Welcome to yet another blog on the internet.
Why did I decide to start my own blog
why would a programmer or any IT person make a blog and spend time writing instead of investing in another thing.
Improve my technical writing skills
I hate writing. I’m not good at it. I write code. I am able to take algorithms and use a programming language to describe what it is suppose to do. I find that skill does not directly translate into taking thoughts and ideas and presenting them in coherent sentences.
A lot of programmer are really good at writing code, but not at explaining it in a report, a documentation or peers.
How does one become better at writing? As with everything else, it takes practice. I know I need to improve my writing skills, so this blog will be my practice ground.
Online presence
As an IT person I need to have a good online presence that will increase my chance of getting hired. It’s some kind of marketing or promoting. Many people are active on social plateforms like twitter, facebook, reedit … but i just decided to make my own place. I think a github account, a blog and a linkedin profile are enough for me.
Richard Feynman
Many people think that learning is being able to remember every single line of a 600 page book, every word from a 3 hours lecture or every minute from a 10hour youtube playlist. Well some lucky people have this super power but i’m not one of them. so i decided to follow Richard Feynman technique. which I resume in Pretend to teach it to a child that’s why I’m posting what i learn and try to explain it as simple as possible. Pretending that the reader is just a kid who stampled across my blog. Feynman technique explained.
Why using jekyll
When i first wanted to start blogging I choosed medium. but it didn’t take long to decide that i really should make something that I control. after googling i found jekyll which is a static site generator based on ruby. it’s open source, well maintained by a great community, customizable, have tons of both free and paid themes and also you can deploy it with github pages. it was PERFECT !!!