TLDR: This is #journal-brendon, just another blog. Subscribe if you want some behind-the-scenes info on the stuff I’ve worked on and am working on.
I haven’t been using X/Twitter, but I signed on today and saw my friend Justin (Veggies) had tweeted about the practice journal channels on Slack. The timing’s uncanny, because I had just started putting this blog together.
See: Link to tweet
#journal-brendon is a journal practice I started in ~2017 at work. I was in a small startup that had a culture of transparency. I wanted a Slack channel to drop my ramblings without spamming my colleagues.
I’m not all that structured when it comes to journaling. The pattern is about creating a space for others to chime in and react to my thoughts, software struggles, and successes. It’s a light and easy way to increase visibility of my work, without imposing on my peers.
With this space, I have a few aspirations that I hope to achieve. I’ll be writing articles to spread some of the knowledge I’ve accumulated and the opinions I’ve formed. I also want to share what I’m working on in the public space.