Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?

gwbas1c · 4 years ago

(Joke) I'm kind of surprised that Hacker News readers are into goats! My cousin runs a goat company, and she's not the kind of person who'd read Hacker News. (She rents out her goats to remove problematic vegetation, like poison ivy and invasive vines.)

According to Google, "GOAT Blogs" are blogs about goats: https://www.google.com/search?q=GOAT+blog&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS99...

Suggestion (edited): Edit the post just enough to explain that GOAT stands for "Greatest of all time." For example: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of the GOAT (Greatest of all Time) blogs? If you do can you please share?

deafpiano · 4 years ago

I'm honestly more interested in your cousin's goat farm then the original post of this blog now.

gwbas1c · 4 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32191678

(Humor on Hacker News is hard. I thought if I made two joke posts about goats, at least one would get modded up enough to undo the downvotes from the other.)

reaperducer · 4 years ago

Back at the beginning of the pandemic, there was a farm that would rent goats to appear on your Zoom meetings. You'd PayPal them something like 20 bucks, and e-mail the meeting code/link and a goat would show up.

I always thought that was the GOAT use of goats.

dogline · 4 years ago

That'd still be a cool service.

ambirex · 4 years ago

About five years ago, I took my kids to a petting zoo with baby animals. I was so struck by how cute baby goats were. I couldn't shake the feeling that I had made fundamentally wrong choices in my life because I didn't have more time with baby goats.

This is my current daydream to own goats (because that's probably the best way to get consistent access to baby goats). I was specifically looking at the breed of Nigerian dwarf goats. There would be cheesemaking, vegetation clearing, and current dreams also include an apiary.

Ahhhh.... goats.

mathgladiator · 4 years ago

My wife and went to a farm to look at baby goats, then we adopted them. They are fantastic creatures. Sadly, their genetics were awful, and the boys urethra blocked. The girl became hormonal and very aggressive towards women (I was the only one that could interact with her since I could handle it, and she would rub on me).

gumby · 4 years ago

You took your kids to the zoo and were struck by how cute the kids were. So other peoples’ kids are cute too?

gwbas1c · 4 years ago

My cousin started her goat business about five years ago. It took some time and patience, but now it's successful.

It helps that my cousin is quite the animal lover, went to vet school, and also works part time in a veterinarian's office.

a_t48 · 4 years ago

I’ve been trying to rent this exact service, but the most popular guy in my area is also apparently a flake

tomxor · 4 years ago

A flake? this is getting too much, i don't even know what a goat is supposed to mean yet.

jancsika · 4 years ago

This is genius.

Goats eat, say, English Ivy leaves, but they obviously don't eat all the roots.

English Ivy quickly grows back (even with mere inches of roots).

This requires another round of goats.

Goats-as-a-service subscription ftw!

Next obvious step would be some kind of goat-friendly muzzle on a few of the goats and a $9.99 "turbo" upcharge that unlocks the muzzles.

Edit: I think upcharge should instead "unlock up to 8 goat cores"

gumby · 4 years ago

Goats as a service does exist. Caltrans deloys them to maintain vegetation.

HeyLaughingBoy · 4 years ago

Get pigs: they'll uproot everything in sight!

netsharc · 4 years ago

Old fart moment: rolling my eyes when "GOAT" enters the vocabulary of HN users (well at least 1 user, the OP).

mdp2021 · 4 years ago

> Old

Rolling your eyes for the term of a kid /J

("Kid" being originally "young goat".)

culi · 4 years ago

In 1992, Lonnie Ali, Muhammad Ali’s wife, incorporated G.O.A.T. Inc

Dead Comment

ftk_ · 4 years ago

Little known but you can "subscribe" to YouTube channels without Google account by using RSS https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=${channe...

bhrgunatha · 4 years ago

In fact there are 3 RSS feed types

User : https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=<XXX>

Channel : https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<XXX>

Playlist : https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<XXX>

rakshithbellare · 4 years ago

thanks, but the feeds are not updated, it looks like? for example https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=mkbhd lists some old videos!

curious_cat_163 · 4 years ago

Are there any apps (other than Google’s own) that use these?

timbit42 · 4 years ago

Any RSS app can use these feeds.

gwbas1c · 4 years ago

Central mass goat rental: https://centralmagoatrental.com/

https://www.facebook.com/centralmassgoatrental/

benou · 4 years ago

I could not find any RSS feed on their website though

gwbas1c · 4 years ago

Does the Facebook page have rss?

whoisthemachine · 4 years ago

In the spirit of "GOAT", there's a great mini-golf course in Minnesota that has goats on it... http://bigstoneminigolf.com/?ID=OA

nikivi · 4 years ago

I do here: https://wiki.nikiv.dev/research/blogs#favorite-blogs

As RSS here: https://gist.github.com/nikitavoloboev/63b5d2418122fcd6949d8...

pluijzer · 4 years ago

That is a huge list. In what way do you consume this? I would feel overwhelmed following this many blogs. How much value would you say you get from following this many blogs?

xpil · 4 years ago

I agree - the list is truly impressive. I ran a quick spot-check and it looks like most of these blogs are of medium to low activity. Having 1000 blogs in your RSS reader with an average of 1 article per month per blog results in reading 3 articles per day on average - not bad.

bhrgunatha · 4 years ago

I think of it as a hybrid summary/index of posts from people/blogs I'm interested in.

If there's a post that piques my interest, I'll read the full post - or visit the web page.

_the_inflator · 4 years ago

How cool! Very inspirational.

rakshithbellare · 4 years ago

thank you!

blowski · 4 years ago

For me, GOATs are not as interesting as "people who are a _bit_ more talented than me, but share the same general set of problems". For example, I'm never going to improve my ability play football by watching Lionel Messi. Better to actually talk with a pretty good local coach.

tomxor · 4 years ago

I find goats pretty interesting, they have amazing balance and are great at climbing mountains for instance... skills I would like to improve, maybe I can learn from goats? They also make cute noises.

taylodl · 4 years ago

This is an excellent point and captures the problem well. You're going to learn more from someone who's a couple steps ahead of you than from a GOAT. That's why local meetups can be so valuable.

pluijzer · 4 years ago

Okay I am super curious now. What is a GOAT?

gorjusborg · 4 years ago

I find there is value in both, for me.

Even if Lionel Messi's problems are so far from mine that I can't understand, getting a glimpse into what his set of problems and his mental framework that got him there _could be_ valuable. The mental framework he uses could be something I could use to improve.

I agree, though, that I can't just use advice from someone who is on a whole different level. You can't use a great solution to a problem that doesn't exist in your situation.

haskell_melody · 4 years ago

The best way I've found of discovering new blogs is Thinking About Things (https://www.thinking-about-things.com). I was introduced to it recently and it's introduced me to great new blogs. I like it because it sends one article per email, so it's a slow drop that lets me evaluate each independently, instead of being one giant overwhelming list.

morsch · 4 years ago

I installed an RSS reader on my phone a couple of weeks ago, and I've been pleasantly surprised. All my sites have feeds, and I've replaced compulsively reloading half a dozen websites with occasionally opening a reader app. And having a common interface is nice. I wonder why I stopped using a reader, a decade or so ago.

maneesh · 4 years ago

Probably because they killed Google Reader

cpach · 4 years ago

GOAT = Greatest of all time?

gwbas1c · 4 years ago

Honestly, I looked at this discussion just to know what "GOAT blogs" are.

General rule of thumb with communication: Try to avoid acronyms, because chances are most people will have no idea what you're talking about. If you do need to use them, make sure you very quickly define what the acronym is.

FWIW: Even the Google doesn't know what GOAT blogs are. Searching for GOAT blogs brings up blogs about goats: https://www.google.com/search?q=GOAT+blog&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS99...

matyasrichter · 4 years ago

"goat blog" is not a great query to explain an acronym, though.

mdp2021 · 4 years ago

> General rule of thumb with communication

So this friend of mine is currently reading a history book in French. Full of acronyms, not recognizable in the current international use. SMI, DTS, OPEP, OTAN, OCDE... (Those should have been spared from localization. If born in English, so they should be preserved; in French, the rest should adapt to that - at least in the acronym.)

reaperducer · 4 years ago

Even the Google doesn't know what GOAT blogs

That's because GOAT is a sports term that is slowly entering general use.

If you Google "GOAT sports," Google not only knows what you mean, it explains GOAT.

theandrewbailey · 4 years ago

Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test?

soco · 4 years ago

A Domesticated Species Of Goat-Antelope Typically Kept As Livestock?

brycewray · 4 years ago

Yes, OP forgot/didn't know many HN commenters have nothing to do with sports and, thus, are unaware of this particular acronym.