I blog at mbuffett.com , personally I just like seeing that people are engaging with or learning from my posts. Like whenever there’s a new release of Bevy, I g

I blog at mbuffett.com , personally I just like seeing that people are engaging with or learning from my posts. Like whenever there’s a new release of Bevy, I get hundreds/thousands of people reading my snake game tutorial, and that’s fulfilling to me, to know that I’m helping people. For the more opinion-based posts, it’s fun to see the discussion on HN, or get emails from people agreeing/disagreeing. I’ve had 3 blogs now, the first was just for fun, the second was because I was told it was “good for my career” in some vague sense, and now I’m back to doing it for fun. The one I did for vague career reasons had the worst content, and did nothing for me. In general I think it’s hard to have a blog lead you to jobs, but maybe this isn’t true if you’re blogging about very niche stuff. I kind of object to the “purely vanity” catch-all in the last sentence, as if the act of creation has no intrinsic value, so if it’s not a means to an end, it must be for vanity.