Jan-Lukas Else

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Tags: Blogroll


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Advent of Bloggers – What a cool idea, James! 👍 If you still need some inspiration, I have a blogroll with many blogs worth reading as well.

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I have already written about my blogroll several times. After I automated it with Hugo and was also able to implement the automatic creation with GoBlog, I have now significantly improved the integration in GoBlog. Blogroll support is now directly in the application, hopefully supports other services besides Miniflux and there is an OPML download now. Blogrolls rock!

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Updated Miniflux blogroll generation script

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Regarding the Go-based script I shared in a previous post:

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I took inspiration from Ru and finally added a “favorite blogs” section to my blogroll. I also sorted the blogs into English and German, so that someone without knowledge of German can ignore the German blogs.

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Ru Singh automated her blogroll too.

In July 2020, Jan au­to­mated his blogroll — and this val­i­dated the idea in my head. Now, my own blogroll is au­to­mated as well!

I think I’m not the first one. If I remember correctly, Jan did this already before.

A key dif­fer­ence is that I have my script mark some feeds as recommended based on their feed IDs from my Miniflux reader. Then, these feeds are shown first as “Recommended Feeds,” fol­lowed by all the other feeds in a sep­a­rate list.

That is a very clever idea! Currently there are 68 blogs in the blogs section on my blogroll, definitely confusing for people searching for the best blogs to follow. Problem: I have to pick a few favorites and that’s a really difficult task.

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How my blogroll gets generated (now completely automatic!)

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Yesterday I teased a new post about how I automated my blogroll generation by writing a Go script and using the Miniflux API. Here it is.

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How I automatically create my blogroll

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I just updated my blogroll and thought that it might be a great idea to share my workflow to do exactly that. I use Miniflux a lot. Using Miniflux, I read all the blogs and get all the news, get updates from all the YouTubers and even subscribe to some Mastodon accounts (fediverse microblogs). I use multiple categories to sort the feeds. One of those categories is “Blogs” with all the blogs, which I also list on my blogroll.

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