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This resonates with me. I recently tried to create demo videos for https://nocommandline.com https://nocommandline.com . I had assumed it was a simple enough ta

This resonates with me. I recently tried to create demo videos for https://nocommandline.com https://nocommandline.com . I had assumed it was a simple enough task (I've seen multiple websites with demo videos, I've created demo videos with Adobe Captivate at my 9-5 job) but in the absence of an expensive Adobe Captivate License, it turned out to be much more difficult and time consuming than I expected. The thought I immediately had was - there are probably lots of other SMBs struggling with this; you should blog about this and what finally worked for you. The thought of blogging about what I struggled with is usually followed by - but you're not an expert in this domain; maybe your solution is actually wrong which means you'll be leading others down the wrong path or maybe it was a hack. I usually counter that thought by making sure that a blog post would clearly show that I'm not an expert in that domain and that I'm simply documenting my experience (sometimes, you're just looking for a hack to get you over a hump so you can ship and then you can come back later and build a more robust solution)

duncan-donuts 5y ago
To add to your list of ways to write off imposter syndrome —- making the hack or wrong solution public can flush out the real experts who might otherwise not bother.
jart 5y ago
You should not have imposters syndrome if you're replacing the gcloud command. That command makes developers go crazy. For the longest time it was not possible to use micro instances because each time the gcloud apt package upgraded it would need so much resources just to install the package that it'd crash the entire vm. Last time I checked, it needed 60,000 system calls just to list a folder. Most of its invocations can be replaced with clever bash one-liners that curl the json api and metadata.google.internal. So I hope Google is paying attention because their user-facing command line tools are so bad that someone founded a business to be its complete antithesis. So maybe they should have someone take a break on squeezing the last 99.9%ile of latency out of bigtable and build a working command line interface.

duncan-donuts 5y ago

To add to your list of ways to write off imposter syndrome —- making the hack or wrong solution public can flush out the real experts who might otherwise not bother.

jart 5y ago

You should not have imposters syndrome if you're replacing the gcloud command. That command makes developers go crazy. For the longest time it was not possible to use micro instances because each time the gcloud apt package upgraded it would need so much resources just to install the package that it'd crash the entire vm. Last time I checked, it needed 60,000 system calls just to list a folder. Most of its invocations can be replaced with clever bash one-liners that curl the json api and metadata.google.internal. So I hope Google is paying attention because their user-facing command line tools are so bad that someone founded a business to be its complete antithesis. So maybe they should have someone take a break on squeezing the last 99.9%ile of latency out of bigtable and build a working command line interface.