[HN Gopher] The benefits of learning in public
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The benefits of learning in public
Author : gpjt
Score : 294 points
Date : 2025-02-24 00:34 UTC (22 hours ago)
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| alpb wrote:
| I'm working one of such blog posts as we speak. Past few months
| I've been purely publishing articles in my domain (Kubernetes)
| that go really deep into things that I've discovered the hard
| way, or code walkthroughs in OSS codebases.
| kreelman wrote:
| Well done. Great you've got time for that. Thanks.
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| > Past few months I've been purely publishing articles in my
| domain (Kubernetes) that go really deep into things that I've
| discovered the hard way
|
| Could I ask for a link?
| azundo wrote:
| Looking through the submission history of that user yields
| https://ahmet.im/blog/index.html
| neilv wrote:
| I'm imminently posting one such Web page, which took me many
| person-days to figure out, when I couldn't find the info.
|
| Posting is actually delayed because I'm experimenting with how to
| do this more sustainably than I have in the past. Which means
| generating dollars somehow, and also making it harder for "AI"
| crawlers and services to rip off everything. :(
| pfych wrote:
| Whenever I fix something or struggle with an issue I ALWAYS write
| myself a blog post and make sure to cram in the exact errors/SEO
| Keywords I searched for while trying to glue together a solution.
| bsimpson wrote:
| Same with posting questions - try to include all the things you
| searched for, so when it gets answered, the next person can
| find it.
| tombert wrote:
| Two days ago, I was looking on how to get Gamescope working
| with a new computer on NixOS. I searched around, and found a
| Reddit post about it [1], found that they had a Github Gist
| attached to it, and _then_ realized that I was the guy who
| posted it. I had completely forgot that I had done this work
| already.
|
| [1]
| https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1dahr3g/steamos_base...
| fy20 wrote:
| That and finding the answer on StackOverflow that you wrote
| reeeeee wrote:
| That's incredible, I don't know how I would react. It's like
| finding a time-capsule that you forgot about.
| lazyasciiart wrote:
| My most useful stack overflow answer is one where I barely knew
| what I was doing (something back in MVC.net) and while I
| managed to fix the problem, which was the same as the one asked
| about, I didn't understand any of the marked "best answers" or
| how they were relevant, so i wrote out how I'd fixed it in "I
| clicked here and typed this to match that" terms. Much later I
| knew enough to realize that of course my answer was exactly
| what those other answers were saying to do, but mine still got
| buckets of votes from all the other poor folk googling without
| having yet understood the bindings and views and magic
| connections between pieces that Visual Studio was making.
| solarized wrote:
| I also do this.
|
| Still don't know how to respond when i get fucked by LLM
| authoritarians (Grok, ChatGPT, etc.).
|
| They don't give the traffic back / incentives or even cite us
| as the source. -\\_(tsu)_/-
| gblargg wrote:
| Something I wish I had done more. You think you don't need to
| make a note because it's fresh in your head at the time, but
| years later, even the context is gone. Expecting to remember
| arcane solutions to things you do rarely is unrealistic. I've
| gotten better but still have a ways to go. One thing that
| removes the barrier is to just have common log to put
| everything, perhaps with some tags, so you can quickly open it
| and type your thoughts when they're fresh, without having to
| worry about packaging it just right.
| michael1e wrote:
| That's what I do too. The last post I did was trying to figure
| out how to replace the battery in my baby monitor.
|
| https://www.michael1e.com/how-to-replace-the-eufy-spaceview-...
| theoreticalmal wrote:
| Our Eufy SpaceView camera just arrived yesterday, I hope web
| search/AI will point me to this answer in a few years when I
| need to replace the battery!
| ErigmolCt wrote:
| That's a great habit! Not only does it help solidify what
| you've learned, but it also makes life easier for the next
| person facing the same issue
| swyx wrote:
| amen, my own journey/version here. most powerful career insight
| ive ever had, when reflecting on why my career transition from
| finance to tech went so well. https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public
| runevault wrote:
| Always good advice to put back into the world to help those who
| come after. I've made a few videos in the past to explain things
| I know others struggled with in Godot and every time someone
| finds one of them and thanks me for making the concept of the
| video make sense it puts a smile on my face.
| RajT88 wrote:
| I post the occasional Medium article about technology and DIY
| projects.
|
| I wrote a post like this once - an article I wish someone else
| had written and posted. It has hundreds of views - a steady dozen
| or so a week. It's too bad I don't have more content like this
| where I figured out a thing which was largely undocumented.
| mvdtnz wrote:
| I wish I had done this starting a decade ago. Now, with AI, it
| feels pointless. These powerful AI tools have slurped all of that
| valuable information up while simultaneously removing all value
| from actually posting any of it going forward.
| zem wrote:
| seriously, just ignore the AI, and create the human internet
| you want to see.
| protocolture wrote:
| How have they done the second?
| benatkin wrote:
| It turns into write the messages/prompts to get the answer you
| wish you'd received and put it somewhere where it can be used
| to train the AIs and in the meantime searched by humans
| robocat wrote:
| If you're writing to help altruistically, then AI shouldn't
| matter.
|
| If you want recognition, then writing tech articles is a
| difficult path to help you gain status or become known.
|
| My guess is that you just dislike helping the enemy. I'm often
| more driven for negative reasons than I am for positive ones.
| netghost wrote:
| Three reasons to write regardless of whether AI slurps it up.
|
| 1. You will learn more, even when you think you know everything
| there is to know about the topic.
|
| 2. You can point to a thing you personally created. It's nice
| to be discussing a technical topic and be able to say, "Hey, I
| actually wrote an article about that, I'll send you the link."
|
| 3. AI might slurp up some of what you write, but it's a blurry
| filter over information. Your unique writing, details, and
| perspective are your own.
|
| Finally, it can be fun or rewarding in the same way drawing,
| painting, or any other creative act can be. If it's not, then
| channel your effort into something else.
| iamwil wrote:
| LLMs aren't good at everything. If you're on the edge of
| knowledge and taste, it's very apparent. Might as well write it
| down.
|
| Not at all. That's like saying it feels pointless to write a
| blog if there's search. Like gwern says, lots of people are
| probably going to be looking for information through LLMs in
| the future. If you don't write what you're thinking, you'll
| likely be invisible or illegible to the future. Might as well
| write it down.
| ZaoLahma wrote:
| If your target audience is yourself, there's still plenty of
| value in writing it down.
|
| Wait long enough and there will be situations where you did
| something in the past that works really well, but you can't
| remember anymore what you did or why you did it. An AI doesn't
| really help you then.
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| These days, there is always someone who has already written what
| I wanted to write. So, I write my own version. In the early days,
| most of my blog posts were inspired by questions on public
| forums. I reply there and then write a blog post, and then, I
| just point them to my blog. The articles from my blog from the
| early 2000s reflect all of that.
|
| For instance, the article on how to open a browser full-screen
| from IE5 was a roaring success.
| https://brajeshwar.com/2002/ie-50-full-screen-from-itself/
| shadowgovt wrote:
| This is the only reason I have a blog. It's letters to myself
| when I find one of those in-the-gap-between-systems problems and
| want to describe how to fix it.
| zem wrote:
| julia evans is really good at doing that. can recommend her blog,
| both for knowledge and for inspiration: https://jvns.ca/.
| serviceberry wrote:
| The corollary is that if you find that post, _say something_.
| Drop the author a note, leave a comment. No one else does. For
| every YT celebrity, there are thousands of people posting good
| content on the internet and not knowing if it 's being seen or
| appreciated by anyone.
| gpjt wrote:
| That's an excellent point! Every author needs to know they're
| not posting into a void.
| uallo wrote:
| I run a tiny blog. Every now and then, I check the server
| logs. Specifically, the user agent strings. While crawling
| feeds, most feed readers adjust their user agent string to
| include how many of their users have subscribed to that
| specific feed. That way, I know that at least 9 people on
| this planet see my posts. Myself included, that's 10! :)
| dasil003 wrote:
| if you put a link in your profile here you might get 11
| ctxc wrote:
| HN does not do reply notifications, so please send your
| blog over - my contact details are on my profile. :)
| ketzo wrote:
| The ~3 times this has ever happened to me, it made my _week_.
| Cannot recommend enough.
| kristiandupont wrote:
| (Just to say that I went to your profile to check out your
| writings but found no link!)
| elashri wrote:
| One of the reasons I avoid commenting on YouTube whatsoever is
| the risk that an automated filter flags my comment and then
| nuke the whole account.
|
| This idea seems similar. I have some accounts on social media
| that is being used for read-only. That's unfortunate reality.
| jmercouris wrote:
| This idea is not related to _avoiding_ commenting. The Author
| is suggesting you comment.
| elashri wrote:
| I understand that. I'm just saying that this is the reason
| I avoid commenting even when I want to follow author
| suggestion. I agree with the author.
| bell-cot wrote:
| A fair number of YouTubers also have their own web sites,
| social media accounts, or other easy-ish ways to comment.
| doublepg23 wrote:
| I reached out to a person on Gemini in 2021 and we've spoken
| basically every day since. You never know what kind of
| connections are out there unless you try.
| netghost wrote:
| There was a blog I followed and really admired ten or fifteen
| years ago. One day I was reading one of his posts and in the
| middle of it was an exuberant note of thanks for an article I
| wrote doing a close read of Ruby's TSort package.
|
| Super niche, mostly irrelevant to all but a vanishingly small
| number of people, and yet I had proof that someone I admired
| found it useful.
|
| It's been years, and it still makes me smile when I think of
| it.
|
| You never know what impact you might make on others.
| 8n4vidtmkvmk wrote:
| A guy posted about how to fix a broken car socket (cigarette
| lighter or whatever you call them) on a 1999 Honda Civic.
| Apparently there's little... Transistors or something under the
| glove box. Never knew they were there. It was like a 50 cent
| fix. Would never have known if this person hadn't posted. I did
| drop him a note of thanks
| jayd16 wrote:
| Fuses not transistors.
| 8n4vidtmkvmk wrote:
| That sounds right. Couldn't remember
| wizardforhire wrote:
| Case in point
|
| Total party skills, arguably the most balanced astute
| commentary of current events... definitely that I've come
| across. Hidden behind a game master facade.
|
| https://youtube.com/@totalpartyskills
| cess11 wrote:
| Judging from a few of those "psychopolitics" videos it's a
| far right activist.
| InDubioProRubio wrote:
| Aint everybody - inflation, inflation, inflation..
| wizardforhire wrote:
| Really? Thats what you got out of that? Please go a little
| deeper before being so dismissive.
| cess11 wrote:
| If you want to claim this person is not a radical
| reactionary, please share some evidence of this instead.
| adityaathalye wrote:
| 100 upvotes, if I could. There is too little positive feedback
| in peoples' lives, if any. For this reason, I habitually cold
| email people who's stuff has moved me in some way (think, feel,
| pause etc...). Universe knows, I need it too :D So I put a
| "standing invitation" [1] front-and-center on my site, copying
| Derek Sivers and patio11. I get maybe a handful of "hello from
| an Internet stranger" emails, but every time it makes my day /
| week / longer if the conversation rambles on languidly. Email
| is so great for slow-mo thoughtful banter.
|
| [1] https://www.evalapply.org/index.html#standing-invitation
| 7thaccount wrote:
| Glad to hear that other people do this as well. I very rarely
| get a response (not the intent), but hope it makes at least
| someone's day.
|
| I've done this for a few books, two video games, and a
| composer. One of the smaller indie studios wrote me back a
| nice email about how much it meant to them.
| nindalf wrote:
| I've gotten a few emails about my blog and without exception
| they've all made my week.
| ctxc wrote:
| Come on, you have to link your blog on your profile!
|
| HN does not do reply notifications, so please send me a link
| - my contact is in my profile :)
| jamiedumont wrote:
| I did this recently when a blog post described the exact, very
| niche issue I was having with a production server. This post
| described the symptoms of the issue clearly and included a
| flow-chart of required fixes. There was no preamble, just clear
| guidance. It was more an incident management manual than a blog
| post, and it saved me a lot of Googling under considerable
| stress.
|
| I sent the author a quick thank you, explaining how it helped
| me in my hour of need. Exactly as others have said here, it
| goes a long way to making the effort of blogging worthwhile!
| dcminter wrote:
| Quite right. My late father used to do free audiobook
| recordings for LibriVox1 and while I know he enjoyed their
| forums, after he died we discovered a little clutch of _hand
| written_ letters from people who had enjoyed his recordings. It
| warms my heart to know how pleased that would have made him and
| was one of the brighter moments when clearing out the family
| home.
|
| These signs of appreciation are, themselves, truly appreciated.
|
| 1 https://librivox.org/ - if you'd like to hear him then try
| The Prisoner of Zenda: https://librivox.org/the-prisoner-of-
| zenda-by-anthony-hope/
| ErigmolCt wrote:
| Absolutely. A simple "This helped me, thanks!" can mean a lot
| to someone putting effort into sharing knowledge.
| rolfus wrote:
| I do this!
|
| About two years ago I wanted to replay a game demo I remembered
| from an old (early 00') computer magazine demo disc. The actual
| game was nowhere to be found anywhere on the internet, but I
| did locate the developer and sent him an email.
|
| Turns out the game was never actually released - its only
| public existence was as a demo game alongside a bunch of other
| games and software. He still had the installer for the game,
| which was small enough to fit as an attachment in the reply he
| gave.
|
| He didn't say, but I got the distinct feeling that I might have
| made his day asking about that game he made more than 20 years
| ago.
| datadrivenangel wrote:
| This! A tiny response lets people know that their work is at
| least noticed!
| InDubioProRubio wrote:
| Even better drop them the discussion link.
| HPsquared wrote:
| I throw out upvotes like candy, but a word is worth 1000
| clicks.
| nicbou wrote:
| Yes please! This sort of feedback keeps me going through the
| harder times. I could have sold out a million times if it
| wasn't for the feedback of grateful readers keeping me on the
| right path. A kind comment never fails to make my day!
|
| I made it a habit of showing gratitude to content creators, as
| well as to open source maintainers.
| anupmm wrote:
| Hear hear!!
| tombert wrote:
| I haven't blogged in quite awhile, and I don't know why. I've
| done what everyone has done and started five or six blogs and
| then abandoned them, but never more than that.
|
| Anyone who has seen my HN history knows that I'm not averse to
| writing out large quantities of text spouting out my dumb
| opinions on things, and I don't think I'm a terrible writer or
| anything. I think at least some of my longer HN comments could be
| converted into blog posts with just a little effort, but for
| whatever reason it has never really stuck with me.
|
| I guess part of it is that HN is a lot more conversational, or at
| least when I write a comment here, I'm writing it either a) in
| response to someone or b) with the expectation that someone might
| respond to me. For whatever reason, having that bit of social
| interaction (with the relatively technical and educated audience
| of HN) is enough to lower the barrier for me to write something.
|
| I think if I already had a blog that was relatively popular, I'd
| also find it easier to get into the mood to write a more
| organized blog post, if for no other reason then there would be
| an automatic minimum-interest in whatever I write and then it
| would feel less like I'm shouting into the void.
| iamwil wrote:
| Just cut and paste whatever you wrote in comments into a blog.
| it'll help you get over the mental hump.
| tombert wrote:
| I might be able to do that with root comments, but a lot of
| my HN stuff is replies, meaning that there's context attached
| to what I'm writing.
|
| This of course does not mean that I couldn't fairly easily
| edit them to provide such context and "blog-ify" them, but
| that requires a bit more effort that I generally want.
| 6stringmerc wrote:
| It's a rush to feel appreciated when somebody takes the time to
| enjoy your craft - be it writing, cooking, or developing a tool.
| It's deflating to put something out there and it simply
| disappears into the ether, never to be recognized nor celebrated.
| 10 years into my Medium account I've experienced both and at this
| point, I simply can't quit because writing is my journey and
| audiences are fickle. So be it, such are the terms and conditions
| of the craft.
| mhlakhani wrote:
| This echoes well. The most popular posts on my blog are things
| where I wrote things for myself (e.g. reflections on my career),
| rather than trying to orient them for an audience or maximum
| clicks.
| varun_ch wrote:
| I like this idea - even for little tips I find along the way when
| trying to solve challenges.
|
| But then the new issue I have is I end up cluttering my blog with
| these lower effort posts that get in the way of the longer
| pieces. How do others solve this? Like separate feeds or
| something?
|
| Here's an example: https://varun.ch/posts/macos-keyboard/ I don't
| think this should be among by "posts" but do others have a
| "firehose" section or something, for random thoughts and tips?
| ozbonus wrote:
| I think this is good use for microblogging platforms like
| Mastodon and the others, to which you can link to from within
| your blog. If you've written a lot of mini-posts[1] that fit a
| theme you can edit them together into larger blog post
| eventually. If you have complete control over your website you
| could even feature some of your most recent or popular mini-
| posts on your front page.
|
| [1] I don't know what the best term is to describe theses kinds
| of posts that distinguishes them from long form blog posts.
| What do people do on Mastodon--toot? I'm just going with mini-
| post for now.
| some_furry wrote:
| Blogger beware: You can be a victim of your own success if you're
| not careful.
|
| Every time I follow this sort of advice, whatever I write
| inevitably becomes immensely popular and I end up hearing from a
| lot of people that whine loudly about my furry blog having furry
| art on it.
|
| (Most recent example:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105421)
|
| It's exhausting and if you don't reply on news sites, they'll
| send you social media messages and emails too.
|
| And if you'd like a poignant example of a time I followed this
| sort of advice, I wrote this one after I failed to understand why
| some applications were using HKDF different than I intuited it
| was meant to be used, and a _formal methods_ guy had to explain
| it to me because I was asking very loudly. It has since been
| cited by the Python cryptography library docs:
| https://soatok.blog/2021/11/17/understanding-hkdf/
| UncleEntity wrote:
| People will complain no matter what you do...death, taxes,
| stupid people on the internet.
| some_furry wrote:
| You're not wrong, but I felt these words of caution are
| something anyone should be aware of should they pursue TFA's
| advice.
|
| If you're doing it for intrinsically valuable reasons (i.e.,
| for yourself), wonderful!
|
| But if you're doing it to try to overcome writer's block or
| establish themselves as a recognized name in a community,
| there are downsides that people don't tend to talk about much
| because they might sound ungrateful (especially if they
| financially benefit from their popularity). I, individually,
| have no such monetization incentives at play.
| vonunov wrote:
| Geez, shove it down my throat, why don't you?
|
| I'm free all w--
| simonw wrote:
| This is the philosophy I use for my TIL posts - if something took
| me a few hours to figure out despite searching for a solution
| first it's a very strong signal that it is worth writing about.
|
| Here's my most recent one, about using a Tailscale exit node to
| proxy scraping traffic from GitHub Actions:
| https://til.simonwillison.net/tailscale/tailscale-github-act...
| quentinp wrote:
| The article says as much!
|
| > Simon Willison is the master of this and even has a subdomain
| devoted to his
| muzani wrote:
| Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange used to be such a good site for
| this - I'd just ask the simplest kind of question on how to do it
| and then answer it myself a few days later. It was great because
| SO would show up on a search; it ranked well on Google unlike
| personal blogs and public wikis. As a bonus, other people also
| maintain the answer and it stays up to date.
|
| This was one of my favorites:
| https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2757107/developing-for-a...
|
| It was a checklist and people would just add on to the checklist
| as things changed.
|
| Alas, it's not practical to do this anymore, because you'd just
| get downvoted to -13 under the current administration. Don't
| build atop other people's platforms, I guess.
| DeathArrow wrote:
| Trying to teach others will help you a lot in mastering a
| subject.
| dailykoder wrote:
| This hits a nerve and my urge to do that gets bigger and bigger
| by the day. I JUST have to do it (tm).
|
| Recently I have been playing around with the Microchip PolarFire
| SoC[1] and as I already know, there ain't __that__ much resources
| available when it comes to FPGA design. But oh man, microchip is
| a whole other level than Xilinx/AMD or anything Lattice/open
| source tools related. I fought so many battles to get things done
| and I finally have some kind of a workflow going and understand
| the chip. I really like it by now (if anyone wants to dive into
| hardware-software-codesign, it's a nice budget chip to do it
| with). But after every battle I fight, I think to myself: "God
| damn, I should write this one down on a blog somewhere. If I can
| only help one person in the future, even if it's myself, then
| that's a huge win". But the lazy (and kinda scared) me won until
| now.
|
| What if I don't write good enough (because english is not my
| mother tongue)? What if all I write is obvious to everyone else
| and I am the only one fighting? What if a friend will see this
| somehow and laugh at me?
|
| It doesn't matter. I should do it, because I feel like it. Thank
| you for this post, OP.
|
| - [1] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/development-tool/mpfs-
| disco-...
|
| Edit: My last few words reminded me of CHarles Bukowski's "Roll
| the dice". Maybe I should remind myself of that a bit more often:
| https://hellopoetry.com/poem/68266/roll-the-dice/
| OuterVale wrote:
| I think that perhaps the most important part of this is that if
| you write the post you wish you'd found, chances are you'll find
| it useful again at some point in the future.
|
| So much of what I write has proven itself useful to me again even
| years after publication. Adding search functionality to my site
| and including my microblog posts there has extended this further.
| madcaptenor wrote:
| Also, the act of writing it down helps you to fix things in
| memory.
|
| But I've searched for things and found my own old blog posts on
| occasion.
| gpjt wrote:
| Good point! I can never remember the steps to install the
| Ubiquiti management app on Arch after repaving my workstation
| (which I do ever other year or so). But I blogged about it in
| 2019, so I use that as a reminder.
| iamwil wrote:
| I have different types of posts to support different habits of
| blogging.
|
| 1. First, I have classic essays that I wrote by hand. I'll ask an
| LLM for thematic flow or grammar checking, but it's my thoughts.
| It's more sporatic, but they're things I'm compelled to talk
| about and think deeply about. Example is on how visual
| programming is stuck on nodes-and-wires.
| https://interjectedfuture.com/visual-programming-is-stuck-on...
|
| 2. Next, I have posts that I write on a schedule. These are what
| I call lab notes, which I'll post every monday no matter what.
| These are easy to write because I just recount what I've been
| doing the past week and what challenges and wins there are. This
| exercises the muscle of posting something. Example is this past
| week on type checking https://interjectedfuture.com/lab-
| note-60-writing-words-and-...
|
| 3. I do write TILs, though these don't occur for me nearly as
| much at the moment, due to the type of work I'm doing. It's like
| my own stackoverflow, I guess. Example is on the common footgun
| of useEffect. https://interjectedfuture.com/today-i-learned/til-
| message-ha...
|
| 4. Lastly, I have posts where I had conversations with LLMs in
| depth on a niche topic that I think others would find
| interesting. If it's a back and forth, at the end of the
| conversation, I'll have it write a blog post based on what I
| thought the salient points were. If it's deep research, I'll just
| post that. I mark it clearly at the top it was LLM generated. The
| generation can be good enough that it's worth the post for humans
| to read. But also, in the hopes that the next model might pick it
| up, as an indication of what's good an interesting. It's
| basically one single sample eval based on my taste of what's
| good. Example is how algebraic effects are handled across Koka,
| Eff, OCaml, and Unison: https://interjectedfuture.com/algebraic-
| handler-lookup-in-ko...
|
| All's to say to people, there's different modalities of blogging.
| If you pick just one, you might feel pressure to write when you
| have nothing to write. But if you don't write you don't get in
| the habit, which is why I do the lab notes. It makes me post even
| if I don't have anything to say, or the time to say it.
| DavidPP wrote:
| Thanks for taking the time to explain your process. I'm just
| starting out, and so far I was planning to:
|
| - Radar: just cool categorized articles, libraries, apps, etc.
| that I found during the week and organized in weekly drops.
|
| - Guides: In my mind, those were closer to TIL than real
| guides, though I couldn't figure out how to name them. I love
| TIL for that.
|
| - Playground: Forcing myself to share prototypes, snippets,
| etc.
|
| I also have tons of LLM chats that could become content.
| Instead of trying to rewrite them, I will just share them as
| they are (while being transparent).
|
| The main idea, as you said, is to find a modality that works
| well for me and force myself to write more.
| svilen_dobrev wrote:
| somehow i can't get myself doing this.. publication stuff.
|
| There are tons of things i have (accumulated) to say, but
| something is stopping me. Probably the current not-easiness of it
| (plain html isn't that fun), and the need of investing yet-
| another-little-of-myself to make-that-easier (software? it's what
| i breathe), and some kind of tiredness of it..
|
| There, i said it. Maybe one day.. i will.
|
| have fun
|
| https://www.svilendobrev.com/waterfly/
|
| https://www.svilendobrev.com/rabota/specart.html
| drakonka wrote:
| This is how I've been using my blog for years - writing about
| something I did to process and solidify that knowledge, even if I
| think it's something silly that most other people already know or
| won't find interesting. I end up getting emails from people who
| found some random post useful sometimes, which is a fun bonus.
| And sometimes when I am googling something my own blog comes up
| and then I remember I've done or thought about that thing before.
| nicbou wrote:
| This habit has turned into a lifestyle business for me. I
| document German bureaucracy for a living.
|
| I gave a talk about the "why" which turned into a long blog post:
| https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/all-about-berlin
|
| I really wish more people did this. I make it a point to show my
| gratitude when I encounter similar resources. One helped me cycle
| across Korea. Another helped me fix a very specific device.
|
| It's a shame that Google, social media and AI strip mine the work
| of these helpful people and rob them of their reward.
| Ir0nMan wrote:
| I'd suggest never starting any story with the first 6 words used
| in this article.
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