Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?

I'm honestly more interested in your cousin's goat farm then the original post of this blog now.

Back at the beginning of the pandemic, there was a farm that would rent goats to appear on your Zoom meetings. You'd PayPal them something like 20 bucks, and e-mail the meeting code/link and a goat would show up.

I always thought that was the GOAT use of goats.

About five years ago, I took my kids to a petting zoo with baby animals. I was so struck by how cute baby goats were. I couldn't shake the feeling that I had made fundamentally wrong choices in my life because I didn't have more time with baby goats.

This is my current daydream to own goats (because that's probably the best way to get consistent access to baby goats). I was specifically looking at the breed of Nigerian dwarf goats. There would be cheesemaking, vegetation clearing, and current dreams also include an apiary.

Ahhhh.... goats.

I’ve been trying to rent this exact service, but the most popular guy in my area is also apparently a flake

This is genius.

Goats eat, say, English Ivy leaves, but they obviously don't eat all the roots.

English Ivy quickly grows back (even with mere inches of roots).

This requires another round of goats.

Goats-as-a-service subscription ftw!

Next obvious step would be some kind of goat-friendly muzzle on a few of the goats and a $9.99 "turbo" upcharge that unlocks the muzzles.

Edit: I think upcharge should instead "unlock up to 8 goat cores"

Old fart moment: rolling my eyes when "GOAT" enters the vocabulary of HN users (well at least 1 user, the OP).

In fact there are 3 RSS feed types

User : https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=<XXX>

Channel : https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<XXX>

Playlist : https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<XXX>

Are there any apps (other than Google’s own) that use these?

I could not find any RSS feed on their website though

In the spirit of "GOAT", there's a great mini-golf course in Minnesota that has goats on it... http://bigstoneminigolf.com/?ID=OA

That is a huge list. In what way do you consume this? I would feel overwhelmed following this many blogs. How much value would you say you get from following this many blogs?

How cool! Very inspirational.

thank you!

I find goats pretty interesting, they have amazing balance and are great at climbing mountains for instance... skills I would like to improve, maybe I can learn from goats? They also make cute noises.

This is an excellent point and captures the problem well. You're going to learn more from someone who's a couple steps ahead of you than from a GOAT. That's why local meetups can be so valuable.

I find there is value in both, for me.

Even if Lionel Messi's problems are so far from mine that I can't understand, getting a glimpse into what his set of problems and his mental framework that got him there _could be_ valuable. The mental framework he uses could be something I could use to improve.

I agree, though, that I can't just use advice from someone who is on a whole different level. You can't use a great solution to a problem that doesn't exist in your situation.

Probably because they killed Google Reader

Honestly, I looked at this discussion just to know what "GOAT blogs" are.

General rule of thumb with communication: Try to avoid acronyms, because chances are most people will have no idea what you're talking about. If you do need to use them, make sure you very quickly define what the acronym is.

FWIW: Even the Google doesn't know what GOAT blogs are. Searching for GOAT blogs brings up blogs about goats: https://www.google.com/search?q=GOAT+blog&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS99...

Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test?

Yes, OP forgot/didn't know many HN commenters have nothing to do with sports and, thus, are unaware of this particular acronym.

Yep. OPML is the way. http://superkuh.com/2022-04-27-feedlist.opml And this is the same list but with categorized HTML descriptions and RSS links, http://superkuh.com/feeds8.html . "Computing" and "Computing but not spammy" categories apply here.

thanks!

Luke Smith is somebody who LARPs as a technology skeptic while using technology, and who spouts his insanely uneducated opinions about anything he wants while shilling Monero as if it is God's greatest gift to the earth. One example is the (unfortunately, massively popular) youtube video where he tells everyone that all jobs are fake, deflation is a good thing, and the reason central banks don't want deflation is because they are in a giant conspiracy to make you poor.

Upvoted for Luke Smith. I find his take refreshing although I can see how many here will disagree