irix20 | 9 years ago | on: A Story of a Fraudulent Coder
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irix20 | 9 years ago | on: A Story of a Fraudulent Coder
> Posting and sharing your experiences can help you reflect on where you went wrong, and what you did right.
You can reflect on something without broadcasting it to the entire world, and if you're a novice, how do you really know what you did right? How do you know your advice isn't leading other novices astray?
> This is a perfectly valid thing to do.
It's "valid" as in legal, but hardly commendable. This style of blogging is generally unhelpful, unproductive, and it reeks of self-promotion.
irix20 | 9 years ago | on: A Story of a Fraudulent Coder
> I kept an eye on his blog and he was publishing a coding tutorial every week
Why would such an inexperienced, ignorant developer need a blog? D. Richard Hipp doesn't have one. Neither does Fabrice Bellard. But for some reason, medium.com is teeming with blog posts from people I've never heard of (some of which end up on HN's front page), usually dogmatically dispensing bad advice about how to program or denigrating the profession and those who practice it by accusing them of racism, sexism, elitism, or some other -ism.
Have bootcamps made this style of blogging a requirement?
EDIT: Downvote all you like. Novice programmers shouldn't have blogs. A blog is a public platform, a soapbox, for sharing your thoughts. As a novice, your thoughts likely aren't worth sharing and might even be harmful. Spend more time on programming and less time on self-promotion and you too may one day be as good as Bellard or Hipp.
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A better analogy would be someone starting a medical blog after having read a book or two and crafting a profile for it that gives the reader the impression that they're some kind of medical professional. This is in effect what these medium bloggers do when they claim to be a "fullstack" developer specializing in RoR, JS, React, Node.js, etc. despite having only graduated from a bootcamp last week.
> While arguable not 'commendable' is it 100% of the time reprehensible?
I never said it was reprehensible, but it's unfortunate that the people whose voices are heard the most are generally the least worth hearing, that many of the best programmers never blog at all while these incompetents drone on and on, and that many of the best programmer blogs, such as Pershing on Programming, aren't read.