I've just set up a new blog aggregator for folks in my local community. It's called Planet Haddon!

I've been getting back into blogging over the last couple years, and I've enjoyed discovering and following other small blogs during that time. It turns out that the small web is actually quite big, in absolute terms.

At the same time, I've met a bunch of neighbors with similar interests since moving to my current place a couple years back as well, and I know other folks are doing cool stuff too. But there aren't many spaces for local folks to share the cool stuff they've been doing. So I figured, why not make one?

They've become less common in recent years, but there's a classic type of aggregated blog called a Planet. The Guix community recently started a Planet site of their own, and the software that Ray Miller wrote for it seemed like a good starting point for a local site - it outputs a static site, so I can host it with minimal requirements.

If you're a local interested in adding your own blog, feel free to either open an issue with a link to your feed, or if you're a software developer and know how, open a pull request adding your feed.

This is a bit of an experiment - I don't know how much interest (if any) there is among folks in my local area for something like this. But you can't find out if you don't try, right? :)