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I document technical things on my blog and hardly anyone reads it. But later on when I need that thing again, I just go there and I have the perfect documentati
by ZeWaren 2y ago
I document technical things on my blog and hardly anyone reads it.
But later on when I need that thing again, I just go there and I have the perfect documentation available for the topic (it's perfect since I wrote it hahaha).
- tverbeure 2y agoThis happens to me all the time. I could make notes about how I did something and lose them, or I could spend an hour or two extra and convert it into a blog post, and I'll be able to refer to it over and over again.
- forinti 2y agoOver the years, my blog has become exactly that.
- snozolli 2y agoSame. I keep a couple of blogs on different topics and try to write up any challenge I come across. Not only does it help to cement ideas in my head and expose areas I'm foggy about, but I've referred back to my previous experience this way countless times.
- plufz 2y agoDo you get any traffic? Does it feel worth the extra time compared to just doing local notes?
- snozolli 2y agoI don't know. I stopped bothering to look, since it's never going to drive income or anything. It's worth it to me because 1) I get to help others, which brings satisfaction and 2) I can read what I wrote from anywhere and send someone a link if necessary.
- rasso 2y agoCare to share your blog‘s url?
- sesm 2y agoI guess it's https://zewaren.net https://zewaren.net , the content looks exactly like GP described it
- righthand 2y agoYour intention is still to pass on the knowledge though regardless of traffic otherwise why even publish if it’s just for you? What is the difference from the Documents dir at that point?
- saagarjha 2y agoPeople occasionally stumble on it and find value.
- righthand 2y agoRight the intention to share knowledge.
- monsieurbanana 2y agoBut not the only or main intention. He's never stated that he didn't want to share knowledge and he doesn't have to, it's already implied.
- geerlingguy 2y agoI can stay in my browser and use Google, DuckDuckGo, or even my on-site search (I use Apache Solr, I'm a little weird compared to the typical hosted blog) and don't have to go into some webapp or search on some local notes app. I can also add permalinks to any of the posts from anywhere, and share them in public documentation or bug reports and such, a handy feature.
- jinushaun 2y agoThat’s why I blog. It’s basically long-form GitHub gist, publicly available on the internet.
- gitprolinux 2y agoI blog for own tech support. TopCoders.cloud
- XCSme 2y agoSame, I created https://softuts.com https://softuts.com exactly for this, to write fixes to technical issues I encounter, when I can't find another solution via a Google search. There starts to be some traffic, I am happy to assume that any person visits my blog for a fix will probably save a good amount of debugging time.
- Sylamore 2y agoI used to do that, now I just keep a OneNote with the things that would have been blog entries once upon a time - it's available across all my devices and I can export it to PDF when I do need to share something with someone - and I don't have to worry about someone defacing or hacking the site hosting it.
- cheema33 2y agoI used to do that. Use OneNote. And then I discovered that OneNote really sucks when it comes to 1. Syncing across devices. 2. Large documents I searched high and low and found Obsidian. Now the idea of using OneNote sends shivers down my spine.
- ethanol-brain 2y agoIn my experience, OneNote syncs more reliably than Obsidian. Although, I still prefer using Obsidian for other reasons.
- jakub_g 2y agoI'm not a heavy blogger though I have a bunch of StackOverflow answers, gists etc. It happened to me a few times that I forgot I wrote something down, only to find it via google search.
- alok-g 2y agoHopefully you are also contributing knowledge to AI so that it becomes more discoverable to others as well.
- RataNova 2y agoIt’s like building your own personal knowledge base