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Cool, someone _does_ read my blog :) I've been feeling like a bad developer because I never write. Then when I try to write, I think wonder why anyone would re
by Arnor 13y ago
Cool, someone _does_ read my blog :)
I've been feeling like a bad developer because I never write. Then when I try to write, I think wonder why anyone would read what I'm writing (because it's about my first Go program) and I give up. Even when I come up with something relatively novel, I usually just get the info out via StackOverflow.
The point: those useless dev blogs with posts that don't matter to anyone are there because many devs (i.e. me) without much to share, feel obligated to write.
- rfnslyr 13y agoKeep a notebook handy and whenever you have thoughts worth writing, write them. Expand on them later. Write drafts, expand on those, iterate, rewrite. Once you feel you have a concrete idea or article down, publish it. A lot of these developer blogs read like spur of the moment publishing. Unorganized, baseless rambling.
- mikeash 13y agoThat's really weird. Feeling like a bad developer because you never write would be like feeling like a bad racecar driver because you never bike. Totally different activities.
- saraid216 13y agoInstead of blogging, I use things like Google Plus. It's not shocking for me to post something silly and inconsequential and completely egocentric like "My First Go Program", but it's also public and discoverable on the off chance I do something flabbergastingly amazitastic without the overhead of an entire blogging platform. (And no, before you go looking, I don't identify primarily as a programmer, so my G+ is not full of random code snippets.)