Title: This isn't worth a post
Slug: this-isnt-worth-a-post
Date: 2021-09-12 10:45:00
Author: Kartones
Lang: en
Tags: Offtopic, Kartones.Net
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Description: A small struggle about deciding what is worth posting online, balancing between sharing useful information and not wanting to add to the noise.


"*This isn't worth a post*" is lately a common answer I give to myself when thinking about writing or not. 

To me, it's becoming harder and harder to strike a balance between posting at least minimally interesting stuff and not keeping to myself tiny bits that might be of use to others. 

The best example is a recent scenario: My Linux laptop and the current house's internet router don't get along 100%, after some inactivity the wi-fi connection would go down and take a while to reconnect. Some network troubleshooting later, [disabling wi-fi power saving](https://askubuntu.com/a/1325437/525247) seems to have solved the problem. 

Should I have posted about it to help others? Searching at DuckDuckGo at least, you need to either include `iwconfig` in the search terms, or dig in the first page of results and read them to find a clear & concise & up to date answer. But on the other hand [askubuntu.com](https://askubuntu.com/) has 99% of answers to any issues I've ever had, and I think it is good to learn about finding things around the net and finding decent sources of information, even if it takes a few attempts. You will learn how to use the site and be a little less dependant on search engine ranking algorithms.

At least in some cases it's quite clear: My reviews, my experiments, my pet projects and the like are a clear "yes"; I'm learning some modern Javascript, NodeJS and related topics, but as there are so many good tutorials, courses and articles out there I won't post anything general related with the language as it is hard to add any value.

But often, I feel the contents won't add enough substance, so I discard them. Anyway, the "genuine" posts will still be written so I guess this is more of a rant than a real problem to solve 😃.