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+title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - The... Book?"
+date = 2019-06-14
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+tags = ["en-au", "programming", "work"]
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+Random thought about the previous post about "Things I Learnt The Hard Way".
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+When I wrote the post about "Things I Learnt The Hard Way", I never thought it
+would gather the traction it did.
+
+It was posted [on Reddit](https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bzipb5/things_i_learnt_the_hard_way_in_30_years_of/),
+[on Lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs/s/hf0bkk/things_i_learnt_hard_way_30_years_software),
+and it is being discussed on Twitter.
+
+None of those was posted by me (except a single tweet, which didn't gather
+that much attention).
+
+Since then, I've added a bunch of new points -- as life goes on, I remember
+another thing that I forgot to mention in the first time -- and when I write
+this new post, the original now captures 83 (!!!) points.
+
+But while the short format gives a quick idea of what I meant, it doesn't
+properly explain the points -- and a lot of people are (correctly) raising
+those in the discussion boards. So I feel I should really expand those.
+
+And, at the same time, I have created a few macros for
+[Zola](http://getzola.org/) (the blogging engine I'm using) to "publish" some
+books (if you allow me to be really loose with the meaning of "publishing").
+
+That's why I'm currently considering expanding the points in a digital book
+format, also here in this blog, using each point as a chapter.
+
+I'll still update the original post, but expanding the points into chapters
+will give me more room to put my thoughts on each of them, and I can link each
+point to the longer explanation.
+
+Sounds like a plan, doesn't it?