That post is actually a link to <https://indieblog.page/>, which features an impressive list of independently maintained personal websites and blogs with RSS feeds.

I was wondering, if instead of discovering one blog at a time, I could discover five blogs at once, directly from my terminal! Turns out the website has <https://indieblog.page/random> which picks a random blog and redirects you to it. It has daily feeds of N random posts too, where N = 1, 3, 5, and 10.

But if, like me, you'd like to have five random blogs suggested in your terminal, here is a quick shell one-liner I'd like to share. It fetches the random blog picker page five times, cleans up the URLs a bit, and prints them on the terminal:

  for _ in $(seq 1 5); do curl -sSI https://indieblog.page/random | grep location | sed 's/location: \(.*\).utm_source=.*/\1/'; done 

  iw5() {
      for _ in $(seq 1 5)
      do
          curl -sSI https://indieblog.page/random |
              grep location |
              sed 's/location: \(.*\).utm_source=.*/\1/'
      done
  }

  $ iw5
  https://justinsimoni.com/colorado-trail-24-hour-backpacking-challenge-in-may-how-far-can-i-hike/
  http://www.iamcal.com/2024-09/10218/
  https://dracos.co.uk/wrote/advent-of-code-2024-7/
  https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/12/mind-your-plotting/
  http://i.never.nu/personal-foundational-texts/

If you're using this, please be considerate of the indieblog.page web server. Avoid running it too frequently to prevent putting unnecessary strain on the server.