How this blog was born

This blog began with an idea to be a journal, but not a personal journal, a public journal, where I will post everything I'm doing, superficially.

I have a big difficulty speaking a lot of words in a text, but c’mon, you can give me a try that I can do it. I should be careful to write something that makes sense to the others, because of that I keep my texts simple.

Intention of this blog is to work as my journal, but also training me to write more and better. My thesis on university was a lot of difficulty for me to write the pages (with LaTex). Also I want to do a master degree in Applied Computing because of some friends and colleges that have done. For that reason I must write very well.

But let me talk about some inspirations.

Lucas Costa - lucascosta.com

I know Lucas Costa from my first TDC on Florianópolis, he probably doesn't know me. I tried to keep this blog stupid simple, for maintenance and for reading, like he did.

My blog got a lot of inspiration from his blog. I have a very similar header, footer, about-me and message above my name, on the title of my blog.

I hope that I have awesome content like that he has, on my blog. He is also one of my inspirations, because of his blog and his open-source contributions.

Kent C. Dodds - kentcdodds.com

I was trying to find the best color for my blog, something different. Then I found his blog’s color, it was the best, so I tried the same hex color of the blue color of Brazilian flag. But after a talk with my girlfriend, she convinced me to replace blue with white, to a dark with dim theme as default.

Something very similar is the blog list, very simple and clear.

I love his content about tests, he did the unit test, it is something very simple and useful. It was focus on the final result, instead of taking multiple hours to test each corner of the implementation code (like state on React).

William Justen - willianjusten.com.br

This case is not the blog visual, but his course on Udemy. It helps me to understand better how to work with Gatsby to have a simple blog implementation.

My first try was creating a blog with a lot of features, like he did. But after work for hours, the blog looked ugly and the code was a nightmare. But with the beta blog, I learned how to not code to Gatsby, and then I delivered something simple (this blog). Now I have a simple blog, but a blog that works.

What to expect?

I already have a roadmap of content to study and write in my journal, it probably will be here some day. And I already have some content to post, but I should clean it for the public, because it is just private notes.

Why in english?

Because I want to reach people outside of Brazil, and to me, it’s to train my english. Because of that, it don't make sense to me to have the blog in portuguese or with internationalization to portuguese and english .