Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. I’m a developer. I’m good at writing and debugging code. But writing articles isn't my thing—even on my native language, not say already on English (despite the language itself isn't the main issue here). I used to post technical posts on LinkedIn. Not in the style of
The Old New Thing, but just about things that were somewhat interesting and not widely known. The posts weren't high-quality, but they did earn me over 2,300 followers there. However, a year ago, LinkedIn deleted my account. So, all of that is gone forever (I didn't back it up anywhere else, and I don't have a personal website). That means my claim about the LinkedIn posts can't be verified anymore. I’ve written a few article-like pieces on my GitHub—for example,
https://github.com/rbmm/tbal (or
https://github.com/rbmm/StateMachineState). They were nothing special—not top-tier quality. A few years ago, I collaborated with someone, and we wrote some articles together for his site (I provided the technical info, and he did the writing):
https://dennisbabkin.com/blog/author/?a=rbmm (We haven't worked together for several years now). To me, it’s nothing remarkable. In any case, my main "creative output" was on LinkedIn. It never even crossed my mind that the platform could delete everything. When your account gets flagged as "restricted," it doesn't just switch to read-only mode where you lose access; it means a total wipe—everything gets deleted: all public posts, all conversations (including the ones with other people). For instance, I wrote about my framework for writing shellcode in C++ simply and efficiently using native code—okay, I think it’s the best implementation of its kind available publicly. I used to write about various other utilities and research projects of mine, amusing PoCs, and little-known techniques. At least there’s still Stack Overflow with its objective reputation (rating) system—though, in reality, it doesn't bring me anything, and the topic I primarily answered questions on (WinAPI) is pretty much dead these days. That leaves GitHub (obviously, I don't make all my projects public) and the occasional YouTube video.
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