Personal blog
Blog vs. medium/linkedin articles
- Pros/cons for both
- Blog can't be deleted by third party
- Allows dofollow links for further projects after building authority
- Blog has a nice single place for personal knowledgebase
- Blog can be used to practice other programming projects too
On the other hand:
- Medium/linkedin might have better SEO/visibility off the bat
- Medium/linkedin has immediate reach to contacts and users
- No technical setup - just start posting
- Linkedin directly visible to recruiters as well
Inspiration for writing/blogging - digital gardens/wikis
- This blog post is interesting: https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/
- This entire site is just perfect: https://notes.busterbenson.com/. Very noteworthy is the codex at https://notes.busterbenson.com/codex.
- Cool note on having a "now" page https://nownownow.com/about
- On a lesser note also: https://www.brendanschlagel.com/canon/
- Lots of technical help on digital gardening https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners
- And Maggie from above's blog https://maggieappleton.com/
- Also see https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes for inspiration
- Maybe check this 11ty template? https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/eleventy-high-performance-blog/ though the layout/design/ui could use a simplification.
- Neat simple design: https://capwatkins.com/
Tech stack
For tech stack see notes on static sites. Also see recipe for 11ty multi repo site.
Blog post ideas
- Using Blazor for simple crud app
- A practical and simple near real time architecture (intraday PL app)
- A simple Azure sql warehouse framework
- Some tips for using PetaPoco/Dapper/Other ORMS - also ORM Pros/cons
- Sql row compression metrics - a free meal?
- Different approaches for first in group
- A simple model for generic repository pattern
- SSIS simple performance tricks - fast load, buffers etc.
- N+1 ORM anti-pattern
- Git/SSDT/jira for sql developers
- Trying to fit sql with continuous delivery
- Sql efficient previous/next row