Yes-ish. I posted weekly programming essays in college, and post sporadically now. I had developed lots of opinions about programming, and I couldn't clearly a

Yes-ish. I posted weekly programming essays in college, and post sporadically now. I had developed lots of opinions about programming, and I couldn't clearly articulate any of them. Writing them for a broad audience forced me to adopt a consistent view of the programming world, and helped my writing develop. As an added bonus, the internet is overly relentless when you make a mistake. It made me strive for a higher level of precision and quality that I wouldn't have developed just through my college courses.