How do you decide how much money to allocate to a dependency? Especially in ecosystems like NodeJS where there are 1000s of dependencies for a single project. And most of the dependencies are very small, does trivial things but is used by a vast number of packages.
I have been also building an engineering blog aggregator called https://diff.blog to make it super easy to disover and follow blogs. Would love if you folks can give it a try :)
Really like the aggregator blog! It would be pretty handy to also have a newsletter that will go into my inbox and reading app (Matter is an amazing reading app btw if anyone is searching for one)
Author of the list here. When I started the list 6 years back, the idea was to have a small collection of books that will change your perspective if you read them. But over the years, the list got 350+ pull requests and the number of books increased significantly. I ask the pull requests author why they think the book is mind expanding in the pull request description. If they can write a convincing sentence I would merge them. But ofcourse, what's mind expanding for some is not mind expanding for others. I think the repo now is more like a collection of books that might help you find the next book to read under a particular topic. It might or might not expand your mind. Hopefully going through the list you might atleast find one interesting book to read :)
Thank you for putting the list together! If I may make a suggestion, what you wrote above would be an excellent first paragraph in the readme, as it explains the intent well and the criteria for how you add books to the list.
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 :)
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 :)
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
> 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 :)
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.
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!
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
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!
I have been building an RSS reader for developers called https://diff.blog. It's havily integrated with GitHub. For example, when you sign up, it automatically follows the blog of developers and organizations you are part of. I have been working on it in my spare time during the last 2 years and it has been growing steadily. It has over 1200+ users now. Do give it a try!
I have been building an RSS reader for developers called diff.blog. It has been growing steadily over the last 2 years and crossed 1000 users recently. Would love if you folks could give it a try and give some feedback!
I am building https://diff.blog, an aggregator of developer and engineering blogs. My mission is to solve the disoverability problem of self hosted blogs.
It's hard for bloggers with self hosted blogs to get discovered and reach a big audience. So a lot of them end up moving to a platform like Medium which gives them the audience. But they in turn give up their identity and content. diff.blog aims to fix that by solving the discoverabilty problem of self hosted blogs. diff.blog is not anywhere near in terms of the audience size of Medium at the moment. But it has been growing steadily since I launched it an year before. Hopefully it will come close one day :)
That's a nice service. Do you plan to launch an Android app for the same? I have been using FinBloggers, which serves as a one stop solution for me for finance related blogs. I am searching a similar app for development blogs.
Yes. I do want to monetize the project so that there is incentive for me to keep working on it for a long time. My current plan is to allow companies to post job openings on the site and charge them for that. I think it's a win win for both the readers and the companies.
I want to open source the project at some point. My full time job is working for an open source project. Open source projects require a lot of time and attention from the maintainers to make it sucessfull. I am not ready for that yet. But hopefully oneday.
Hello Vishnu, I see that you are from Kerala! We have a very active online maker community in Kerala which regularly launches products in HN, PH. Some of them has been accepted to YC as well. I think you should defintely join it! You can DM @keralaph in Twitter for adding you to the WhatsApp group.
I posted it here mostly to get feedback on what others think of the idea of error correction and stress test my hypothesis.