[hombre_fatal]

It's a fun project to try out new tech, but you have to acknowledge that you're doing it for fun rather than any sort of necessary reason. It's like when you build a game engine and never get around to doing the hard part: building the game.

It's a procrastination time hole that mostly just distracts us from the harder, less concrete, less fun thing we supposedly set out to do in the first place. It keeps us from shipping real shit.

e.g. Quit dicking around with your SSG and write the damn blog post already. The hard part of writing something worth reading is not your tech stack.

[swatcoder]

> e.g. Quit dicking around with your SSG and write the damn blog post already. The hard part of writing something worth reading is not your tech stack.

Alternately, for many, there's more value to themself and everyone else if they grind on those technical skills rather than distract themselves with a hobby they seem inclined to put off.

If you really want to write, you'll write. If you really want to hack, you'll hack.

A lot of people think they should write, but actually just want to hack. And that's not a problem! The image of writing provides some orientation to the hacking, but it's the hacking itself that can be most fun and enriching for them.

Do the hacking, and if you never get around to the writing, don't sweat it. If you're honest with yourself: it was never really about that, was it?

[_xivi]

> The hard part of writing something worth reading is not your tech stack.

This project isn't about blogging, you need to look at it from a side project pov.

I think this is a common misconception, that these people want to write a blog post but are failing or procrastinating when they don't have to. When in reality, these people are developers and makers who look at their personal website from tech community's "little corner on the internet" pov.

They feel frustrated with the solution and feel they can develop better-tailored one for themselves. Putting out blog posts isn't a priority or a concern for most of these developers. They're passionate about their tools. They make tons of side projects. They're not wasting time. They don't necessarily have a more important post to write about.

If you're looking at it from a blogger/writer's perspective, sure that's wasteful, but, again, that's not what this is about.

[SoftTalker]

> It's a procrastination time hole

Yep. You also see this often in small companies/statups that would write their own ticket systems and internal administrative intranets before they even had a product.

[ttymck]

Fun, learning something new, unlocking additional productivity in authoring posts from a customizable templating engine... I can easily convince myself of necessary reasons ;D

[nextlevelwizard]

As long as you use a static site generator instead some bloated blogging platform with tons of scripts and a database.

If you write about tech and your site doesn’t load instantly why should anyone read your words since you obviously don’t care

[matheusmoreira]

Thanks. As someone who's prone to getting hopelessly sidetracked in projects, I needed to read this. I ended up forking and customizing pug into my own templating language!

[Tao3300]

My grandfather used to talk about most hobbies this way, until he got a little older and mellower in his later years.