Why blog if nobody reads it?

Same, I created https://softuts.com exactly for this, to write fixes to technical issues I encounter, when I can't find another solution via a Google search.

There starts to be some traffic, I am happy to assume that any person visits my blog for a fix will probably save a good amount of debugging time.

My blog offers nothing new - https://lazydevstories.com/

But I still write. I want to read or research some topics myself and consolidate all my readings in a blog post, clarifies few things for me.

1. It tells me structurally what I understood

2. It creates a structure in my mind for that topic that stays a long time

3. Gives me a place to go back when I want to

4. Sometimes explaining a concept is hard and I would like to write and with some pictures it could mean reader understands my depth of knowledge, and it also clarifies my gap in my knowledge.

5. simply writing is a joy.

>There’s two lies we tell ourselves: If I write it, they will come. They won’t. There are billions of blog posts out there. The internet is an infinite void, and your blog is a whisper in a hurricane. If nobody reads it, it’s a waste of time.

I never told these to myself. I have been running a blog before it was called blog.

My primary goal was and continues to be as a reference to things I wanted to learn, explore, clarify, digest, break down, track, and so on. The public part is a simple side effect that historically, it was cumbersome to have synchronized devices and such for records or logs. A public "blog" where I am the only one with read/write is a simple way to solve this problem.

It is more of a journal to myself of "to dos" and "here i am in this project" so I can come back to it six months (or years) later and can restart it.

> Blogging forces clarity. It makes you structure your thoughts, sharpen your perspective.

Sure. that is one way to say why I have a log on the web. Has noting to two initial points.

And, this is why it is

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For me, the possibility that someone might stumble across what I've written keeps me honest. My blog forces me to be clearer and more organized then when I'm writing personal notes.

There is nothing "just" about marketing. Whether for you or a company.