Why I Finally Started Writing Online
Crafting my thoughts into words ✍️The Notebooks
I have been keeping physical notebooks since 2018. Small pocket-sized ones that I carry everywhere. When I run into a tricky bug, I sketch it out on paper. When I learn something new — a pattern, a concept, a gotcha — I write it down by hand.
I also have written digital notes on my computer note app, Notion and Google Keep but there is something about the act of writing by hand that forces you to slow down and actually understand what you are putting on the page. You cannot paste a Stack Overflow answer into a notebook. You have to distil it into your own words.
Over the years I have filled more notebooks than I can count. Ideas for projects, architecture diagrams, notes from conference talks, half-finished essays about things I was thinking about.
I have always wanted to write a physical note because that would be a single piece of reference of what i write and i felt it very important becasue i believed that if i had notes on digital form then it would not probably mine because i could have pasted some texts from internet or generate by AI.
The Moment I Changed My Mind
I was working on the Boneappetitedk project, trying to figure out why PrimeVue's design tokens were not being applied in the right order during SSR hydration. I spent the better part of a day on it, eventually solved it, and wrote three pages of notes about what I found.
Six months later a friend asked me about a similar issue with a different UI library. I remembered solving something like it. I dug out the notebook, found the entry, and read it back to him over a voice call — squinting at my own handwriting.
That was the moment I thought: this should be online.
Not because the internet needed another developer blog. But because future-me and the people I work with would benefit from it.
How I Plan to Write Here
Short. Honest. Close to the original notebook entry in spirit.
I am not trying to build an audience or a brand. I am trying to create a searchable, shareable version of the notebooks I have already been keeping.
Posts will mostly be:
- Things I learned while building something
- Opinions I formed over time that I want to articulate properly
- Notes on tools, patterns, or decisions I keep revisiting
I will not be posting on a schedule. I will post when something is worth writing down.
If something I write here saves you an afternoon of debugging, or makes you think about a problem differently then that is more than enough reason for it to exist.