Working on https://greatreads.dev/ A place to aggregate and find articles from developers' blogs. Right now, I'm building a submission form for people to submit new sources.
There is also a way to search for articles using vectors, it's called "Semantic Search". So basically you can ask, for example, "Postgresql and how to best optimize it." and it would search for articles touching that subject, or at least related to it.
Wondering about the best way I can add a weekly newsletter built on top of the content currently being ingested, and still looking for more sources to add to the database (let me know if you have any good recommendations).
This is very cool! I built something a little similar https://blognerd.app. I'm really interested in the RSS remixing idea, though I didn't quite crack it. I'll be interested to see how you get on
Working on https://greatreads.dev/
A place to aggregate and find articles from developers' blogs. Right now, I'm building a submission form for people to submit new sources.
There is also a way to search for articles using vectors, it's called "Semantic Search". So basically you can ask, for example, "Postgresql and how to best optimize it." and it would search for articles touching that subject, or at least related to it.
Wondering about the best way I can add a weekly newsletter built on top of the content currently being ingested, and still looking for more sources to add to the database (let me know if you have any good recommendations).
Doing something similar for a non-public project. How do you deal with remixing feeds, and the potential mix of formats (rss, atom, etc)? I need to create new feeds as well, and if its done by normalizing, sanitizing content, etc. I feel I misrepresent the original content, and probably breach the implicit license granted by syndicating via feed.
Probably very few creators care one way or another, as the links are going to the original content. Just interested if people had an opinion on the matter.
It’s honestly a bit of a pain. I’m using a library to help parse different formats, but there are many custom cases to handle. Dates are a good example. I’m parsing more than a dozen formats, and there’s no real pattern in how sites display their published dates. Some blogs even use unusual formats that aren’t common anywhere else.
I try to avoid altering the original content as much as possible. I do need to sanitize and adjust parts of it to produce clean text on my site, but I’m careful not to change anything in a way that misrepresents the source. Only a few short phrases appear on GreatReads, and users cannot read the full article without visiting the original source.
I'm using a Postgres database. So when articles are ingested, I use the Gemini Embedding model (they have a great free tier) and save that in a vector column that is used later to do the search.
A place to aggregate and find articles from developers' blogs. Right now, I'm building a submission form for people to submit new sources.
There is also a way to search for articles using vectors, it's called "Semantic Search". So basically you can ask, for example, "Postgresql and how to best optimize it." and it would search for articles touching that subject, or at least related to it.
I've been slowly adding new sources to the website. Any suggestions would be great. It has about 300 sources at the moment.
A place to find great blog articles by regular folks related to dev/tech world.
Wondering about the best way I can add a weekly newsletter built on top of the content currently being ingested and still looking for more sources to add to the database (let me know if you have any good recommendations).
I am working on something similar but with a different view. I like to get random essay to read whenever I am bored or in-between tasks. So I developed this: https://read2reflect.com/
I have added only about 35 essays for now. Might pick up some from your list too.
That's pretty cool. I also have a "random article" button at the top right, which is very fun to use. I've discovered a lot of great content by clicking on that button.
Essentially, a platform to access articles from developer blogs.
I've been slowly adding new sources to the website. Any suggestions would be great.
I'm considering adding a feature that allows searching using vectors. Basically, you could search for something like "How to make sure your PostgreSQL database is configured correctly". And it would return the closest articles using vector search compared to your query. Is this something that sounds interesting?
No. I have three MCPs installed and this is the only one that doesn’t need guidance. You’ll see it using it for search and finding references and such. It’s a one line install and no work to maintain.
The advantage is that Claude won’t have to use the file system to find files. And it won’t have to go read files into context to find what it’s looking for. It can use its context for the parts of code that actually matter.
And I feel like my results have actually been much better with this.
It's mostly focused on tech-related blogs, though. A place to find good articles from fellow developers.
There are some extra features on top of it. Like semantic search, remixing rss feeds into a single one are some of my favorites.