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I have a programming blog, which I do cause of interest in writing and showing, but also being able to show potential employers about skills. For me, it's proje

I have a programming blog, which I do cause of interest in writing and showing, but also being able to show potential employers about skills. For me, it's projects that came from random ideas in my mind. Like I have a golf background and wrote something up about scraping to get golf stats, and then analyzing the strokes gained. I also wrote something about how close Noodles and Qdoba seem to be to each other, compared to Noodles and Chipotle. I recently wrote about how to optimize an NBA DFS lineup which was a complex knapsack problem. All super interesting to me. The key in all cases is to have actual code to show and actual results. I bet if you take your random ideas and push forward to start writing you'll have something come up you'd be able to write about. I've found that ideas shift over time when investigating. What are some examples of the random ideas you've had?

zer0sand0nes 7y ago
Mostly related to cutting edge technologies & products. I am not really passionate about "programming" per say, but I do enjoy coming up with unique & useful problems and designing solutions for them. I am not necessarily interested in the coding part. I am a full time software engineer, but I would rather not be. Would me talking about products, random new solutions & random new startup ideas get me anywhere? Without actually doing the coding for them?
- jackschultz 7y ago
  I'd say it's definitely worth it to write about products and solutions because it shows who you are and what you like to talk and think about. That's the case for me, where I write what I like, and if people or employers find that interesting too, then having writing is a great place to begin a conversation. Another note on this is don't feel bad if you don't think your writing is very good. I look back on my posts from 4 years ago and it's pretty clear that I wasn't very good at writing clearly, and also my programming skills really weren't that great. I learned by doing.
  - zer0sand0nes 7y ago
    Not really worried about my writing. My biggest problem is - if I am involved in a project, I want it to be profitable (i know, not very healthy). But I get your point. The thing also would be figuring out how you want to market yourself? What do you want to be seen as?
- arandr0x 7y ago
  It may not seduce employers, per se, but I'd rather read a technical blogs about what should be done vs how to do it, and I think big picture is more important that stuff that can be figured out as is, and I don't think I'm the only one. So there's definitely an audience even if it may not have a checkbook open.

zer0sand0nes 7y ago

Mostly related to cutting edge technologies & products. I am not really passionate about "programming" per say, but I do enjoy coming up with unique & useful problems and designing solutions for them. I am not necessarily interested in the coding part. I am a full time software engineer, but I would rather not be. Would me talking about products, random new solutions & random new startup ideas get me anywhere? Without actually doing the coding for them?

jackschultz 7y ago
I'd say it's definitely worth it to write about products and solutions because it shows who you are and what you like to talk and think about. That's the case for me, where I write what I like, and if people or employers find that interesting too, then having writing is a great place to begin a conversation. Another note on this is don't feel bad if you don't think your writing is very good. I look back on my posts from 4 years ago and it's pretty clear that I wasn't very good at writing clearly, and also my programming skills really weren't that great. I learned by doing.
- zer0sand0nes 7y ago
  Not really worried about my writing. My biggest problem is - if I am involved in a project, I want it to be profitable (i know, not very healthy). But I get your point. The thing also would be figuring out how you want to market yourself? What do you want to be seen as?
arandr0x 7y ago
It may not seduce employers, per se, but I'd rather read a technical blogs about what should be done vs how to do it, and I think big picture is more important that stuff that can be figured out as is, and I don't think I'm the only one. So there's definitely an audience even if it may not have a checkbook open.