I have a blog. Almost nobody reads it. That's okay!
I treat it like a public notebook. When I find something interesting, I write a quick blog post. When I have to muddle through a technical issue that requires piecing together multiple other sources on the Internet, I write a blog post to summarize. I've written blog posts on getting Walmart security videos to play (Verint codec is a bitch), decoding Marine Corps brig phone call audio time stamps, setting up CAC readers and DoD Root Certificates on a Mac, actually moving Time Machine history to a new Mac (which should happen automatically but never seems to work for me), etc.
My blog isn't the only source of this information on the web. It usually isn't the first source. It's rarely the best source (for a while, it was the best source for figuring out Walmart Verint security videos, but my solution is now outdated). But I do my best to put things together in a way that will be helpful to someone in the future who doesn't know what he's doing -- even and especially if that future ignoramus is me.
I treat it like a public notebook. When I find something interesting, I write a quick blog post. When I have to muddle through a technical issue that requires piecing together multiple other sources on the Internet, I write a blog post to summarize. I've written blog posts on getting Walmart security videos to play (Verint codec is a bitch), decoding Marine Corps brig phone call audio time stamps, setting up CAC readers and DoD Root Certificates on a Mac, actually moving Time Machine history to a new Mac (which should happen automatically but never seems to work for me), etc.
My blog isn't the only source of this information on the web. It usually isn't the first source. It's rarely the best source (for a while, it was the best source for figuring out Walmart Verint security videos, but my solution is now outdated). But I do my best to put things together in a way that will be helpful to someone in the future who doesn't know what he's doing -- even and especially if that future ignoramus is me.