Ask HN: What are some simple, clean, off-beat, and self-hosted blogs you follow?
- simple: not blatantly self-promoting, focuses on a topic, discusses that topic, and the post terminates cleanly without discussing too many other distracting things.
- clean: clean design, does not hurt the eye, does not have ads, does not try to get me to click on other posts and readable both on desktop and mobile.
- off-beat: not one of the mainstream blogs like TechCrunch, Wired, etc., not one of the famous blogs like Paul Graham's, Norvig's, etc., one of the less known ones that has hidden gems one can learn something from.
- self-hosted: not hosted on a popular platform like medium, blogspot, wordpress, etc. hosted by the blog author on their own, could be hosted on GitHub pages and similar places. As long as the author is in full control of the pages, content, layout, etc. that's good enough.
My reason for asking this is twofold: I will get some good blogs to follow. I will get some inspiration to start my own blog. When I start my own blog, I would like to learn how to keep the pages simple and clean from others who have been blogging like this for sometime.