Why I Write in Public

I don't write this blog because I think it'll get a large audience. Most personal engineering blogs don't, and that's fine. I write it because the act of writing something for strangers forces a different kind of clarity than writing for myself.

A private note can stay vague. "Handle the edge case better" is a fine private note — future me will remember what that meant. A public post can't get away with that. If I can't explain which edge case and why it mattered, I haven't actually understood the problem yet. Public writing is a compression test for whether an idea is real.

The secondary benefit

There's also just... a paper trail. Six months from now when I've forgotten why I made some architectural call, there's a decent chance I wrote it down here, with the actual reasoning, not the reconstructed-after-the-fact version.

What this blog is not

It's not going to be a content calendar. No SEO-driven post cadence, no "10 tips" listicles. If I have nothing worth saying, I say nothing that week. That's the whole editorial policy.