And I'd much, much rather read at my own pace than be forced to watch at someone else's pace.
Unfortunately, the profitable use of AI will be to do the exact reverse...
"ChatGPT, generate a how-to video by ripping off the content from https://pierre-couy.dev/tinkering/2023/03/turning-rpi-into-e... - and don't forget to insert adverts for three different VPN providers in there too"
I envy you your superpower!
Without the efforts of these people I would have continued to waste time trying to figure something that was important to me at the time, but out of my knowledge sphere.
In a way you are giving people life when you share your knowledge.
On a more serious note, this is one of the main points that drove me to start such a blog. I've been the one learning from other people's posts for a long time. Now that I've reached a point where I can give back to the community, I'm really proud of the positive feedback I've got.
Moreover, while writing this took some time, I actually enjoyed going back over what I did and putting it in a way that I can share with the world. I can't stop thinking of ideas for future articles
Agreed. Building within constraints (even strict, self-imposed constraints) is more fun and interesting.
It takes a lot of time and energy to put these sorts of things together but they have value beyond the original topic (e.g. perhaps one of those barriers you encountered designing this is a barrier to other problems[1]).
[0] Sometimes that's perception, sometimes it's "I don't type very quickly/use a phone exclusively for my computing needs"
[1] Unexpectedly, your site produced a TLS error in Firefox on one of my laptops, so it's causing me to investigate a problem I didn't know I had :)