Recently I discovered a couple blogs with interesting content and it reminded me of how the web used to be. So I ask what blogs do you follow and what topics do they cover?
Man, I should find a bunch of blogs etc, get an rss reader and read those instead of doom scrolling memes and garbage.
Awesome, just followed Mullvad and Selfh.st. Some you might be interested in (maybe you already read them!) :
- cloudflare
- netflix techblog -BBC R&D
I was already aware of noted, but I’ll look into the others. Out of curiosity what RSS reader(s) do you use? I haven’t yet decided on using one.
Cool, since its got a docker image I’ll probably set it up for myself soon.
Diary of an Autodidact — A California lawyer with a love for the great outdoors reviews both books and national parks… but mostly wrote a very insightful and incisive series of longform essays on the interactions between Evangelical Christianity and US politics. He’s gotten a bit bitter and grumpy recently, but remains worth reading, albeit with teaspoon of salt.
https://hackaday.com/ is the only blog that has stood the test of time for me, been reading it for 15 years.
A couple more:
- BBC R&D. They don’t post very often, but what they do post is often extremely cool and high quality. E.g. Deploying the world’s first large scale temporary private 5g network for broadcasting UHD video of the King Charles’ coronation
- Project Perfect Mod - old school command and Conquer blog, Banshee that runs it is still posting on the daily, I don’t know how he does it.
- Cloudflare - interesting tech and case studies
- Google Cloud - same as above
- The Conversation - super interesting crowd-sourced blog written by scientists and researchers in all sorts of topics, generally very well written
One blog that inspired this post for me was https://www.ribbonfarm.com/. It is hard to pin down a single topic it covers, but I would say it tries to make sense of the ways people and ideas interact by breaking them down into different categories to understand how they think and view the world. Some topics include the social mechanics of the workplace and home, how people conceptually deal with the unknown, and conflict resolution.
I have no recommendations at the moment but I’d like to know some tips on how to start a blog and promote them in this current day and age, especially if it’s about a niche subject.
