The benefits of learning in public

On the benefits of learning in public While laid up with a minor but annoying medical issue over the last week, I've blogged more than usual. I've also spent some time reading through the archives here, and come to the conclusion that the best posts I've made -- at least from my perspective -- follow a similar pattern. They're posts where I've been learning how to do something, or how something worked, and presented what I've found as a summary, often as a tutorial. I think of these as writing the post that I wished I'd found when I started learning whatever it was. I think these posts serve two purposes. Firstly, for me, they're an excellent way to codify and solidify the knowledge. Finding out how to do something new, and ideally doing it, is important to grow as an engineer, but writing down what you learned makes it sink into your mind at a gut level. I'm a big believer that you don't really understand something properly if you can't explain it to an intelligent and interested ... Read full article.