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A couple of my favorite blogs - http://antirez.com/ http://antirez.com/ - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html

A couple of my favorite blogs - http://antirez.com/ http://antirez.com/ - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing - https://ma.tt/ https://ma.tt/ - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ - https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ - https://www.johndcook.com/blog https://www.johndcook.com/blog - http://feross.org/ http://feross.org/ - https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/ https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/ - https://blog.andrewcantino.com/ https://blog.andrewcantino.com/ - https://nickcraver.com/blog/ https://nickcraver.com/blog/ - https://blog.acolyer.org https://blog.acolyer.org - https://blog.codinghorror.com https://blog.codinghorror.com I have been also building a developer blog aggregator called https://diff.blog https://diff.blog to make it super easy to disover and follow dev blogs. Would love if you folks can give it a try :)

lalo2302 5y ago
Hey, I really like diff.blog. I just made an account. A little feedback would be to add an "About page" so I can understand what is it without having to login. And a pat on the back for not abusing Github access permissions. Felt really good to see "email (read-only)" access. Keep the good work!
- vishnu_ks 5y ago
  Thanks! There is an FAQ at https://diff.blog/FAQ/ https://diff.blog/FAQ/. It used to be linked form the left sidebar. But I made a major website redesign a couple of months back, which removed that sidebar. Will add it back soon :)
cacois 5y ago
This is a great idea - signed up :)
- vishnu_ks 5y ago
  Thank you :)
abdusco 5y ago
https://ma.tt https://ma.tt I wonder how much that domain costs. 2-letter domains are always sold at a premium regardless of TLD.
- sneak 5y ago
  Google's featured snippet answer suggests that the owner of that domain has a net worth of $400mm USD. It's indeed a nice flex. I had a cheap five-byte domain once, but the registrar decided one day to up my renewal fee to five figures, so I don't any longer.
- vishnu_ks 5y ago
  Matt Mullenweg actually registered the domain for $500 per year for the first 2 years :) .tt domains are quite expensive in general so I think he got a pretty good deal for ma.tt https://ma.tt/2008/01/on-matt/ https://ma.tt/2008/01/on-matt/ Interesting conincidence, the .blog TLD used by diff.blog, is owned by Automattic, the company started by Matt Mullenweg :)
  - vishnu_ks 5y ago
    Ahh. Another coincidence. It's 18 years today since the first wordpres release was made by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.
- thiht 5y ago
  According to nic.tt it ranges from 600 to 2000$ for 3 years. If the domain was bought on aftermarket, it was probably way more expansive though
polote 5y ago
You may check https://hnblogs.substack.com/ https://hnblogs.substack.com/ if you want to add new blogs. These are usually 'less professional' blogs than the ones you just quoted though
- vishnu_ks 5y ago
  Cool. I will go through them and ones that looks interesting :)
sneak 5y ago
Tried out diff.blog but it doesn't render anything but the header with javascript off.
- vishnu_ks 5y ago
  Yeah. Sorry. I haven't done any work to make load it without JS :(
jrochkind1 5y ago
I maintain a feed aggregator focused only on ruby at http://rubyland.news http://rubyland.news -- doesn't have the interactive/personalization features of yours, you have gone quite a bit furhter! But anyway, is there a way I can suggest blogs to diff.blog? (including my own). Or, if you'd like to just scrape the ones I've already "curated", feel free. http://rubyland.news/sources.opml http://rubyland.news/sources.opml
- vishnu_ks 5y ago
  Hey, rubyland was one of the inspirations for diff.blog. Thanks for building it :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23914685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23914685 > But anyway, is there a way I can suggest blogs to diff.blog? (including my own). Yes. You can suggest new blogs at https://diff.blog/suggest https://diff.blog/suggest. The recommended way to add your own blog is by going to profile settings since that allow you to change the URL as well as refresh the feed. But both are fine :) > Or, if you'd like to just scrape the ones I've already "curated", feel free. http://rubyland.news/sources.opml http://rubyland.news/sources.opml Yeah. I will give it a go one of these days. Hard part is I need to get the GitHub handle of each of these blogs since all the blog in diff.blog should have an associated GitHub account.
  - jrochkind1 5y ago
    Aw, nice! Rubyland.news has been a low-feedback endeavor, I'm never sure anyone has even noticed it, so that's nice to hear! You have definitely taken it a bunch of steps further with diff.blog! I thought about that but definitely didn't have the free-side-project time for it. I love all efforts to keep blogging and RSS feeds alive, in the world of gated social media!
pluppen 5y ago
I've always had a hard time finding new interesting dev blogs but with diff.blog I can stop having that problem! Thanks for it, will be using it from now on!
AriseAndPass 5y ago
I really like the look of diff.blog , signed up! Is there any way to subscribe to my feed as an RSS feed?
- vishnu_ks 5y ago
  Don't have a feature for that at the moment but I have added it to my todolist.

lalo2302 5y ago

Hey, I really like diff.blog. I just made an account. A little feedback would be to add an "About page" so I can understand what is it without having to login. And a pat on the back for not abusing Github access permissions. Felt really good to see "email (read-only)" access. Keep the good work!

vishnu_ks 5y ago
Thanks! There is an FAQ at https://diff.blog/FAQ/ https://diff.blog/FAQ/. It used to be linked form the left sidebar. But I made a major website redesign a couple of months back, which removed that sidebar. Will add it back soon :)

cacois 5y ago

This is a great idea - signed up :)

vishnu_ks 5y ago
Thank you :)

abdusco 5y ago

https://ma.tt https://ma.tt I wonder how much that domain costs. 2-letter domains are always sold at a premium regardless of TLD.

sneak 5y ago
Google's featured snippet answer suggests that the owner of that domain has a net worth of $400mm USD. It's indeed a nice flex. I had a cheap five-byte domain once, but the registrar decided one day to up my renewal fee to five figures, so I don't any longer.
vishnu_ks 5y ago
Matt Mullenweg actually registered the domain for $500 per year for the first 2 years :) .tt domains are quite expensive in general so I think he got a pretty good deal for ma.tt https://ma.tt/2008/01/on-matt/ https://ma.tt/2008/01/on-matt/ Interesting conincidence, the .blog TLD used by diff.blog, is owned by Automattic, the company started by Matt Mullenweg :)
- vishnu_ks 5y ago
  Ahh. Another coincidence. It's 18 years today since the first wordpres release was made by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.
thiht 5y ago
According to nic.tt it ranges from 600 to 2000$ for 3 years. If the domain was bought on aftermarket, it was probably way more expansive though

polote 5y ago

You may check https://hnblogs.substack.com/ https://hnblogs.substack.com/ if you want to add new blogs. These are usually 'less professional' blogs than the ones you just quoted though

vishnu_ks 5y ago
Cool. I will go through them and ones that looks interesting :)

sneak 5y ago

Tried out diff.blog but it doesn't render anything but the header with javascript off.

vishnu_ks 5y ago
Yeah. Sorry. I haven't done any work to make load it without JS :(

jrochkind1 5y ago

I maintain a feed aggregator focused only on ruby at http://rubyland.news http://rubyland.news -- doesn't have the interactive/personalization features of yours, you have gone quite a bit furhter! But anyway, is there a way I can suggest blogs to diff.blog? (including my own). Or, if you'd like to just scrape the ones I've already "curated", feel free. http://rubyland.news/sources.opml http://rubyland.news/sources.opml

vishnu_ks 5y ago
Hey, rubyland was one of the inspirations for diff.blog. Thanks for building it :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23914685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23914685 > But anyway, is there a way I can suggest blogs to diff.blog? (including my own). Yes. You can suggest new blogs at https://diff.blog/suggest https://diff.blog/suggest. The recommended way to add your own blog is by going to profile settings since that allow you to change the URL as well as refresh the feed. But both are fine :) > Or, if you'd like to just scrape the ones I've already "curated", feel free. http://rubyland.news/sources.opml http://rubyland.news/sources.opml Yeah. I will give it a go one of these days. Hard part is I need to get the GitHub handle of each of these blogs since all the blog in diff.blog should have an associated GitHub account.
- jrochkind1 5y ago
  Aw, nice! Rubyland.news has been a low-feedback endeavor, I'm never sure anyone has even noticed it, so that's nice to hear! You have definitely taken it a bunch of steps further with diff.blog! I thought about that but definitely didn't have the free-side-project time for it. I love all efforts to keep blogging and RSS feeds alive, in the world of gated social media!

pluppen 5y ago

I've always had a hard time finding new interesting dev blogs but with diff.blog I can stop having that problem! Thanks for it, will be using it from now on!

AriseAndPass 5y ago

I really like the look of diff.blog , signed up! Is there any way to subscribe to my feed as an RSS feed?

vishnu_ks 5y ago
Don't have a feature for that at the moment but I have added it to my todolist.