Please help me find better blogs to read

Sick and tired of standard narratives about DeepSeek or some asinine political theater. I just wanna enjoy the things I read.

Recommend blogs to read along: Computer Science Design (Art, typography, anything) Philosophy (more along the lines of what Aeon.co does) Space (I want to study astronomy and astrophysics, but any blogs around space travel, or alien theory is greatly appreciated) History (especially how it influences daily culture, such as Nasi Goreng being a staple in Netherlands owing to colonialism. No WW2 pls. I get that it was important, but there is more to history) Literature Music

Will really appreciate any reccos

smokel · 7 months ago

Have you tried reading books instead? Shaping thoughts typically takes a lot of time, and blogs may not be the best medium to find interesting information.

boringg · 7 months ago

Agree with this - you lose maybe some of the moment in a book but you normally make up for it in depth if the writer is talented. Too much of the blog world is driven by current events as they constantly have to product to maintain readership.

iwatog · 7 months ago

I was hoping for more content that is not time constrained, like say eyeondesign, aeon.co, etc

iwatog · 7 months ago

I read 40-50 pages on a daily basis. This was to stop scrolling LinkedIn and X. Thank you for the suggestion, I absolutely agree with this

popcar2 · 7 months ago

You may enjoy sites like Minifeed[1], Kagi's SmallWeb[2] and Wiby[3]. These are some neat sites that let you discover random blogs and personal sites and are very fun to sift through and read something interesting.

Since we're self-promoting, feel free to check out my blog too :) https://popcar.bearblog.dev/

[1]: https://minifeed.net/

[2]: https://kagi.com/smallweb

[3]: https://wiby.me/

abruno3860 · 7 months ago

Minifeed is great but without some sort of sort by popularity there's just too much noise.

freetonik · 7 months ago

Minifeed author here: I'm cautiously working on some popularity/quality sorting.

xrd · 7 months ago

(See my comment about using RSS in another thread...)

I think filtering by HN front page, and then filtering out the items you want in an RSS feed is a good combination that makes it easier to filter out the noise.

iwatog · 7 months ago

Thank you!

sitkack · 7 months ago

I'd recommend going to a library or bookstore. Esp one with literary magazines.

iwatog · 7 months ago

Looks like I actually do need to do this

seumars · 7 months ago

This is the only correct suggestion

ziddoap · 7 months ago

Libraries and books are great.

They are not the only "correct" way to read about topics you enjoy, though. (Whatever "correct" even means when it comes to personal enjoyment.)

acaloiar · 7 months ago

Previous thread of HN users' personal blogs [1].

HN users are interested in very diverse topics.

Someone put together an OPML feed of all of them, but I can't seem to find it.

[edit]

Found the OPML [2]

[1.] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

[2.] https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs

lawn · 7 months ago

It's almost like you're asking for self-promotion, so I'll try. Here's a few entry points:

How to build a tree-sitter grammar: https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/03/19/lets_create_a_tr...

How I built a custom keyboard with a trackball: https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/11/26/building_my_ulti...

How I designed a custom keyboard layout: https://www.jonashietala.se/series/t-34/

A long series on how I built my first 3D printer: https://www.jonashietala.se/series/voron_trident/

I've been blogging with varying levels of quality for 15 years about random things.

xrd · 7 months ago

I'm trying to do less browsing and more intentional reading. RSS works great for this. There is a bit of overwhelm for me in filtering out the right things in a RSS feed. But, generally the work is filtering out posts I don't want, as opposed to filter out the spam and ads I don't want when I'm browsing without intention.

https://RSS.surf (I built this) gathers up the RSS feeds for anything that makes it to the front page of HN. It gathers up interesting blogs, lets me quickly assess if they are useful and interesting, and then easily subscribe. It's been a good transition from browsing HN to getting more intentional.

If you sign up using the login button in the top right, rss.surf will email you a summary of the RSS feeds for the prior day (you can see examples of prior summaries by clicking "see past emails").

FreshRSS is integrated (https://reader.rss.surf) so you can click to subscribe, or just use your own feed reader.

mickeyp · 7 months ago

My blog on emacs [1] is perhaps a bit too niche if you dislike emacs? I do write a lot about tree sitter, structured editing and movement in programming languages on it also.

[1] www.masteringemacs.org

skydhash · 7 months ago

Thanks for the blog. Your book was an excellent starting point for me getting into emacs (vim for 7 years before) and your articles contains solid tips. I usually reread some of the articles as my understanding of emacs deepens.

mickeyp · 7 months ago

Thanks for your kind words!

iwatog · 7 months ago

One day, I will finally understand emacs, and then we can probably get a cup of virtual coffee

SorrisoAmarelo · 7 months ago

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