New experiment: Blog every Thursday

December 3, 2020 - 3 for 3!

Today marks my third consecutive week of Thursday blogging. I wrote about something that I've been thinking on for a while but couldn't figure out the right way to get it on paper.

This week's article is Testing the UI without UI Testing in Swift. I walk through three different approaches to using XCTest instead of reaching for UI Testing.

Good luck @joemasilotti. I have been blogging every Wednesday (so I can tell everyone to subscribe to think of it as Wednesday Wisdom ;-) ). Here is what helps me:

• have a scrap file with list of topics you could blog. Whenever an idea strikes note it down with as much input as you can have in that page - some quote, major points, inspired url etc. This happens as I listen to podcast, read an article, or a book etc
• have a system of note taking. I use obsidian app. You can use notion or any other tool too which fits your flow of day.
• in that note tool, store articles you like annotated with your insights, data etc. I also add #blogidea injected in many paras of the article so that I can search for blog ideas whenever I sit down to write
• I sit down mostly on Monday to write (I have daily themes. You can refer some bits here: https://jjude.com/now, though I have not written about it fully)
• When I sit down to write, I already have enough material to start. I try to fill the page with as much thought that flow in my mind at that time. I don't care about editing. Mantra here is: I can edit a bad page but not empty page.
• Then I start to edit with certain aspects in mind (who is the target audience, does it have enough CTAs throughout the article, does it reference other articles I have written etc).

If you do that often, it becomes a routine. By the way, my blog lives on https://jjude.com

Feel free to ask any questions.

Good thinking. Posting on the blog is also a great way to document your experience just like we do here at IH.