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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by tinyprojects on Monday September 20, 2021 @06:52AM (#28592317)
I've built a service that lets you create a micro-blog from a paper journal: https://paperwebsite.com/

It's given me great joy just publishing my unfiltered thoughts on the internet straight from my pen, which sounds similar to the "unfocused blogs" the author was talking about.

Perhaps in this highly edited, Instagram world we now live in - the raw, unedited nature of a blog is a bit more scary. I still love them though.

Here's my blog if you're interested: https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by slightknack on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:00AM (#28592377)
I vote that we add our blogs / other good blogs we have come across as children on this comment. I'll start, here's mine:

- https://slightknack.dev/blog

Here are some others:

- https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com

- https://www.gwern.net/index

- https://danluu.com

- https://tonsky.me/

- https://lemire.me/blog/

- https://waitbutwhy.com/

- https://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/

- https://blog.codinghorror.com/

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by marginalia_nu on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:36AM (#28592652)
I collect links to small and notable websites here. It's like 90% blogs:

https://memex.marginalia.nu/links/bookmarks.gmi

I think we've gotten curiously bad at linking to other websites in the last 20 years. It's really bad for discoverability. I don't know why it is, it's like everyone goes "oh, i've got a precious visitor at last, better not link anywhere so they'll stick around forever!"

I think if my website contains interesting links, it makes people more likely to come back later, because they associate it with good feelings of discovery, and not bad feelings of being trapped.

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by nickjj on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:41AM (#28592688)
I have one at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/

I've been at it for over 6 years and there's around 350 posts. It's a mixture of written blog posts and YouTube videos. The general focus is on building and deploying web applications as well as dev environment tweaks. Basically everything I encounter as a developer.

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by scary-size on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:17AM (#28592504)
Here are mine:

- https://franz.hamburg

- https://www.project-daily.com

Some blogs I follow via RSS (using the awesome NetNewsWire app):

- https://brendangregg.com

- https://brandur.org/

- https://ferd.ca/

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by Digit-Al on Monday September 20, 2021 @02:33PM (#28597129)
I'll bite and submit mine. Las year, during lockdown, I read the Rolling Stone 100 greatest metal albums list. As I was stuck at home most of the time and had nothing better to do I decided to listen to all 100 albums and write my thoughts on each one. I originally posted them to Facebook, but as Facebook is a crap environment to write longer form content I wrote each one into a text note and pasted it to Facebook when I had finished writing it. When I had finished I thought it would be good to put them into a blog so it would be easier to revisit them later if I wanted to.

https://www.pandelon.co.uk/blog

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by asicsp on Monday September 20, 2021 @09:18AM (#28593472)
Here's mine: https://learnbyexample.github.io/ (mostly about regex and cli one-liners)

Here's some lists of blogs (mostly programming oriented):

* https://jvns.ca/blogroll/

* https://blogsurf.io/blogs

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by bodge5000 on Monday September 20, 2021 @11:12AM (#28594662)
I dont regularly follow blogs as often as I should, but I always recommend this one to people interested

https://iquilezles.org/www/index.htm

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by fsflover on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:23AM (#28592548)
Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by criddell on Monday September 20, 2021 @09:20AM (#28593491)
I think https://micro.blog is worth checking out as well. Manton Reece has done some really great work trying to support the indie web.
Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by dflock on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:36PM (#28611370)
Here's my little blog: http://duncanlock.test/
Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by bodge5000 on Monday September 20, 2021 @11:14AM (#28594683)
I remember reading your 8-bit MMO post a few years ago and loved it, and frequently come back to it when I feel like a project is running out of control

Love the look of paper website as well, right now I use bearblog but I would like to use paper a bit more

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by dflock on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:32PM (#28611352)
The https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/ blog doesn't have a working feed?