>Whatever your thing is, make the thing you wish you had found when you were learning. Don’t judge your results by “claps” or retweets or stars or upvotes - just talk to yourself from 3 months ago. I keep an almost-daily dev blog written for no one else but me.

>Guess what? It’s not about reaching as many people as possible with your content. If you can do that, great, remember me when you’re famous. But chances are that by far the biggest beneficiary of you trying to help past you is future you. If others benefit, that’s icing.

I feel like this is sorta counter to the "peacockers who write posts about mundane things", because it's very explicitly "these are my notes for me".

You might say "why in public, then?", and I think the value _does_ get to "if someone else benefits" -- but admittedly, that requires some straining out the obvious materials (but really, are you that likely to keep around a blog post about "today I learned what public static void main(String[] args) means" for your own reference later?)