Blogger beware: You can be a victim of your own success if you're not careful.
Every time I follow this sort of advice, whatever I write inevitably becomes immensely popular and I end up hearing from a lot of people that whine loudly about my furry blog having furry art on it.
It's exhausting and if you don't reply on news sites, they'll send you social media messages and emails too.
And if you'd like a poignant example of a time I followed this sort of advice, I wrote this one after I failed to understand why some applications were using HKDF different than I intuited it was meant to be used, and a formal methods guy had to explain it to me because I was asking very loudly. It has since been cited by the Python cryptography library docs: https://soatok.blog/2021/11/17/understanding-hkdf/
You're not wrong, but I felt these words of caution are something anyone should be aware of should they pursue TFA's advice.
If you're doing it for intrinsically valuable reasons (i.e., for yourself), wonderful!
But if you're doing it to try to overcome writer's block or establish themselves as a recognized name in a community, there are downsides that people don't tend to talk about much because they might sound ungrateful (especially if they financially benefit from their popularity). I, individually, have no such monetization incentives at play.
Every time I follow this sort of advice, whatever I write inevitably becomes immensely popular and I end up hearing from a lot of people that whine loudly about my furry blog having furry art on it.
(Most recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105421)
It's exhausting and if you don't reply on news sites, they'll send you social media messages and emails too.
And if you'd like a poignant example of a time I followed this sort of advice, I wrote this one after I failed to understand why some applications were using HKDF different than I intuited it was meant to be used, and a formal methods guy had to explain it to me because I was asking very loudly. It has since been cited by the Python cryptography library docs: https://soatok.blog/2021/11/17/understanding-hkdf/