#tychoish

I have this bad habit of writing blog posts, on the weekend and then sitting on them for many days, and sometimes many weeks.

I just posted two things to my real blog:

do build systems need to be generic, and

build stages.

Which are about a work project (with implications for personal projects) that I've been thinking about a lot recently.

The tumblr has been a great inspiration to work on blogging more recently. I still have the feeling that blogging isn't exactly something that I want to spend a lot of time working on: I don't need to prove to myself that I'm a writer and if I need more practice writing something it's not under-substantiated short-form polemics.

At the same time, as I discussed in A Day in the Life, it's true that I don't get to do a lot of sustained writing on a day to day basis. It's nice to be able to collect thoughts having an easy way to start the momentum of doing work is great. Even if blogging isn't the end goal, blogging is sometimes a great tool to jump start the writing engine. As it were. Two things I've noticed:

I'm still not particularly good at splitting blogging focus between the "short" and "medium" forms. I like the whole tumblr thing, but there's not much that distinguishes tychoish.com from m.tycho.co. Sigh.

I'm also aware that the experience of writing professionally for 4 years (and counting) has made me a much better writer. My sentences are a little longer than they ought to be. My unassisted spelling isn't great (but it's a lot better than it used to be.)

So the plan from here: write more often and don't sit on tychoish.com posts for the hell of it!