Pretty sure that I’m really the only person that cares about it. That’s fine with me. I write for myself. Much of what I’ve written has “aged out,” by now (for example, I have a series on the Swift Programming Language[1], that may reflect dated observations).
When I write stuff, it helps me to “firm up” my own knowledge and understanding.
I’m no longer seeking work, but have a LinkedIn profile, so anyone that wants to know me, can get an idea. I basically stay away from LI. Every now and then, I may make a post, when I do a release of something .
I have referred to my own blog live in an interview for things I don’t quite remember the syntax for. It’s a huge boost.
I also will check out candidates’ blogs if they list them. Some people have “blogs” but the content is mostly throwaway or hello world, but anything more than that is impressive to me. (Same thing with GitHub, hopefully it contains more than just forks of various repos with minimal diffs.)
> Pretty sure that I’m really the only person that cares about it.
Even if you don't get any useful organic traffic, I find having a technical blog is useful so that when you do go to interviews or submit resumes, hirers can read your blog and quickly establish that you know what you are talking about.
Unrelated note, the inline images (at least in the infrastructure post) makes reading quite hard on mobile since in some parts it's literally a single word per line.
No need to fix it if you don't want to but may be useful.
The images do resize and reflow, to adapt to the viewing context. My phone is an iPhone Mini, and I use that as a lowest common denominator, although I do test with an original SE.
But if there's a place where the text doesn't separate (and flow below), that's a bug, so I'll review.
Specifically in [0] all the images after and including the stirrups have less than one word of text next to them. If it helps inventions cuts off as inventi-ons. I'm on iPhone 8 safari if that helps but is also an older target so as I said if it's outside of scope not necessarily something I'm terribly worried about, it's still readable just a little annoying.
Good browsers come with mobile emulation in their dev tools that let you test with arbitrary viewports as well as the viewports of common phone models.
There was a link to a post, here, some time ago, that was about why we should write, and it was mostly for self-benefit. That's why I do it. I'm retired, and spend time learning and honing my skills. I write code for free, for folks that can't afford folks like me. I like to do a good job at it, and I like learning new stuff.
I've found that writing [tutorials, especially] is a great way for me to learn.
Yes. I started writing a newsletter about ai/ml and data science focused on geoscience far the people in my research center. I found that I have all sorts of things I want to discuss and think about and writing a newsletter is a way to get it out of my head and into a format I can interact with and I’m not even sure anyone has ever read my newsletter. I just figured just in case someone is interested in what I’m thinking about that maybe it’s better to share ideas than write them in a journal.
Pretty sure that I’m really the only person that cares about it. That’s fine with me. I write for myself. Much of what I’ve written has “aged out,” by now (for example, I have a series on the Swift Programming Language[1], that may reflect dated observations).
When I write stuff, it helps me to “firm up” my own knowledge and understanding.
I’m no longer seeking work, but have a LinkedIn profile, so anyone that wants to know me, can get an idea. I basically stay away from LI. Every now and then, I may make a post, when I do a release of something .
[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/
[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/series/swiftwater/