Why I started this blog?
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. ...