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My other wonder was how long it took to go from "i've got this camera" to "i've written this software". I imagine it's on the order of weeks.

Which means you could probably do a daily journalling exercise. What you tried, what worked etc.

It's interesting to wonder about, but i imagine the dead ends, looking up docs, writing debugging tools is too boring to put in a blog



Oh for sure, it would have to be heavily edited from that complete set of notes. Although, even if my blog is so boring that I'm the only reader, I'd still be happy to have written it as that writing process will massively increase my chance of remembering what I learned.


Yeah, and the only way to get better at writing stuff up, is to write stuff up.




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