Blogumentation

Writing Blog Posts as a Method of Documentation

Jamie Tanna (https://www.jvt.me @jamietanna)

What is it?

How did I get into it?

Started with some blogging

Finding things that weren't documented well - make the world better for the next person

Blogumentation - Writing Blog Posts as a Method of Documentation https://www.jvt.me/posts/2017/06/25/blogumentation/

  • Gotchas
  • Tips-and-tricks
  • Best practices

Who is your audience?

Yourself

Others are an added bonus!

What are the benefits?

Building up a collection of posts

Posts by year (as of 2019-09-10):
2016 1
2017 22
2018 60
2019 82
% wc -w content/posts/*.md
176873 total

Guest author programs

Improving written communication

Wait, how did I do that thing, again?

Hey, here's a link

Having it help others

Upward trend of visits over time from 2016-05 to 2019-04

What do I blog about though?

Interested?

https://www.jvt.me/events/homebrew-website-club-nottingham/ is a good place to come and start working on it!