Blogging Makes You A Better Developer
Throughout my career, I’ve found that I’d figure things out, and several months or years later, I’d bump into someone else that was trying to do something similar, and I’d think or say: “Yea, I can’t remember the specifics, but I definitely remember dealing with that.” That was the original motivation for starting my blog: to build a personal catalog of things I’ve learned that I could refer back to should the things become relevant again.
It started as a bit of a hobby but eventually became part of my weekly professional life. I’d research my assignments, and I’d track the journey. Once I finished, I’d organize my list of steps into an article and publish it. The more I wrote, the more views my blog would see, and it became exciting to watch traffic grow and track statistics.
I was reading an article about the Feynman Technique and realized that this is similar to how I approached writing.
- Start with a concept: a problem I’m trying to solve for an assignment
- Teach it to a toddler: figure it out/make it work
- Identify gaps: are there things I don’t understand about the solution or aspects that I am not able to articulate?
- Review & simplify: write an article that’s concise and easy to understand
