They exist.

Check out these HN threads -

Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466488

Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842276

Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625952

Hacker News but for independent blogs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567155

Show HN: Blogs.hn – tiny blog directory

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36613727

And then, here's mine. Haha -

https://www.rxjourney.net/

That's a treasure