If you blog, do you go back and look at old pieces?

I do that occasionally, mostly to reshare on social media or here. Gotta chase those karma points.

But sometimes someone will ask a question in slack or via email that reminds me "I wrote something about that once!" and I'll dig up a piece to share.

As a gift for a family member who had a non-technical blog, I once gathered posts together, edited them, and turned them into a book. That was a ton of fun.

I'm doing that a lot at work actually because I have blogged extensively about Bazel before (and other related build topics) and many of those posts are coming handy to answer questions that people have at this "new" place. It has kinda become a meme. "Ah yeah, there is a post for that!"

Yes. I also have a "random blog post" button which I like to hit from time to time. It's nice to see where I was years ago and what was going on in my life back then. (my blog spans more than 20 years by now)

I mostly do that when I am taking about something Il that I wrote about and want to share it.