A Codeblogger's Apology

After working in the industry for years and reading lots of programming blogs, I finally decided to start my own. A decent respect for the opinions of mankind demands I say why. Also, I wanted to start with more than 1 post.

For one thing, I finally feel like I know a thing or two, and it might be worth somebody’s time to read my thoughts (probably not though; stop reading and see your family or something). For another, I always hated most available blogging platforms, I tried various wordpress-like solutions; getting them to be the sort of thing I would want to use was always too much trouble. And having to use a database in the first place seemed ugly, even when it was hosted & managed by somebody else. It’s not like I want people commenting directly on my posts (I have email; I can update my posts if I think you’ve said something worth publishing).

As a mostly-backend guy, I don’t ordinarily keep up with the latest & greatest of web frameworks. I came across middleman as a side effect of trying to build a local copy of the terraform docs, and determined that, blogging-wise, it was the Final Fix. I subsequently switched to gatsby, but then yage didn’t work out long-term for Burroughs either.

Mostly, it’s that having been in charge of hiring programmers, I realized how much I preferred candidates who had programming blogs, so I could look and see if they knew anything or not. So I figured, shit, I’m probably going to try to get a new job someday…