Personal Blogging Value

Had the same problem. I just write a blog for myself primarily, with notes on the things I'm working on, code, tools etc. I'm surprised by how often I go back and read my own articles, so I take that as a sign the idea was a success! :)

I've been writing blog posts for 10 years and I don't even write with the intention of anyone reading it, it's just nice to get my thoughts into words or document a project I've been working on (e.g. how to get some weird hardware to work, or what some weird error messages really mean). Having it be public is a motivator to make sure it's at least kind of coherent. Sometimes I get an email from someone who found one of my step by step guides useful, that gives me a warm

I don't feel guilty, but the topic of writing a blog comes up in my journal quite often.I have a dev blog I post to every 2-3 months. Nothing regular, but if a thing costs me a lot of time to figure out, I'll write a post and hope it'll save others time when they search for that particular topic.I think this is really the only way for most people. Nobody knows me, nobody gives a shit about me, why would they follow me as a person?Giving back to the internet is a good thin

Blogging is not for everyone, and certainly not a requirement. On the other hand, writing is a good medium to share knowledge, to get your name out there, to have a connection with other people.You don't have to share your feelings either. Just open a Medium account, or self-host Ghost/Wordpress etc., and document things you've learned, problems you've encountered, interesting discoveries you made etc. In my experience, this contributes to the learning experience.Good l

I use my blog (https://codereviewvideos.com/) for a combination of sharing / remembering solutions to weird / interesting technical problems, and for documenting my learning.Just hit publish.Most of the time you get absolutely no feedback. Heck, most of the time you get absolutely no views!But sometimes you will get some feedback. And sometimes that feedback is nasty. So you put that in th

I had a blog for a decade but I realized that I would post something and nobody would read it, but then a famous programmer would post the same thing in their own blog a year later and everyone would hear about it. So I concluded that blogs are only for the well known programmers and that it’s a waste of my time to share my thoughts with “the web” as a general entity. Instead I share my thoughts with individuals when requested (which mostly just means answering my kids’ questions). Well, also co

I've absolutely noticed this. The only reason I write blog posts now are to (1) show off a project that I'm surprised I was capable of completing or (2) "bullshitting" about marketing because my work pays me $50 a post.I would add a third explanation: Too technical for laymen, not technical enough for cutting edge experts. I sure do know a lot about my field, but the things I would write about are too complicated for beginners, and have been done before by experts. But I c

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I don't think it's mandatory to write about novel or innovative things. It's your blog, you can write what you want.Agree with the write for yourself mindset.I am kind of doing the same thing on my blog https://flaviocopes.com where I write every single day (personal challenge) about some particular thing related to Web programming, and I mainly write for me, because I don't have a good long