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Ask HN: Review my weekend project - HackerBlogs
A fellow HNer asked days ago about a place for hackers to share their blogs and I dedicated the last week to work on that project, it has been an interesting experience and I wanted to show you all the result. HackerBlogs is an aggregator specifically taylored for developers and entrepreneurs. Please take a look and let me know what you think.
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoLink: http://www.hackerblogs.com http://www.hackerblogs.com
- someone_here 16y agoAwesome. The colour scheme seems very familiar. What do the numbers mean?
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoI used the same color palette from HackerNews and HackerMonthly, trying to make HackerBlogs part of the family. I hope I don't get sued. Numbers to the left are just clicks, like showing how many times people has clicked on such article. Maybe I'll show a top ten of the day or something.
- adelevie 16y agoGreat idea. I suggest you also give petercooper's coder.io a look. It's amazing for Ruby/Rails news, but I'm sure it's great for other topics.
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoI saw coder.io on HackerMonthly as I was working on HB, great source of inspiration.
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoI hope you all help me grow the site by just registering your blogs, no need to create accounts or anything annoying, just enter your blog address and I'll fetch your feeds everyday for new content. Only personal blogs, no meta-aggregators or commercial blogs will be allowed, so no techcrunch, digg, reddit, et al. That will help reduce the marketing noise, fud and payperpost we get all the time inundating our beloved news sites. HackerBlogs: for hackers, by hackers.
- mdg 16y agoWhat is the stack? Just curious.
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoPython on AppEngine. Zero headaches.
- singer 16y agoGreat idea. However, the site does not render properly in IE8.
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoI know, sorry about that, IE doesn't support custom tags and HackerBlogs use them everywhere. It is just a personal attempt at my own version of HTML6. Take a look at the source code. In the future I'll change all custom tags to ugly divs again.
- gcampbell 16y agoI believe you can work around this in IE by using document.createElement() in the head for any custom tag you want to use - see http://html5doctor.com/how-to-get-html5-working-in-ie-and-firefox-2/ http://html5doctor.com/how-to-get-html5-working-in-ie-and-fi....
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoThanks for the pointer, I'll try to fix it and see how it works.
- kno 16y agoThere’s a very good book by Steve Krug about usability: "Don’t make me think". I have a strong feeling that you haven’t read that book, because your make me think so much that I will suggest you work on presentation and colors. Edit: I figure it could be an IE thing --
- JoelMcCracken 16y agoI would actually enjoy a blogging platform that is designed for hackers. Such a platform would need syntax highlighting, latex, etc. There is nothing like this among free blogs. The closest thing is github's jekyll, which does not actually have latex support on the server.
- jaxn 16y agoI know there are syntax highlighting plugins for Serendipity and Wordpress using GeSHi.
- wgj 16y agoOn Wordpress, wp-syntax has worked well for me and uses GeSHi: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/
- raffi 16y agoWordPress.com does latex and syntax highlighting. http://en.support.wordpress.com/latex/ http://en.support.wordpress.com/latex/ http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/
- JoelMcCracken 16y agoIs it free to use? e.g. can you use it on the free blogs provided by wordpress?
- raffi 16y agoyes
- marilyn 16y agoI use and quite like the SyntaxHighlighter for wordpress http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/ http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/
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- adrianwaj 16y agoHappy to provide ~120 feed URLS from http://roomcu.slinkset.com http://roomcu.slinkset.com. Drop me an email.
- tansey 16y agoProbably would be better to show the category tags beside/below the author/comments subtitle. I like it though. Rather than inclusive filtering like you have on the right hand side, is there any way to filter out the categories I don't care about? Maybe I want all of the blogs except Haskell and C#, for instance.
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoThat's in the todo list, I'll implement tags next to the title, easier to know what the article is about. I'll think about remembering your settings, since I really don't want to create accounts and stuff. Not easy to implement without accounts tho.
- mullr 16y agoAn RSS feed would be very useful.
- jgrahamc 16y agoI like this idea a lot. I've registered my blog and will be checking it out. Good luck!