There’s a growing trend in dev writing that makes me feel like I accidentally opened Instagram. Blog posts full of personal preference, soft takes, and “this just clicks for me” vibes — but zero real value. I’m not here to hear about your emotional journey learning a language. I’m here to figure out how to actually build, fix, or survive something.
We’ve lost the core idea that programming is applied logic. It’s engineering. It’s structured chaos. You don’t debug production with feelings. You don’t scale infrastructure because it aligns with your “developer aesthetic.” If you write for other devs, your post should give someone tools, patterns, or hard-won knowledge — not vague declarations of tech love or hate.
Not everything needs to be a deep dive, but it should do something. Share a workaround. Explain a system. Show how you solved a problem the hard way. If all your post does is say “I prefer X over Y because it feels better,” cool — that’s a tweet, not an article.
So yeah. You can keep writing “Why I love Python” posts for karma and claps. Or you can write something that actually helps another dev not lose two hours of their life to some undocumented nightmare. Your call. Just don’t be surprised when nobody reads your blog after realizing it’s just Medium-flavored diary entries in camelCase.
Real devs don’t vibe.
We ship.
´´´#copypasta #bringbackdocs #notyourtechcrush´´´
