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If I can write something I've recently learned down in an explanatory fashion, it helps solidify that learning in my memory.
If the thing I learned was something obscure, if I've written it down in a blog, then I know that I only need search my blog for that bit (and, bonus, it's already in an explanatory format) rather than hoping I can reconstruct the Googling process that allowed me to learn it in the first place (which with links dying over time, can be problematic - especially for edge-case stuff)
When I inevitably get asked a question about something at work, if I've already blogged it, I can respond to the person with a "here: read this" rather than having to engage in the back-and-forth of a full explanation.
It's just a habit that makes life easier. Plus, it's kind of cool when someone tells you "your page was the first google hit" (or you look at your blog's analytics and see how many people around the world were drawn to your blog for a given bit of information). It's really funny when it's someone at work posting into a Slack channel, "I'd run into this problem, so I hit Google, and the first result I got back (or first result that explained it in an easily understood manner) was in your blog".
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Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
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Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
That too. Though, usually, my inability to forget means that I usually remember "I know I wrote something about that, once". Usually, though, I'll think "it was a few weeks ago" and it turns out to have been a few years ago. :p
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I've been a habitual writer from early on:
It's just a habit that makes life easier. Plus, it's kind of cool when someone tells you "your page was the first google hit" (or you look at your blog's analytics and see how many people around the world were drawn to your blog for a given bit of information). It's really funny when it's someone at work posting into a Slack channel, "I'd run into this problem, so I hit Google, and the first result I got back (or first result that explained it in an easily understood manner) was in your blog".
That is very cool feeling, I agree.
it's also very cool when you google for a solution you don't remember anymore and you find your own post! :-)
That too. Though, usually, my inability to forget means that I usually remember "I know I wrote something about that, once". Usually, though, I'll think "it was a few weeks ago" and it turns out to have been a few years ago. :p