Show HN: Blog Reader – Listen to blogs that you don't have time to read (blogreader.com.au)

As a long-time reader of blogs (eg. slatestarcodex.com, kalzumeus.com, etc) I've sometimes struggled to keep up with all the posts that I'd like to read. I often don't make the time to sit down and plough through some of the longer ones.

I noticed that I listened to a lot of podcasts when commuting, so I made this website to convert interesting blog posts into a podcast. The tech component is mostly glue: the trafilatura scraper + AWS Polly TTS.

Given I find this site pretty useful, I figured that some HN readers would enjoy it as well. Here are some of my favourite articles from the past ~18 months with the accompanying audio:

Doing Business In Japan

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan...

https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/e096c7623b305cb129c4dd...

A Deep Dive into K-pop

https://dormin.org/2020/09/06/a-deep-dive-into-k-pop/

https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/741f2612536071e911f9a9...

Peer review: Troubled from the start

https://www.nature.com/news/peer-review-troubled-from-the-st...

https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/4712ffd8d05dd1b51df2b7...

The Real Reason Your City Has No Money

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real- reason-your-city-has-no-money

https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/1f92611929679af2763b34...

A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics

https://medium.com/software-safety/a-software-engineers-guid...

https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/0340fb5628b642f8dd4959...

Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping's China

https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in

https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/f749f66d4be0b6899bf25a...

Markets, discrimination, and "lowering the bar"

https://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/

https://media.blogreader.com.au/media/2571f6e06b9c358d5a9ce3...

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611