Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand topics better

Re:Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand t... by sgarland on Monday August 14, 2023 @07:42AM (#37119883)

My blocker was in infra shaming (from myself). I had started on WordPress years ago on a t3.micro instance, and all was well. Then I wanted to self-host since I have a substantial homelab and at the time, was an SRE. But I knew that my K8s (k3os technically) cluster wasn’t great, and I wasn’t using Helm correctly, and… all of this made me think I had to get everything perfect, exactly how I wanted it, before I could use it for publishing tech opinions.

A few weeks ago I found out you can have GitHub Pages with a custom domain, so I extracted my posts, converted them to Markdown, and now I run Hugo. So much easier, and I don’t fret about what imaginary people might think about me.

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Re:Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand t... by cal85 on Monday August 14, 2023 @08:10AM (#37120107)

What made you stop fretting about that? Did you make the GH-hosted blog anonymous?

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Re:Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand t... by sgarland on Monday August 14, 2023 @08:15AM (#37120153)

Nope - you’re welcome to see it if you’d like (but there’s a huge gap in content, the only new stuff isn’t pure tech, and I make no guarantees about the accuracy of the older content) - it’s my username.dev

It was purely self-loathing/projection (idk, not a psychologist), where I was convinced that if _I_ thought my setup was bad, then surely others would judge me and ignore the content as well. I have no idea how I snapped out of that absurd belief, but I’m happy I did, because I really enjoy writing.

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Re:Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand t... by drewr on Monday August 14, 2023 @08:43AM (#37120392)

Read the first couple of posts and found them very insightful. Thank you for leaving them public.

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Re:Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand t... by Nezteb on Monday August 14, 2023 @01:22PM (#37123735)

I have this exact same problem.

Went from GHP/Jekyll (2012), to GHP/Hugo (2013), to GHP/Hexo (2014), to headless WordPress/React (2017), to Ghost (2018), to Netlify CMS (2019), to Vercel/Gatsby (2020), to Astro (2021), to custom Elixir/Phoenix (2022), to Micro.blog and Substack (2023)... (dates are approximate within ~6 months)

I'm still debating what to do next. My motivations go back and forth between "learn some new tech" and "write the dang thing".

Either way, I'd really like to stick to something for more than a year. Ideally I'd separate my "site" and "blog".

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