The answer is simple.. lots and lots of laziness and oversight.
I remember the begining of the year like yesterday. Well wasn’t it yesterday. I made severall promises. To myself, to people around me. One of them being I would write more blog posts. I didn’t keep that promise. (note the choice of words not ‘couldn’t but didn’t‘).
Writing, for me isn’t my favourite thing to do. I love coding, I love playing games, I spend 30% of my time scrolling mindlessly on X (not that I love that though). But,, I also love looking back. I’m still young and growing and I love making memories, and looking back at them in any form. Weather its taking pctures and videos, or making random ass posts on X to pen (we don’t actually use pens on twitter) down what I’m currently thinking. So I have to do something i don’t love (Writing long ass blogs) to get what i want (documentation in the future).
I didn’t write this year cause I procrastinated a lot. Oh… let me be done with my website I’ll build a dedicated blog section on it and start writing there. Oh.. this portfolio I built is trash let me redesign it and build a blog on that redesign and start writing there. Oh I won’t like writing blogs in code let me build a blog application where I can write my blogs and dynamically render it on my website and other blog platforms cause I wasn’t sure of what to stick with. (Substack, Medium, Hashnode, Dev.to). Eventually I found out the reson i settled with hashnode in the first place. It has excellent developer support. I can write on Hashnode and use the content anywhere using it as a Content Managment System and just fetch and render on my website. I can set up RSS feeds and also work with emails and newsletters in a developer friendly way. It had everything i wanted to custom build. I was just being lazy and distracted.
console.log("I can even write code blocks lmao");
But not anymore. I’d write more going forward. Thanks to my inner conviction of making memories and people like DHH and Theprimeagen (not elaborating further).
Thanks for reading and see you some other time.