[kryptiskt]

The Old New Thing is very much engineering. Any contemporary engineers who don't think they have anything to learn from the experience of the past as recounted in the blog are doomed to repeat the same missteps.

And much as one would hope that Raymond Chen's blogging is holding up any important Microsoft initiatives, I very much doubt that it's much of a distraction for a megacorporation.

[WorldMaker]

Also, you should be able to still search for Raymond Chen's blog process posts, but part of why he has nearly a blog post every work day for quite so many years is that he built up a huge queue, adds to the queue only during relatively free time, and has automated the posting of that queue. It's also seems to relate to why so many are multi-part deep dives. (This post also ends with a tease for the next post.) It was often probably only one root investigative journey related to a Windows support question investigation or user story writeup or documentation was needed to be written or some other TIL rabbit hole was found, but breaking it into multiple parts keeps each part easy to read individually and also keeps the queue full for weeks where things are much busier.

[asdefghyk]

RE "....Any contemporary engineers who don't think they have anything to learn from the experience of the past....." 100% correct