the blog is a different kind of project than the zines, I write about a lot of stuff that I don't really feel confident with -- for example I don't feel very confident using Rust or nix or iptables or mutexes but I wrote a few posts about things I picked up
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@b0rk This leads to a possible overlap between you only wanting to write from your confidence and you learning in public on Mastodon: write a zone as you become confident, letting us here help increase your confidence in a new subject.
(Related: I think many more people could benefit from a future Postgres zine as are benefitting from the current git zine.)
@paulehoffman haha the whole point of this thread was to explain why that's not possible but I guess it didn't work, maybe I'll try again another time.
I definitely do that kind of things with my blog posts all the time -- I've been writing blog posts about why I'm confused about nix and slowly learning along the way from the responses, but that process often takes many years so it just doesn't make sense to commit to publishing a zine in that context
