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On a slight tangent, I love reading the first posts of a blog. Especially when the subsequent posts are about the person building or designing said blog. It it

On a slight tangent, I love reading the first posts of a blog. Especially when the subsequent posts are about the person building or designing said blog. It it’s really hard to find those kinds of posts or blogs. All the results on google are blog spam articles about making money with a blog. Can anyone recommend some? Here’s one of my favourite examples. https://destroytoday.com/blog/hello-world https://destroytoday.com/blog/hello-world

hpb42 3y ago
I recently redesigned mine, here's the post about it: https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/rewriting-in-rust/ https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/rewriting-in-rust/ And if you look a list of all entries, there's my "hello world" there as well.
manuelmoreale 3y ago
I started collecting personal blogs on my site. You can find links here https://manuelmoreale.com/personal-blogs https://manuelmoreale.com/personal-blogs At that point you can just go to the first entry and see if it’s something that’s of interest to you. I also collected some 1000+ sites on https://theforest.link https://theforest.link and I’d say a solid 80% are probably personal blogs. So hopefully there’s at least a few of those firsts posts you’re talking about in there.
- rambambram 3y ago
  Nice list and blog you have. You now have one subscriber more to your RSS feed. By the way, I disagree with your stance on RSS excerpts. ;)
  - manuelmoreale 3y ago
    Can you tell me why? I’m always interested in hearing from people with different opinions.
    - rambambram 3y ago
      Well, I really get your point. If I would use RSS mainly for it's newspaper-like newsreader function, excerpts would indeed be the last thing I want. Just give me the full article, in that case. I foresee another function for RSS. I call it Really Social Sites, and what I do with it is more like a timeline. A timeline that you see at regular social media. My site offers it's own feed to the web, but it also has a reader-function where I follow all kinds of websites. So far nothing different. Except that I can only see short excerpts from the sites I follow. I do this on purpose, because I think it's important to visit the site. I think it's respectful, because people put effort in their sites, people want to know - at least a little bit - how many visitors they had, maybe also where these visitors came from. And from a user point of view, while visiting somebody's website you might stumble upon something unexpectedly nice. One might be compelled to leave a message for the site owner on some contact form after a good article. Etc.
      - manuelmoreale 3y ago
        Thank you for explaining this. I see what you mean and it’s great that you want to take the extra step to actually visit the site rather than consuming content directly on the feed. It’s something I also do I’d say 70% of the time. Some sites are just too enjoyable to browse and I prefer to read there. Others are not so great (bad typography and bad colors can make the reading experience very unpleasant) and I read on my RSS in those cases. Which is why I think full content in rss feeds should be the way to go. It allows me to chose how to consume the content. If you only serve excerpts I have no other option but to read on the site even if the reading experience is terrible. Maybe the solution here is to have two feeds?
- croutonwagon 3y ago
  I like your blog setup.I use HTMLy for mine. Though the recent iteration seems to have a few bugs i need to go back and fix (im not the creator of HTMLy, but i like the fact that its all php and .md files, not database etc) I cant bring myself to talk about much more than stuff i build or do in tech in mine. I'm too concerned with me saying something controversial and it causing me issues in the real world. And sometimes even struggle to post. No one reads it so its fine though. I find it helps me parse out my thoughts. I did go ahead and add mine to your list though. https://www.htmly.com/ https://www.htmly.com/
  - manuelmoreale 3y ago
    > I'm too concerned with me saying something controversial and it causing me issues in the real world. I can't obviously comment on this since I don't know about your specific situation. My experience is that as long as you try to be honest and open to dialogue, online interactions are great. I had my blog since 2017 and I had nothing but enjoyable conversations with people via email.

hpb42 3y ago

I recently redesigned mine, here's the post about it: https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/rewriting-in-rust/ https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/rewriting-in-rust/ And if you look a list of all entries, there's my "hello world" there as well.

manuelmoreale 3y ago

I started collecting personal blogs on my site. You can find links here https://manuelmoreale.com/personal-blogs https://manuelmoreale.com/personal-blogs At that point you can just go to the first entry and see if it’s something that’s of interest to you. I also collected some 1000+ sites on https://theforest.link https://theforest.link and I’d say a solid 80% are probably personal blogs. So hopefully there’s at least a few of those firsts posts you’re talking about in there.

rambambram 3y ago
Nice list and blog you have. You now have one subscriber more to your RSS feed. By the way, I disagree with your stance on RSS excerpts. ;)
- manuelmoreale 3y ago
  Can you tell me why? I’m always interested in hearing from people with different opinions.
  - rambambram 3y ago
    Well, I really get your point. If I would use RSS mainly for it's newspaper-like newsreader function, excerpts would indeed be the last thing I want. Just give me the full article, in that case. I foresee another function for RSS. I call it Really Social Sites, and what I do with it is more like a timeline. A timeline that you see at regular social media. My site offers it's own feed to the web, but it also has a reader-function where I follow all kinds of websites. So far nothing different. Except that I can only see short excerpts from the sites I follow. I do this on purpose, because I think it's important to visit the site. I think it's respectful, because people put effort in their sites, people want to know - at least a little bit - how many visitors they had, maybe also where these visitors came from. And from a user point of view, while visiting somebody's website you might stumble upon something unexpectedly nice. One might be compelled to leave a message for the site owner on some contact form after a good article. Etc.
    - manuelmoreale 3y ago
      Thank you for explaining this. I see what you mean and it’s great that you want to take the extra step to actually visit the site rather than consuming content directly on the feed. It’s something I also do I’d say 70% of the time. Some sites are just too enjoyable to browse and I prefer to read there. Others are not so great (bad typography and bad colors can make the reading experience very unpleasant) and I read on my RSS in those cases. Which is why I think full content in rss feeds should be the way to go. It allows me to chose how to consume the content. If you only serve excerpts I have no other option but to read on the site even if the reading experience is terrible. Maybe the solution here is to have two feeds?
croutonwagon 3y ago
I like your blog setup.I use HTMLy for mine. Though the recent iteration seems to have a few bugs i need to go back and fix (im not the creator of HTMLy, but i like the fact that its all php and .md files, not database etc) I cant bring myself to talk about much more than stuff i build or do in tech in mine. I'm too concerned with me saying something controversial and it causing me issues in the real world. And sometimes even struggle to post. No one reads it so its fine though. I find it helps me parse out my thoughts. I did go ahead and add mine to your list though. https://www.htmly.com/ https://www.htmly.com/
- manuelmoreale 3y ago
  > I'm too concerned with me saying something controversial and it causing me issues in the real world. I can't obviously comment on this since I don't know about your specific situation. My experience is that as long as you try to be honest and open to dialogue, online interactions are great. I had my blog since 2017 and I had nothing but enjoyable conversations with people via email.