Please help me find better blogs to read
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·February 4, 2025smokel
Have you tried reading books instead? Shaping thoughts typically takes a lot of time, and blogs may not be the best medium to find interesting information.
boringg
Agree with this - you lose maybe some of the moment in a book but you normally make up for it in depth if the writer is talented. Too much of the blog world is driven by current events as they constantly have to product to maintain readership.
popcar2
You may enjoy sites like Minifeed[1], Kagi's SmallWeb[2] and Wiby[3]. These are some neat sites that let you discover random blogs and personal sites and are very fun to sift through and read something interesting.
Since we're self-promoting, feel free to check out my blog too :) https://popcar.bearblog.dev/
[2]: https://kagi.com/smallweb
[3]: https://wiby.me/
abruno3860
Minifeed is great but without some sort of sort by popularity there's just too much noise.
xrd
(See my comment about using RSS in another thread...)
I think filtering by HN front page, and then filtering out the items you want in an RSS feed is a good combination that makes it easier to filter out the noise.
sitkack
I'd recommend going to a library or bookstore. Esp one with literary magazines.
DamnInteresting
Myself and a small group of curious souls have been sharing links here for years:
https://www.damninteresting.com/curated-links/
We mainly share articles on science, history, psychology, philosophy, true crime, interactives, and other such stuff. We avoid politics as much as feasible. I just checked, and we're coming up on 42,000 links in the catalog so far. Yowza.
derbOac
I'm curious about some of the suggestions people might have.
For art and design I subscribe to newsletters from Dezeen, Hyperallergic, and Artnet, among others, like local museums. Dezeen articles I usually like to read; the other two I don't read the articles of as often but when they do have things I'm interested in, I'm really interested in them. Smithsonian News is also good, not just for art but history as well. I regularly read that.
I should probably look into similar things from foreign museums or museums out of state.
Strangely enough, I also really like Google's Art and Culture app? I probably don't use it as much as I should, or as much as I like it. I kind of forget about it unfortunately. Sometimes it can be kind of superficial but it has a lot of content and alerts me to things I wouldn't otherwise see, and the articles can be just the right balance of length and depth.
I've found that newsletters are helpful just in terms of being reminded of blogs. I probably get too much email but it also pushes me to unsubscribe from things I don't like. Most of the noise is from retail business too and not blogs or nonprofits.
For books I should probably keep track of better but I like NY RoB, Los Angeles RoB, Paris Book Review off the top of my head. Guardian Books is a newspaper but one I track.
I also have found it really useful to pay attention to publishers and presses you like and subscribe to updates from them. They're not blogs per se but you can often get newsletters with new publications. In addition to The New York Review of Books, for instance, there's also the New York Review Books, which sends out newsletters about books they're releasing that I often find interesting.
acaloiar
Previous thread of HN users' personal blogs [1].
HN users are interested in very diverse topics.
Someone put together an OPML feed of all of them, but I can't seem to find it.
[edit]
Found the OPML [2]
[1.] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081
[2.] https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs
mickeyp
My blog on emacs [1] is perhaps a bit too niche if you dislike emacs? I do write a lot about tree sitter, structured editing and movement in programming languages on it also.
[1] www.masteringemacs.org
vigneshesan
There are enormous amount of aggregators who compile blogs and articles across the web. As a person who looks for new things to read, this is how I get my fresh feeds.
1. Mozilla Firefox Start Page - Shows blogs and articles from Pocket
2. Google Chrome Discover [Mobile] - Tuned to my interest and search result
3. HackerNews - Of-course not to be missed
4. daily.dev - using it for 450+ days, its fresh and aggregates various format contents
5. RSS Reader - I have subscribed to few RSS feeds based on my exploration and areas of interest
6. News Letters - Find some interesting newsletters from individuals and companies that align with you
Though these are not direct recommendation of blogs to read but a diverse medium to help you pull in more distributed and fresh content to keep you up to date
May The Force Be With You :)
diggan
> 4. daily.dev - using it for 450+ days, its fresh and aggregates various format contents
Strange signup form they have. Never been asked for "Original Language" before, not sure what it means. Shouldn't it be just "Language"? Why does the first language you spoke matter?
The form validation is also broken, saying there is a incorrect character in the username when the actual error is that it's too short. The error messages aren't clearly errors (looks like normal text) and finally if you have a form validation error and already passed the Cloudflare captcha, you can never pass the form and need to reload to be able to submit again.
I get that forms are hard, I've struggled with them myself a lot as well. But a little more care could have gone into it, or at least reacting to seeing people struggling at that page, if it now been running for more than a year. It gives kind of a poor impression when it's a community specifically for engineers/developers, that they don't really have any attention to details.
xrd
I'm trying to do less browsing and more intentional reading. RSS works great for this. There is a bit of overwhelm for me in filtering out the right things in a RSS feed. But, generally the work is filtering out posts I don't want, as opposed to filter out the spam and ads I don't want when I'm browsing without intention.
https://RSS.surf (I built this) gathers up the RSS feeds for anything that makes it to the front page of HN. It gathers up interesting blogs, lets me quickly assess if they are useful and interesting, and then easily subscribe. It's been a good transition from browsing HN to getting more intentional.
If you sign up using the login button in the top right, rss.surf will email you a summary of the RSS feeds for the prior day (you can see examples of prior summaries by clicking "see past emails").
FreshRSS is integrated (https://reader.rss.surf) so you can click to subscribe, or just use your own feed reader.
FumblingBear
This is pretty obscure, but I've found the more niche, the more I enjoy a blog. [0] It's a series of posts on a blog called Taskerland (written by Moreau Vazh) that do some literary analysis on classic works of horror, specifically, the works of Thomas Ligotti and H.P. Lovecraft.
If you enjoy short form horror stories, and want to read someone's interpretation of the themes and background of some horror with substantial literary merit, it might be worth a shot! It actually encouraged me to start my own blog, doing something similar—though I'm still in the early stages of writing it.
kradeelav
just a sampling of my rss reader this morning:
marginalia's blog for interesting tech problems building a search engine "specifically" for indie/small/old-web sites. (the search engine itself is a gold mine for exactly what you're looking for). https://www.marginalia.nu/log/
feuilleton for thoughtful posts on recent niche art history - http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/feed/
the spatial heritage review for advances in 3D models from an educational context https://nebulousflynn.substack.com/
SorrisoAmarelo
Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform: https://join-lemmy.org/
Oldschool bloglist: https://webring.xxiivv.com/
Sick and tired of standard narratives about DeepSeek or some asinine political theater. I just wanna enjoy the things I read.
Recommend blogs to read along: Computer Science Design (Art, typography, anything) Philosophy (more along the lines of what Aeon.co does) Space (I want to study astronomy and astrophysics, but any blogs around space travel, or alien theory is greatly appreciated) History (especially how it influences daily culture, such as Nasi Goreng being a staple in Netherlands owing to colonialism. No WW2 pls. I get that it was important, but there is more to history) Literature Music
Will really appreciate any reccos