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Write all the tutorials you want -- teaching is a good way to verify and refine your own understanding -- but please don't feel compelled to publish them! As ot
by ggambetta 8y ago
Write all the tutorials you want -- teaching is a good way to verify and refine your own understanding -- but please don't feel compelled to publish them! As other posters have said, this is how we end with thousands of low quality tutorials and bad StackOverflow answers.
Publish if you have something new to say, or a new way to say something. The (very very few) articles I've published fall mostly into the second category, and have been extremely well received.
- TomK32 8y agoNot wanting to defend SO, but reading a question, thinking about the solution, scanning the documentation, does help me to learn something new. If I stumble across an answer, even better.
- wenc 8y agoStackOverflow at least has a way for curating for quality through upvotes/downvotes. Bad blog posts can mean hours of wasted time and technical debt accruing in your solutions.