It's funny, but when I talk with friends or colleagues about some of the articles I wrote, one of the most common question is: Why are u blogging?
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I blog because I like to share things I've done in case they are useful to other people. But I also blog because I like to write down things that I've done so that I can remind myself of the thing one day when I need to do it again. So in reality, I blog so that I can teach future Phil how to do something and hopefully in the meantime other people find it useful.
Teaching the future self is a great point!
You know you're doing a good job when you search for something and you find your post in the results!
For that you also need some help from uncle Google XD
I blog because I want to share whatever knowledge I have (which isn't a lot tbh) with anyone and everyone out there. Especially to the beginners. There's something addictive about blogging- and it's a good addiction. Blogging makes me feel better!
Few years ago I read about commonplace books, and how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Abraham Lincoln all kept a commonplace book. Roughly speaking it's a scrap book of everything they find interesting. So I started doing the same thing.
Whilst I'd love become an amateur write or literary critic at the moment coding consumes most of my time, hence my commonplace book - without me wanting it to - turned into a personal technical blog.
The reason why I started to publicly publish some of what I write is because it's fun!
The "giving back to the community" is a good answer, I'll use it is anyone I might want to impress asks but for me it's just fun. I do it in private so why no publish 1% of it just to test the waters :)
Agree, on the other hand it can also be a lot of work. Indeed when I write on a notebook, I can be inaccurate, write just couple of pointers, etc.
While writing on a blog, I need to tell a more complete story, define a structure about the thing I want to document.
Absolutely. Most cases it takes me a week to write on tutorial.
It's hard work. But I like to believe all this is helping me somehow
(It's not that I've been doing this for a long time though)
Pretty similar to my workflow XD
I blog partly to remember things I have just learned, partly to memorialize things that I'm proud of and partly to help others out
"Almost all the stuff I know, most of the stuff I learned and will learn come from a blog in one form or another." This is so true. Recently I have been installing some tools on Debian OS, and I've benefited a lot from people that shared their experiences and how to(s) on their blogs.
I blog on dev.to because I think it's beneficial for my career, and I think people enjoy what I blog about, and I just like it :)