I'm not going to write a comment here, because there are already so many, and anything I can think of saying has probably already been said.
I enjoyed reading your essay thing. You should write another one sometime.
Why don't I have a blog?
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#92I have a blog. Almost nobody reads it. That's okay! I treat it like a public notebook. When I find something interesting, I write a quick blog post. When I have to muddle through a technical issue that requires piecing together multiple other sources on the Internet, I write a blog post to summarize. I've written blog posts on getting Walmart security videos to play (Verint codec is a bitch), decoding Marine Corps br…
There is a reason that mine has the subtitle of "it's like /dev/null but with more content" ( https://denner.co/posts/ ) I also mostly use it as a public brain dump for things that I don't want to forget.
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#93" I feel like I should have a blog. Specifically, a tech blog. Everything points towards it! I like coding, I like reading, I particularly like reading blog posts. So then, why don't I have one?! "
Well, do you like writing? Does the main thing that should point toward it point toward it? At the end this person says
"I think the gist of it is... blogging is clearly made for people who enjoy writing and/or sharing. And I think it's okay if I'm not particularly fond of any of those two things. I shouldn't succumb to the peer pressure of thinking that everybody but me has a blog. So, if I were to have a blog, the motivation should be noble and straightforward: "I like to write and share my experiences". "
Well there you go, perfectly reasonable conclusion. Not sure if all the middle stuff was necessary, to be honest.
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#94" I feel like I should have a blog. Specifically, a tech blog. Everything points towards it! I like coding, I like reading, I particularly like reading blog posts. So then, why don't I have one?! " Well, do you like writing? Does the main thing that should point toward it point toward it? At the end this person says "I think the gist of it is... blogging is clearly made for people who enjoy writing and/or sharing. An…
Following the answers to this thread, it seems you have to justify yourself for not having a blog.
If you plainly answer "I don't want to", it's not acceptable. It is mandatory, like having a public GitHub, and so on.
I'm happy for people that like writing — in fact I love reading. I'm happy for those that participate in Open Source. I still do prefer to participate in family activities, playing video games, working in my metal workshop...
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#95This post hits hard. It expresses exactly how I feel. There are days when I say to myself “hey, I got things to say” but they I remember that I’m not an exceptional engineer and probably someone else said it.
There’s another problem. I’m not comfortable writing in English, I want to use my mother tongue - Bulgarian. It would mean zero audience for the blog. Also, most English terms have funny translations or don’t have at all.
Maybe I’m overthinking.
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#96> They are your typical run-of-the-mill tutorials that replicate what's written on the official framework/language guide Yep, I'd like to permanently blacklist those idiotic baeldung, w3schools, tutorialspoint, and geeksforgeeks blogspam entries that SEO'ed themselves to the top of every google search I do for anything programming related.
I've found baeldung to be quite helpful actually. What do you not like about it? I understand what you mean though, I don't like the garbage programming-related articles from a lot of these sites you've listed. Even I as a newb developer have seen very poor advice or wrong info on w3schools, for example.
> I've found baeldung to be quite helpful actually. What do you not like about it?
It's probably great when you're looking to fill some gaps but not when you're starting fresh and trying to wrap your head around some things. Many a times I've found the examples incomplete in the sense that yes, they work (usually) but just show me how, not why. Or maybe it's just the nature of the beast that Spring is. I've given up on Baeldung, I skip it when googling Java related stuff. But that's just my experience.
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#97> They are your typical run-of-the-mill tutorials that replicate what's written on the official framework/language guide Yep, I'd like to permanently blacklist those idiotic baeldung, w3schools, tutorialspoint, and geeksforgeeks blogspam entries that SEO'ed themselves to the top of every google search I do for anything programming related.
W3Schools, TutorialsPoint and GeeksForGeeks tend to be low quality and have better alternatives, but I do quite like Baeldung's Java articles.
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#98I myself would really like to have a blog again, like I used to have. Sometimes write a post or write about some software I am trying to write. However, I do not have a blog. Not, because I could not easily make one. I could indeed easily create one. I wrote multiple blog software thingies myself in the past. I do not have a blog, because of laws, where I live. There is a law, that you must put your contact informati…
> I would like to make fun of politicians and write about how they are doing things wrong.
> [..]
> It is really sad, that the law is this silly and basically antagonistic towards blogging and not wanting every perv on the net to know, where I live or how to give me a call.
Not saying you would write anything bad but what's fun to one can be libel or hate speech to another. "It was just a joke, dude" shouldn't fly. That's one of the reasons some of these laws are in place. Of course it runs the gamut between an healthy democracy with free speech and an authoritarian and controlling state.
With that being said I am curious about lawyers out there just waiting. Do they have anything to win or any legs to stand on if what you wrote doesn't concern them and no clients is asking them to write a letter to you ? What's the situation like in practice ?
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#99I am quite baffled by the vibe of the comment section here. The author explains why they do not feel like writing a technical blog, and those are (1) they have nothing interesting/new to say, (2) they are not a good programmer, and (3) it is not a good CV building. I don't know about (1) and (2), but I respect the author's self-assessment, and I agree with (3), overall a technical blog is not a good CV builder, altho…
Allow me to share another perspective.
Author at some level would like to blog ("I would love to follow the steps of my idols") but then finds reasons to rationalize a priori why it's not worth it.
These reasons might be valid and it's perfectly fine to drop this arbitrary goal and to go pursue something else. But I think that's not necessarily easier to do, it's difficult to control what we are drawn to. And deciding what to do based on a self-assessment about your chances of success is just one heuristic from many others. Welcoming serendipity and knowing you'll get better at it should be considered too. As Steve Job said, "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."
This blog post also reads like wanting the benefits of the outcome without the risk of "failing" or the efforts of the process. I'd argue there are only upsides to trying: so little to lose VS. so much to gain. You get to choose when to stop trying, worst-case scenario is having wasted time exploring some things that were interesting to you anyway.
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#100I used to blog a lot. I used to be active on lots of forums and they were the source of inspiration. Someone would ask a question, I'd write it out as a blog post and then keep linking to it instead of answering repeatedly. I remember writing blog posts like tweets. Now, there are too many contents online (both good and bad), and I always felt "someone must have written about it somewhere." A few years back, I began…
This is nice to hear. I've favorited your comment on HN. I do something similar where I try to write what happened to me every day, it makes it interesting to look back over the years.