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I believe so yes. When I am learning something new myself, it is always great to follow along with someone else that learned it. There is no reason to leave out your mistakes or lessons learned. Plus you can come back and correct yourself but share it with others.
Do it.
Even if you aren't using it to become attractive for recruiters, this will probably happen. I went from rarely (like, extremely) getting callbacks for remote gigs to getting around 30%-40% callbacks. The difference was that I started a blog about writing a web application with modern technologies and included it in my applications. It's a pretty bland blog, but just the fact that I wrote about stuff I'm interested in…
I blog for myself - and if its useful to others then thats great.
That said I've got this aim to get 100 readers per day - getting close as around 80-90 at the moment
However the opposite is true: no matter how little you know, there's guaranteed to be others who know even less about a given topic. So as long as the content is correct, even if it appears "lightweight", it could be of great value to others.
It sounds like you already know the answer: > I just think it could help me learn more, faster and to improve my communications skills. Two reasons to blog while you're learning something: 1. When one person teaches, two people learn. 2. Writing things down helps sharpen your own understanding of that topic. 3. (Bonus) You may think nobody would find it useful because there are already so many articles out there abou…