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I follow a lot of what I call 'dev blogs' via RSS from a lot of people here on HN. My subscription list is hundreds of websites long by now (probably 350), coll

I follow a lot of what I call 'dev blogs' via RSS from a lot of people here on HN. My subscription list is hundreds of websites long by now (probably 350), collected over two years or so. I sometimes try to only visit blogs this way for a day, and it's refreshing. No algorithms, no ads. Usually very good and interesting content, all these people have skin in the game by having a domain name, a website and effort put into crafting an interesting read. There comes a time where I don't want to visit any 'regular' social media like FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, etc. The open web is already social media. It works for what I want, which is text and images and sometimes a small video.

movedx 3y ago
Nice! Are you willing to share the list somewhere/somehow? Maybe in a Gist?
- rambambram 3y ago
  Definitely. I have this list at heyhomepage.com, at the bottom. Right now, it's a list in HTML, but you can browse it. The accompanying OPML file (basically just a list of RSS feeds) doesn't work at the moment, because it's usually populated one by one when I change something. I made all my subscriptions public at once for your request by changing the database. In the future this OPML file will contain all the feeds, with my categories and all. The HTML list contains 900+ feeds, of which more than onethird is what I call a 'dev blog'. But I also found a lot of interesting sites/feeds on HN that I put in other categories, like 'art n design', 'bizz n marketing', 'philosophy n life, 'science n history', etc. You get the gist (pun intended). The category 'photo feeds' is also interesting. It contains feeds with an image in the <enclosure> tag, which makes for a more lively feed when I browse it in the RSS reader of Hey Homepage (my website system for small businesses and individuals). If you send me a message on the contactform over there, I can reply with an .sql file by mail which contains everything. Might be easier for you to transform it into something workable. Also, very recently this kind of blogroll/webring was done by other people on HN. It contains user-uploaded blogs and feeds from HN users. You might want to search for that. My guess is there is a lot of overlap between my list and theirs. Edit: Right now, the HTML list doesn't contain the categories I added. If you really want that, I can add it quickly within a day or so. Also, there's no personal info in the list (it was private), but if you happen to find something, please let me know. ;)

movedx 3y ago

Nice! Are you willing to share the list somewhere/somehow? Maybe in a Gist?

rambambram 3y ago
Definitely. I have this list at heyhomepage.com, at the bottom. Right now, it's a list in HTML, but you can browse it. The accompanying OPML file (basically just a list of RSS feeds) doesn't work at the moment, because it's usually populated one by one when I change something. I made all my subscriptions public at once for your request by changing the database. In the future this OPML file will contain all the feeds, with my categories and all. The HTML list contains 900+ feeds, of which more than onethird is what I call a 'dev blog'. But I also found a lot of interesting sites/feeds on HN that I put in other categories, like 'art n design', 'bizz n marketing', 'philosophy n life, 'science n history', etc. You get the gist (pun intended). The category 'photo feeds' is also interesting. It contains feeds with an image in the <enclosure> tag, which makes for a more lively feed when I browse it in the RSS reader of Hey Homepage (my website system for small businesses and individuals). If you send me a message on the contactform over there, I can reply with an .sql file by mail which contains everything. Might be easier for you to transform it into something workable. Also, very recently this kind of blogroll/webring was done by other people on HN. It contains user-uploaded blogs and feeds from HN users. You might want to search for that. My guess is there is a lot of overlap between my list and theirs. Edit: Right now, the HTML list doesn't contain the categories I added. If you really want that, I can add it quickly within a day or so. Also, there's no personal info in the list (it was private), but if you happen to find something, please let me know. ;)