A few years ago I blogged every day about my personal projects. I was running my own business/setting my own hours and took a year to focus on improving my prog

A few years ago I blogged every day about my personal projects. I was running my own business/setting my own hours and took a year to focus on improving my programming skills by making my own games. I'd blog daily about what I learned, provided code snippets, wrote down my reasoning or uncertainties about certain things I did that day, etc. It really helped to solidify what I had done in my mind _and_ as I found out later also helped others who were making similar projects or using the same engine. I even started getting some emails from recruiters who stumbled on my blog and got a deeper view into my skillset and interests. Eventually I moved to a new country where I got a job related to what I'd been doing and blogging about. With a full time job there was less time or energy to blog daily, so I slipped. Now I blog maybe once or twice a month and do not see as obvious a benefit as I did when I blogged daily, because by the time I go to write a post I have forgotten a lot of what I've done and now it's out of my mind. Not only do I not remember everything I might want to blog about anymore, but this indicates that those ideas are _not_ as solid in my mind as they would have been if I had just written them down originally. I think blogging daily is a great idea. When I started doing it I wondered if people would just find it useless and boring, until I realized that I wasn't doing it for other people. The blog was public, but the purpose was solely for my own benefit. In the end it helped others anyway, as a side effect.