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I was once looking for a solution to some technical problem, clicked on a promising web result, and found myself at my blog. I had posted a solution several years earlier but had forgotten about it.

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> I was once looking for a solution to some technical problem, clicked on a promising web result, and found myself at my blog. I had posted a solution several years earlier but had forgotten about it.

That is funny.

Once I recognized that I have been researching the same topics I have researched before, it motivated me to change my blog from a "Hack the Box" showcase blog, to adding my technical journal on topics that were hard to find online and sharing my experience with certifications.

I have been thinking of adding more personal entries, but I don't want to make the blog a social media.

Once I have a weird curl bug that the software was using and I went to GitHub to report the issue. Turn out I did report the issues 4 years ago and there is no one to look into this. For some reason the software was having curl errors due to Windows' version of curl. The only way I can fix this is to 'remove-item alias:curl" since the alias is set to Invoke-WebRequest in PowerShell when software want to use curl command. Yes there is curl.exe but the software didn't know that.

I've done this, too.

I've also run into comments I made on boards years, or even decades ago, and thought "there's a smart person," then realized I'd made the comment.

Hm. When I do that I tend to think 'look at this idiot'!

I occasionally (yesterday in fact) experience this on StackOverflow. I'll be looking for an answer and come across one of my own answers or comments that I have no recollection of writing.

It's always pleasant to say hello to yourself.

>"You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong." -Bill Gates

https://libquotes.com/bill-gates/quote/lbs9p7l

>"My favourite is when you're a solopreneur working in your own repos and still asking yourself "who wrote this shit?!" -rozenmd

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29874627

>"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. Code for readability." -John Woods

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c++/c/rYCO5yn4lXw/m/oI...

To summarize: Some day you might discover that you need to maintain your own code you wrote a long time ago, and you've turned into a violent psychopath who can remember your own address.

Circular reference? Joking aside, you write for yourself first when you write a blog. You learn better when writing about something and you see the gaps in your understanding when you try to explain something to others.

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