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Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by vishnu_ks on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:57AM (#27302496)
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by lalo2302 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:18AM (#27302715)
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!

Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by vishnu_ks on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:34AM (#27302890)
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 :)
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by abdusco on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:42AM (#27303720)
https://ma.tt I wonder how much that domain costs. 2-letter domains are always sold at a premium regardless of TLD.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by vishnu_ks on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:52PM (#27305175)
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 :)

Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by vishnu_ks on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:39PM (#27305819)
Ahh. Another coincidence. It's 18 years today since the first wordpres release was made by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by sneak on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:02AM (#27303955)
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.

Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by thiht on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:36AM (#27312697)
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
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by jrochkind1 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:26AM (#27304227)
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

Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by vishnu_ks on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:42PM (#27305084)
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.

Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by jrochkind1 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:10PM (#27307694)
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!

Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by polote on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:55AM (#27303887)
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
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by vishnu_ks on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:43PM (#27305101)
Cool. I will go through them and ones that looks interesting :)
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by pluppen on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:27PM (#27305644)
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!
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by AriseAndPass on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:32AM (#27314112)
I really like the look of diff.blog , signed up! Is there any way to subscribe to my feed as an RSS feed?
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by vishnu_ks on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:46PM (#27319067)
Don't have a feature for that at the moment but I have added it to my todolist.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by sneak on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:58AM (#27303913)
Tried out diff.blog but it doesn't render anything but the header with javascript off.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by vishnu_ks on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:44PM (#27305105)
Yeah. Sorry. I haven't done any work to make load it without JS :(
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by cacois on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:25AM (#27302780)
This is a great idea - signed up :)
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? by vishnu_ks on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:40AM (#27302958)
Thank you :)