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about blogging

I’ve been thinking about writing a blog for a long time. One of the reasons I kept postponing it was because I though that it wouldn’t be useful. Was there something that I could contribute, something that someone not already had written about?

I used to think that there wasn’t. And if I had some information that could aid someone, I thought it would be better to fix it at the source.

For example if there was an weird error message from a compiler, then the obvious thing was to either fix the compiler message or make a bug report. A tracker would be a good place to collect workarounds, and it would be as searchable as a blog post.

Example code could be inluded in the documentation, and so on.

convinced

What I’ve realized, is that sometimes there is no good place for some information. Maybe related to a closed source project without a public bug tracker, or it may not even be related to coding.

I rarely use close source software, and writing about personal haven’t felt that important.

But I realised that a blog is a good place to document thoughs and experiences. To shine some light on real world usages of code/products to spark interest, showing gluecode instead of nonsense minimal examples for a single function used in isolation.

progress

I have tried blogging in the past, but has always failed to keep it going.

I don’t not have high hopes of keeping this blog alive. I like writing, but most of the time I don’t not feel satisfied and tend to erase sentence after sentence.

Every post is progress, although I don’t really know to what end.