Why I should blog
I finally decided to start a blog. Maybe the reason is this blog post. I am a big fan of Steve Yegge (his more recent blog). He is quite famous with his really long blog posts.
The main reason behind me starting this is, I consider myself one of the programmers who know how online communities and social networks work. But I realized I am a lurker. I lurk in mailing lists, I lurk in online forums. I lurk in open-source project wikis. I rarely contribute code and I never talk. So I decided to make my own contribution on this blog and my website naysaying.com. I chose this domain because I am a naysayer. That is it. I always comment about the things that, I think, are wrong and I rarely speak when I like something. I almost never find myself criticizing something when I really like it.
In this blog I am planning to talk about things that I don't like about software, web development, gadgets, video games, books and other things I am interested in. And I will also try to talk about things that I like and go into detail about them.
After reading a lot of blogs and articles I finally accept the fact that the things we consider obvious may not be so obvious at all. So, in that context, I will be talking about "obvious stuff". It may be boring for some of the readers and useful for others. I am not here to make everyone happy. If one thinks that this blog is boring, then one can read another blog that suits her. Internet is an ocean of blogs just as it's a series of tubes. I am also planning naysaying.com to be a site for my portfolio, projects and a place for me to exist online.
I am a Turkish web developer and Turkish is my mother tongue. If you wonder why I want to blog in English, that is because I am a Computer Science student. Most of the people I want to work with and the online communities I am interested in, are not consisting of Turkish speakers. The papers I will be releasing and all my work will be in English because, currently, it is the default language for science (which means I also have to improve my English writing skills.).
I have been avoiding this for years. I didn't want to join the horde for some reason, but I finally accept that one should have an online presence (Facebook is not enough, belive me.).
And... Well... Here I am.
The main reason behind me starting this is, I consider myself one of the programmers who know how online communities and social networks work. But I realized I am a lurker. I lurk in mailing lists, I lurk in online forums. I lurk in open-source project wikis. I rarely contribute code and I never talk. So I decided to make my own contribution on this blog and my website naysaying.com. I chose this domain because I am a naysayer. That is it. I always comment about the things that, I think, are wrong and I rarely speak when I like something. I almost never find myself criticizing something when I really like it.
In this blog I am planning to talk about things that I don't like about software, web development, gadgets, video games, books and other things I am interested in. And I will also try to talk about things that I like and go into detail about them.
After reading a lot of blogs and articles I finally accept the fact that the things we consider obvious may not be so obvious at all. So, in that context, I will be talking about "obvious stuff". It may be boring for some of the readers and useful for others. I am not here to make everyone happy. If one thinks that this blog is boring, then one can read another blog that suits her. Internet is an ocean of blogs just as it's a series of tubes. I am also planning naysaying.com to be a site for my portfolio, projects and a place for me to exist online.
I am a Turkish web developer and Turkish is my mother tongue. If you wonder why I want to blog in English, that is because I am a Computer Science student. Most of the people I want to work with and the online communities I am interested in, are not consisting of Turkish speakers. The papers I will be releasing and all my work will be in English because, currently, it is the default language for science (which means I also have to improve my English writing skills.).
I have been avoiding this for years. I didn't want to join the horde for some reason, but I finally accept that one should have an online presence (Facebook is not enough, belive me.).
And... Well... Here I am.
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