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Most bloggers aren't ever going to "run a real app in production."

Most {net,dev,sec}ops engineers aren't writing blogs.




> Most {net,dev,sec}ops engineers aren't writing blogs.

Unfortunately, in my experience this is true. It's not for lack of motivation or desire, it's because my day job is stressful and tiring. The last thing I want to do when I come home in the evening is to spend my valuable personal time writing a blog about what I did at work. I would rather spend time with my family, or do something like that.

Of course, I could try to schedule time during work hours to write a blog on the company website by talking with my manager about it. Unless this advances any strategic or political agenda, it's unlikely to happen.


You could write about non work stuff that interests you, and only do it on occasional instances where you feel like writing, and pay someone like wordpress.com a pittance to handle the tech. This is what most web logs were like in the beginning.

I write a post on my blog about my interests once every month or two, and maybe crosspost it to Facebook, but I like that I get to write down my thoughts on a site I own.

If you don't get much enjoyment out of writing period though, not much reason to blog.


I personally blog about things I've found while working that have been a pain or a "oh hey, cool!" that I've not seen documented anywhere easily, so I write about them under the term "blogumentation" (blogging as a form of self-documenting) https://www.jvt.me/posts/tags/blogumentation/, reasoning found in https://www.jvt.me/posts/2017/06/25/blogumentation/

I've found it useful for myself and colleagues, but also it's really awesome seeing hits from Google and other mediums where people are obviously finding it organically and sharing around through various means. Helping others find new / better ways to do things is really awesome


I suspect most who do also don't feel like dealing with all their day job BS just to run a blog. Not when they can just use a hosted platform, or throw things up on S3 or something.


They may not. But most of them get asked about Docker and all kind of "shiny new keywords" in interviews right?




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