Jeff GeerlingI've reached the point in my writing career when I find an old blog post on some deep technical topic, and have absolutely zero recollection of writing it lol
chair@geerlingguy I look back on my older writing and go "oh wow I wrote this? I used to be terrible"
Rick@geerlingguy I do that with Stack Overflow posts. As in, I have some technical coding issue, google how to solve it, see that I asked the question on some online forum, and it was answered.
Scott@JetForMe @geerlingguy I had the opposite recently! Trying to do something pretty esoteric in SQL, and found a Stack Overflow question that was for the same thing. The accepted answer was exactly what I wanted, was well-written and explained the whole thing clearly. I went to see who wrote the answer, and it was me, seven years before. I had no recollection whatsoever.
Daniel@scottearle @geerlingguy I have also had that experience.
@geerlingguy i had that often at work. Past Daniel was very helpful today when I realized the work was already done. So joyful.
David@geerlingguy yep. This is the way.
@geerlingguy my favorite thing is to Google search on a specific topic I need to figure out how to do something, and the answer is all there on a post *I WROTE* in some seemingly former life. Haha.
Keiko@geerlingguy I have a similar experience when googling or searching on reddit for some problem - I find a result, read the problem description, find it describes __exactly__ the thing I'm trying to solve, and see there's no answers. Then check who posted the question, and it's me from like 3 years ago.
@geerlingguy Is that worse than searching for a solution and finding that you (I) searched for the same thing about 10 years earlier?
Jens Christian Skov@geerlingguy Still recall how happy I was when I found someone suffering the exact same issue with SQL Server that I was struggling with, and happily reading along in the thread on the M$ support site, only to find out it was me who had asked that same question 4 years prior🫣
Shawn K. O'Shea@geerlingguy I think you’ll have reached peak when you Google how to do something and get your own blog (that you forgot you wrote) as a top result.
Drikanis@b00ga @geerlingguy I've literally had this happen to me, not because I'm a prolific blogger but because I always end up hitting the weird problems nobody has written about.