Write an Excellent Programming Blog
summary
Argues that writing is a tool for thinking and problem solving, showing that drafting an explanation lets someone diagnose a Python concurrency bug in about 1.5 days instead of weeks, and that publishing narrow, long-lived essays connects specialists—advice about connection pooling led to guidance that helped an HBase driver now downloaded ~1,000 times/day. Lays out five useful article types (story, opinion, how‑to, how‑it‑works, review) and promotes discovery via planet aggregators and RSS rather than SEO.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45Why Write
- 3:23My Blog
- 5:20Youre a Specialist
- 8:50Youre an Expert
- 9:20Seth Godin
- 14:16glyph Lefkowitz
- 16:55Opinions
- 18:36Julia Evans
- 20:50Kenneth Reis
- 23:03How something works
- 24:20Favorite recent example
- 25:44Reviews
- 28:07Book Review
- 30:56How to find an audience
- 36:51Practice
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