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Yeah I agree with this that most software engineers should consider this. It's another way to set yourself apart from the masses that most people will never pu
by donovanm 10y ago
Yeah I agree with this that most software engineers should consider this. It's another way to set yourself apart from the masses that most people will never put in the time and effort to do. The idea that other people put forward that you should only write about things if you think your ideas are innovative always seemed silly to me. A lot of things we think of as trivial could end up being useful and important information to someone else. Besides how are you supposed to know if what you're saying is 'innovative' before you say it and get feedback on it?
- jlgaddis 10y ago> A lot of things we think of as trivial could end up being useful and important information to someone else. This is very true. There have been many, many times when there's a technical article on the top of HN on a topic that I would never have imagined writing about simply because it seemed too basic or "entry-level". There have even been a few topics that I had actually considered writing about but dismissed it, thinking to myself "nah, everybody already knows that".
- holdenk 10y agoSome of the highest traffic blog posts I've written have been on the "entry-level" side of things.
- mdpopescu 10y agoNow that I think about it, one of the pieces of advice I got most comments on was helping an indie writer figure out the intricacies of the "a" HTML tag :) [I left a comment on her blog and a lot of other indie writers thanked me for the details - they needed them when formatting books for Kindle.]