Like many software engineers, I’ve often wondered why engineers blog. Is it for reputation? To show off? To market themselves? I used to see all these tech blogs and think, “Where do these people find the time? How do they do this amazing work? How can they be so articulate?”.

The above reservations I had always put me off from having my own. But then a question struck, what if these people had the same reservations? I cannot count number of times I was unstuck from the problem at hand by some obscure or a rather well known blog post. I cannot even fathom how much harder it is to learn just from the docs. I cannot quantify how much I learned through some of those blogs. There is nothing better than learning by doing and having to face a problem, but I think reading what other people’s problems are and what they did to solve it comes a close(maybe not very close) second.

Why am I blogging?

Over the time I have realised that I tend to forget the things that I have learned or rather jump on to the next shiny before doing the earlier one due dilligence. And I lose track of things I learnt. I am also not quite good at articulating what I want to say. I am hoping that blogging would be my trick to solve those issues by

  • journaling my learnings
  • doing the due dilligence to my learnings
  • improving my communication skills
  • avoiding jumping to next shiny thing (I had this domain since 2018)

My rules

I am also setting some more rules that I want to strive by:

  • Will be mostly about things I want to learn.
  • Will try to document about things I am good at (for my future self’s sake).
  • Will try to make the articles as simple as possible.
  • Will not try to blog about something just because it is the current fad.

These are my motives and my rules. If these help someone else along the way, that’s just a bonus. If I get some marketing and reputation, that’s also a bonus. The primary audience here is future me, but you’re welcome to join the journey.

Let’s see if I can persist with blogging before jumping on to the next shiny thing. No promises, but I’ll try my best.