Re:Your templating engine sucks and everything you've ever w...
by dools on Sunday December 11, 2011 @07:02AM
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Yeah, I'd say that's a pretty fair assessment. I personally find this style of writing more interesting to read (which is why I emulate that) but I'm also not particularly experienced at writing so it's good to get feedback on what works and what doesn't for particular audiences.
I am definitely using a blog as a means of getting "outside the vacuum", though, and as you say evaluating my own opinions by putting them out in public and seeing how people react.
Presenting something as fact is an extremely quick way to find out if you're wrong. It's much faster than asking a question. The impulse to correct is stronger than the one to answer. So I interpret the post as the blogger's subconscious attempt at verifying and normalizing his opinions.
In this way, a blog is mostly a self development tool. I should start one of my own, I think. I never have before because I lack the hubris to think that my little discoveries are novel enough that anyone else would care. But I see now, maybe that's not the point.