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Show HN: An opinionated aggregator for technical blogs written by individuals
- lwb 6y agoThe Ask HN thread from last week about blogs was really enlightening for me, showing me a lot of people's work and opinions that I wouldn't otherwise have seen. In the spirit of distilling some of the best blogs from that thread, I created a simple Rails app that scrapes a list of blogs and provides them in a place where people can vote and comment on them. Someone made the comment that they wished there was a version of Hacker News but just for individual blogs. This is my first stab at creating a place where people can find high-quality technical blogs written primarily by people. You can see this is in the "about" page of aggregate.blog, but I'll reproduce my criteria for adding a blog the aggregator here: - Primarily about tech/programming, but other technical topics are welcome on occasion - Can't be mostly tutorial posts or how-tos - No company blogs - Needs an RSS or Atom feed - New blogs are welcome once they reach at least 5 total posts - Most recent post is less than a year old - No more than two posts on any given day maximum - Prefer blogs that are self-hosted (that is, not on Medium/Wordpress/Substack/etc) - Cannot be behind a paywall - No content allowed that is illegal, pornographic, violent, NSFW, racist, homophobic, et cetera Blog discoverability is still a problem in the age of social media consolidation -- this is certainly not the only approach but I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!