I built a site to give you a starting point for discovery: https://indieblog.page

Creator here. Feel free to ask me anything.

No question here, but I just wanted to add: I subscribed to the "daily random posts" feed in April 2022. Because of that feed, I've subscribed to some blogs, and even reached out and become "internet friends" with some of their authors. As well as, you know, just generally being informed/entertained by the work that you're collating.

So thanks!

Thank you for creating this project. I was delighted to find my blog in the list! However, my blog appears twice in your list:

1) https://susam.net/feed.xml

2) https://susam.net/blog/feed.xml

The second link is a duplicate that simply redirects to the first. If it is not too much trouble, would you be able to remove the second entry? Thanks for your time!

done

Thank you!

the big list was cool, I saw something about "discipline" while scrolling it but then couldn't search for the page with that keyword. not a big deal, downloading the json sorted that out but thought I'd mention it. really cool page!

I started a blogging platforming recently, any chance you can include all its blog automatically?

I wouldn't want to overwhelm the results with a single platform. also I do check each submission manually so I want to keep it manageable.

I’m curious about two things:

- the stack

- the source of your collection (seeing my write up there is flattering)

both are answered on the faq page in detail: https://indieblog.page/faq

quick answer: php+sqlite and a hackernews thread. nowadays mostly submissions.

If you were to die, is there a way for someone to continue with the project?

sources are on github, blog URLs can be downloaded.

DokuWiki lead dev here. I agree, it's an amusing read, even though I certainly do not agree with many of the mentioned issues ;-)

Do you have a Google alert for HN mentioning your project or how did you find this obscure submission so quickly? :)

yeah, I'm using https://f5bot.com/

I saw the headline and thought HackerNews is now showing ads. But it's an editor called "ad".

There are ads disguised as articles, but they are usually about Apple products. Often the article is a direct link to the corresponding product web page.

Ah Americans... thinking everyone's walls are just plaster board on studs. I don't know what OP's situation is, but adding a cable to my walls would require machinery to cut a channel into the brickwork.

Yes. I also have a "random blog post" button which I like to hit from time to time. It's nice to see where I was years ago and what was going on in my life back then. (my blog spans more than 20 years by now)

pet peeve: your blog has no RSS feed

FYI the code has been updated to use sigwait instead.

You probably can. I never used OBS, but it's probably a bit more than a 20kb binary though ;-)

I don't understand, what is the significance of a 20kb binary? The only person using this would be someone who takes Zoom meetings on a company-issued computer and I can't imagine such machines are disk space-constrained.

I'm not aware of company issued computer with x11. Is it really a thing ?

Some companies let you run Linux on their company issued computer.

True. If something goes wrong this will just crash. But to be fair, the only error handling I could think of would probably just exit with a vague error message... Pull requests to make it more robust welcome anyway!

To the parent, splitbrain just got you to QA this for him. The true cost of software is the maintenance and QA, and he got you to do free work, and here I am doing free work writing about it. How hard we BOTH just got pwned! </joke>

will work for food

haha yeah, its ok for a tool its really cool honestly :p just commenting on the 'so little code' might be good to check if the x y etc. are within the screen / set resolution perhaps.