Nothing to Write? Oh, and neomutt.

So my last post was about how I might start writing more frequently for this site. That was only 4 months ago….

I promised to write a post about neomutt if I got it working. It turns out it was extremely easy to install and configure, and I did not feel as though there was anything interesting to contribute. Well anyway, I recommend it for people who want an old-fashioned email client with modern features.

I have thought a bit about why I can’t seem to generate any content here. When I was in college I thought I would be brimming with ideas about what to write about. At the time I was too busy. Now I have the time, but the ideas are harder to come by.

I encounter plenty of interesting engineering challenges in my job, but I haven’t felt that it was okay to write about them on a public forum. And most of what I work on is very collaborative, so I feel a little uncomfortable writing about the solutions when it was the work of my colleagues that facilitated them. A lot of engineering blogs I read appear to get around these problems by constructing an example just for the post. They do a great job at this, but I worry that if I were to try that, the result would be overly terse or contrived.

What I know I could do, would be to write technological rants. But that wouldn’t be what I started this website for, and wouldn’t be very valuable either. So I will wait for inspiration to write something useful and interesting about my areas of expertise.