There are so many benefits around having a personal blog that I'm surprised about reading all these negative comments.
I started blogging about tech and security when I was 13/14 years old in my native language. Then, when I felt more mature, I switched to a new blog where English was the main language. I started improving my language skills, getting some donation from kind strangers for my blog posts and using it as a self-branding forever running-side project.
Now, 20 years later I still have my personal blog and I still write about tech, but only recently I created some "personal related" tabs, like the "/now" page, enriching it every month or having a more personal about page. Why? Because I like going to a blog a see that behind that address there is a real person with emotions and dreams, it's like entering in their home and have a look around.
1. Improve your language skills
2. Self-branding
3. Memorize better topics you care about
4. Share what you learned with others
About LLM, I don't care if they scrape my blog, I use LLMs every day, and if some stuff I write helps to enrich an LLM with a positive impact I would be more than happy to let it happens, the more we write, the less fake-news and low-quality content would ingest and used.
I'm a Senior Product Engineer based in Málaga, Spain.
I've been working as an Extreme Programmer for more than 8 years now, and I have more than 10 years of experience as a software engineer.
I worked at Thoughtworks and then VMware Tanzu Labs, former Pivotal Labs.
Ex-VMware due to the European layoff, I'm looking for a new role as a product engineer.
I'm currently focusing on delivering value to customers applying the Extreme Programming methodology (TDD, CI/CD, lean methodology, fast-feedback, etc.)
Email: [email protected] ~
{ it's an alias email to deal with spammers ;) }
I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience, included 8 as Extreme Programmer.
I'm looking for interesting opportunities and new challenges, I'm a product-engineer/T-shape engineer focused mostly on the backend side.
I have several years of experience working on different stacks and industries, joining clients' teams on different products and projects, helping them deliver value to the respective customers.
Agree, I spoke with some taxi drivers who were there just for the summer season and they told me that they've been doing that every year, sharing a small flat with other taxi drivers/workers to save money and to earn enough to live the rest of the year back in their towns.
In Italy washing the coffee pot with detergent is considered a sin.
The "oily" that you describe gives a better taste, and it's something that every "nonna"(grandmother) teaches you, if you want to clean your coffee pot just put it under hot water and brush it with your fingers, that's it.
Source: I'm from the south of Italy, and I have Nonnas :D
Pretty common if you ask me.
Especially, if you work in companies where pair programming is a thing, you do TDD (or at least write tests), have feature toggles, and a CI/CD pipeline in place.
I'm a happy Obsidian user too, it's probably the application I use the most.
The amount of plugins available is incredible (my favs: Excalidraw and Calendar, Obsidian Git)
I also wrote an article about why I switched from Notion to Obsidian a few years ago.
In my experience, years of professional experience != Seniority
You could have been for 18years in a company where you were the senior just because you were the only one who knew how the old monolite work.
You could have been for 18years in a company without knowing more than what you were just doing.
This just to say that the seniority it's not something you obtain with your years but with the experiences and situations you find yourself in and especially what do you learn from them.