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For me blogs are/were the best part of the internet. Unfortunately good content is so hard to find nowadays purely because of the insane amount of marketing/ad fueled blog spam that poisons every search result page.

Not a fan of opinion pieces and silver-bullet type posts, but I'm always down for a technical deep dive, a postmortem, an experimental programming paradigm idea, or just plain-old hacking fun.

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My friends called this disease tutorialitis. It's when people explain "for loops" and hope to sell some adds or course on something that is virtually free nowadays. The influencer culture leaks into our programming world.

Funny but unfortunately true. The big market for bloggers will rarely be professionals delving into advanced topics (that's what research papers and conference talks are for), it's for the fledgling who is kinda interested and will dabble for a few weeks before inevitably quitting for some other venture.

That's pretty much why many specialized parts of tech have this massive dirth of intermediate content out there that bridges the gap between "how to color a button" and "2D Shape Rendering by Distance Fields".

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