kovalevski.net
Blog about programming, software development, and life
I've had the idea of my own blog for a long time. I wanted to share my notes, ideas, thoughts, and my experience in software development. I write notes (in a private local folder) almost every day. Let's make them public
I finally published my first post. The post is “First steps in Unit testing”. It’s an article about terms and definitions in Unit testing, differences between types of tests, and why you as a developer should prefer unit tests. The post is available here - https://kovalevski.net/first-steps-in-unit-testing
I couldn't get the blog idea out of my head because I have so much to share and I love to teach people. I used Twitter to share my content for a while but then I decided to make my own platform.
After digging dive into one technology, I finally make my website where I wanted to write articles and notes.
Someday I was doing a live-coding stream on Twitch where I was coding some project and also taking notes by using markdown files and Vim as an editor. One of the few viewers chat me in Discord with the question "Do you take notes by Zettelkasten method?". As I mentioned, I didn't know about this method and related terms. And after this random message, I just googled the Zettelkasten method and I realized that this is that I tried to do it intuitively, subconsciously! I deep dive into the world of the Zettelkasten method, bidirectional links, services, and apps like Obsidian, Roam Research, etc.
The date is random. Actually, I don't remember when I started to write my own notes. It didn't have any system. Almost 90% of my notes were lost after another re-installation of OS. My first step to the current note-taking system is creating a Git repo for saving notes and not losing them again.