Hello World
Hi there. So, I want to give a try at blogging. Why, would you ask ? Because on a daily basis, I read blogs. Quite a lot. I find it to be a marvelous source of high quality content about topics I care about, whether for professional topics or for my hobbies.
And the more I think about it, the more I think that all those people, taking time to write quality content to share knowledge on the internet, put A LOT of effort to produce such content, most of the time for no money. Of course, you can think about exposure, about the positive impact for your career (a blog is of course a nice showcase of your soft and hard skills), but writing (technical) content "for the masses" remains a not-so-easy task. I personally define it as a skill, or maybe and art, or maybe both. On one side, you must master the content : you must have at least a (very) good understanding of the topic you want to talk about, or even master it. But you must also handle the style : being able to shape the information you want to provide, to make it accessible to the readers, can be very difficult. You must give enough background to introduce your point, take time to bring the core information, being careful not to take shortcuts in the "details" (which, sometimes, are not !), putting yourself in the place of the reader, asking yourself if he would understand what you are talking about, while making sure your writing keeps getting interesting enough to keep the reader focus...
So, as a big consumer of such content, I want to try to write too. The attempt has multiple purpose :
- having an "event log" of my hobbies and experiments : I have some spare projects to work on on my spare time, with more or less complexity, time scope, fun... Having blog to talk about it is a way to record what I have done/tried/failed/adapted
- share with other hackers and developers about the topics I like
- improve my skills on technical writing and sharing : being able to share knowledge on a topic is often an underestimated skill, and is pretty important in my professional field. I have given a few talks on tech topics in front of small tech communities before, which gave me good pointers on what can be done better when sharing knowledge, but writing seems to be a valid tool too which I have not played a lot with.
So here comes this blog. I have no target schedule of posting, it will comes as my projects live. Maybe it will work and I will post on monthly (weekly ?) basis, maybe it will be a mere dud and I will stop right away. Let's see where it brings us !