[vishnu_ks]

A couple of my favorite blogs

- http://antirez.com/

- https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing

- https://ma.tt/

- https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/

- https://jvns.ca/

- https://www.johndcook.com/blog

- http://feross.org/

- https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/

- https://blog.andrewcantino.com/

- https://nickcraver.com/blog/

- https://blog.acolyer.org

- https://blog.codinghorror.com

I have been also building a developer blog aggregator called 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]

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]

Thanks! There is an FAQ at 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 :)

[abdusco]

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

[vishnu_ks]

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/

Interesting conincidence, the .blog TLD used by diff.blog, is owned by Automattic, the company started by Matt Mullenweg :)

[vishnu_ks]

Ahh. Another coincidence. It's 18 years today since the first wordpres release was made by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.

[sneak]

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.

[thiht]

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

[jrochkind1]

I maintain a feed aggregator focused only on ruby at 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

[vishnu_ks]

Hey, rubyland was one of the inspirations for diff.blog. Thanks for building it :)

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. 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

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]

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!

[polote]

You may check 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]

Cool. I will go through them and ones that looks interesting :)

[pluppen]

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]

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]

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

[sneak]

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

[vishnu_ks]

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

[cacois]

This is a great idea - signed up :)

[vishnu_ks]

Thank you :)