<story><title>Curated list of personal blogs</title><url>https://refined.blog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t help but notice all the blogs tagged &amp;quot;software&amp;quot; in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining?&lt;p&gt;I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it exists, I want an app&amp;#x2F;site that will scrape a list of sites I give it (blogs for example) to show me any new content each day. A personal home page with titles and perhaps a hundred or so words from each site I track that has new content.&lt;p&gt;In the broader picture, I feel overwhelmed by the amount of technology these days, spend too much of my time browsing, etc. (HN, case in point). So I am looking for something I call &lt;i&gt;TRAoT&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Right Amount of Technology&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;magic mirror&amp;quot; that displays this overview, home page. Interactivity is minimal or nil. No ability to comment, follow links, etc. Like the morning newspaper of old, I spend a little time in the morning with it and then go about my day &amp;quot;offline&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;In short I am looking at ways to take the open-ended and stress inducing (anxiety inducing?) relationships I have with technology and replace them with a more staid, maybe even serendipitous, relationship that allows me back more free time, less stress.&lt;p&gt;Maybe this &amp;quot;Solar Punk&amp;quot; thing is something of the Zeitgeist of our time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fovc</author><text>What you want is RSS, but you don&amp;#x27;t need to learn how it works at all. Go to feedly.com and create a (free) account. Add sites you want to follow (there&amp;#x27;s an &amp;#x27;add content&amp;#x27; button which lets you search by URL). Done. Feedly will give you a home page with titles and blurbs, and for many sites you can even get the &amp;#x27;reader mode&amp;#x27; content without navigating to the site directly.&lt;p&gt;[Not affiliated with feedly, just a happy user]</text></comment>
<story><title>Curated list of personal blogs</title><url>https://refined.blog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t help but notice all the blogs tagged &amp;quot;software&amp;quot; in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining?&lt;p&gt;I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it exists, I want an app&amp;#x2F;site that will scrape a list of sites I give it (blogs for example) to show me any new content each day. A personal home page with titles and perhaps a hundred or so words from each site I track that has new content.&lt;p&gt;In the broader picture, I feel overwhelmed by the amount of technology these days, spend too much of my time browsing, etc. (HN, case in point). So I am looking for something I call &lt;i&gt;TRAoT&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Right Amount of Technology&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;magic mirror&amp;quot; that displays this overview, home page. Interactivity is minimal or nil. No ability to comment, follow links, etc. Like the morning newspaper of old, I spend a little time in the morning with it and then go about my day &amp;quot;offline&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;In short I am looking at ways to take the open-ended and stress inducing (anxiety inducing?) relationships I have with technology and replace them with a more staid, maybe even serendipitous, relationship that allows me back more free time, less stress.&lt;p&gt;Maybe this &amp;quot;Solar Punk&amp;quot; thing is something of the Zeitgeist of our time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WorldMaker</author><text>In the Ancient Times there were a couple of different approaches to something similar to what you are asking for.&lt;p&gt;On the one side, for many years that was what people considered their &amp;quot;home page&amp;quot;: you&amp;#x27;d use a &amp;quot;Portal&amp;quot; like Yahoo! or MSN.com and they&amp;#x27;d support all sorts of customization, including blocks for RSS feeds you&amp;#x27;d give it. It&amp;#x27;s hard to imagine today&amp;#x27;s super-curated and overly news-obsessed Yahoo! or MSN.com being truly customizable and allowing you to pick and choose RSS feeds over media conglomerate content, but Yahoo! has fallen quite far from its peak and MSN.com and others were always flirting with the media conglomerates over user interests.&lt;p&gt;The other thing that existed in the Ancient Times that even fewer remember today was that HP believed RSS feeds actually could herald the &amp;quot;personal morning newspaper era&amp;quot; and that it would be great for printer and ink sales so they had an RSS reader for years that you&amp;#x27;d give it a list of RSS feeds and a print schedule and it would happily have your &amp;quot;morning newspaper&amp;quot; printed and waiting for you.&lt;p&gt;It was an interesting idea, though I still don&amp;#x27;t think the waste of paper&amp;#x2F;ink on that was necessarily the best idea for the planet, but there was some romance to the concept of a &amp;quot;personalized morning newspaper&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Most e-readers have an RSS app or three, some with strong offline support. You might be able to get what you want from the right app.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also seen some interesting DIY projects (mostly here on HN) of people taking big e-ink displays and building ambient personal news surfaces. Nothing productized yet, but very cool to see people DIY exploring the &amp;quot;magic mirror&amp;quot; spaces for non-interactive &amp;quot;here&amp;#x27;s a glance at stuff you care about&amp;quot; displays.</text></comment>