You Will Suck at Blogging, but That's OK!

The post argues that early failures are normal in both coding and blogging. The author compares a mistake in an early VB.NET assignment with his first blog post, which took hours and came from perfectionism and fear of criticism.

He says he has improved through repetition and that there is no shortcut or silver bullet. To get better at coding or blogging, the only path is to keep doing the work.

Reading notes

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• The author presents the post as a complement to a previous text about wanting to blog.
• He says that writing on the blog for almost two years and programming for more than ten years do not make him an expert; they only mean more time practicing.
• In his first VB.NET experience, he finished too early, missed public variable fields, and saw the program break in several places.
• That experience made him realize his lack of knowledge in OOP.
• In the blog, the first post took about 4 hours to write, not counting editing, and he only published around 2 a.m.
• He attributes this to perfectionism and fear of being criticized or ridiculed.
• After publishing, he says no one came to troll him and that he received positive and encouraging feedback from other developers.
• The author states that improvement comes with constant practice, even when progress seems not to happen.
• He says that he now does not write public variables and that public properties have become muscle memory.
• The practical conclusion is that there is no shortcut to learning to code or blog: you have to do the work and keep writing.