🔄 Adjusting Blog Content Direction
I haven't updated my blog much in the past two years. Looking back since 2022, I've only published 5 posts (though that wasn't many before either), which is far below my own expectations. Actually, I've written some technical documents and articles internally at my company, but due to length limitations and sensitivity concerns, none of them were made public, which is quite a pity.
I used to easily get stuck in internal friction when writing articles - always wanting to create systematic content. When organizing my thoughts and writing with this goal in mind, the process would drag on for a very long time, eventually extinguishing the initial spark of inspiration. Often, articles would end up being abandoned halfway through. However, several recent events have made me reconsider my original approach.
First, I noticed some bloggers I follow, although their posts are relatively short, the content is concise and powerful, focusing on small technical points while digging deep into interesting aspects. I think I can learn from this approach to writing, which would reduce mental pressure and increase the frequency of blog updates.
Second, I've basically stopped reading domestic technical articles in the past two years, spending most of my time reading blog posts from foreign technical teams and independent blogs (reasons shown in the image below). During this reading process, I discovered that the quality of content from many international authors is very high, far exceeding the average level of domestic aggregation websites. As my knowledge base has grown, I've started wondering if I could also write similar content, so I've decided to give it a try and just start writing.
Third, with the explosion of AIGC this year, much blog content is actually not as well-written as what ChatGPT can produce. I've seen complete programming beginners use GPT to learn and modify Python scripts for office efficiency. I never expected that the interactive tutorials I advocated for in college would eventually be fulfilled by general-purpose AI like ChatGPT. While GPT still has significant accuracy issues with complex problems, it's basically sufficient for introductory learning.
Therefore, in the current trend, I think it's unnecessary to compete with AI for basic tutorials, which also echoes my first point: there's no need to consider too many basic issues when writing articles. Just focus on solving the most critical problems, and leave the basic knowledge to ChatGPT.
Therefore, I'll be making the following adjustments to my blog updates going forward:
- No focus on basic tutorials: ChatGPT can handle these, and systematic tutorial resources are already abundant abroad. With tools like "Immersive Translate" and other plugins, it's very convenient to learn relevant knowledge, and I can avoid getting stuck in internal friction that leads to abandoned tutorials (like my "Write a Software Renderer from Scratch" project that was abandoned)
- Focus on experience and insights: I'll provide links to basic tutorials at the beginning of articles, but focus more on problems encountered and solutions found in specific practices. This type of content is more like experience sharing, better suited for people with relevant practical experience
- Share source code analysis of useful libraries: There's a bad trend domestically where everyone jumps into React/Vue source code analysis - it's all meaningless internal competition. Some say this is like "building rockets for interviews," but most interviewers are just putting on a show, pretending to ask important details when it's essentially just brain teasers. I really dislike this trend, so the source code analysis I'll share will focus more on content I'm actually interested in and use
- Share learning and reading experiences of courses/books: This content will be more like book reviews, usually publishing multiple books together, and synchronously updating on platforms like Douban
These are the adjustments I'll be making to my blog content going forward. If time permits, I should start releasing some articles next week (hope I can stick with it longer this time).