I've been following Planet Linux Australia for many years and discovered many interesting FOSS blogs through it. I was sad to see that it got shut down a few weeks ago and so I decided to manually add all of the feeds to my RSS reader to avoid missing posts from people I have been indirectly following for years.
Since all feeds have been removed from the site, I recovered the list of blogs available from an old copy of the site preserved by the Internet Archive.
Here is the resulting .opml
file if you'd
like to subscribe.
Changes
Once I had the full list, I removed all blogs that are gone, empty or broken (e.g. domain not resolving, returning a 404, various database or server errors).
I updated the URLs of a few blogs which had moved but hadn't updated their feeds on the planet. I also updated the name of a blogger who was still listed under a previous last name.
Finally, I removed LA-specific tags from feeds since these are unlikely to be used again.
Work-arounds
The following LiveJournal feeds didn't work in my RSS reader but opened fine in a browser:
- https://ninjafoo.livejournal.com/data/rss
- https://certifiedwaif.livejournal.com/data/rss
- https://tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com/data/rss
- https://lathiat.livejournal.com/data/rss
However since none of them have them updated in the last 7 years, I just left them out.
A couple appear to be impossible to fetch over Tor, presumably due to a Cloudflare setting:
- https://www.jamver.id.au/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/index.rss
- https://www.rwhitby.net/feed
- https://blog.khax.net/feed/
- https://dalts.com/index.xml
- https://pento.net/feed/
Since only the last two have been updated in the last 9 years, I added these to Feedburner and added the following "proxied" URLs to my reader:
Similarly, I couldn't fetch the following over Tor for some other reasons:
- http://algorithm.com.au/blog/files/rss.xml
- http://soundadvice.id.au/blog/index.atom
- http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/category/databases/feed
- http://levlafayette.com/blog/feed
- http://www.rowetel.com/?feed=rss2
- https://hamishtaylor.com.au/photekgraddft-hamish-taylors-blog?format=rss
I excluded the first two which haven't been updated in 6 years and proxied the other ones: