I blog about some things I do at work. A mix of things I found particularly interesting and some others asked me to write about. It's partly a way to get appro

I blog about some things I do at work. A mix of things I found particularly interesting and some others asked me to write about. It's partly a way to get approval to talk about some work details outside of the office, but also a bit of a behind the scenes thing from games I work on because I love reading that from others. While I enjoyed this post, I can't say I agree with the motivating bullet points. > Your blog is not original. [...] You’re just probably repeating things you’ve read in another place. I'm usually not writing fluffy think pieces, but rather detailing specific technical solutions from a game I worked on. My solutions may not be original, but the context definitely is and this serves as a vehicle to share details about my work and start discussions of it with my friends. > You’re not an expert in your field I am certainly not a leading expert, but I do have expert knowledge which I know some find interesting and have learned from. Several blog posts are based on lectures I've held at work which fellow programmers seemed to really enjoy, so I'm happy I get to post about them publicly. > You are only showing the world how stupid you are. > If someone, at some point, cares about your blog will be only to criticize it. These two points were my biggest worries before I started my blog. Luckily, it's proven unfounded. People generally have positive things to say about it and the one time someone questioned something led to an interesting discussion from which I learned a valuable trick I've since used in my work. I even published a tool I made at work and got some encouraging comments and a few stars on GitHub, which is fun given how ridiculously niche it was.