I've blogged as a form of a research journal and it forces me to finish projects or at least document a great excuse for stopping, and it forces me to understand what I'm learning well enough to write a blog post where I won't get laughed at too much by non-noobs in the field.
My interests are esoteric. I blogged up my process of learning a semi famous microcontroller RTOS, a FOSS virtualization infrastructure that peaked in the 10s that seems to be in the process of becoming rapidly forgotten, and a complete K8S / virtualization / HCI infrastructure system of many parts from a euro-ish company that seems mostly ignored in the USA (weird to me, its pretty awesome and the docs are all English!)
I've also used blogs to write book reviews along the idea that I "will" finish the book and read the entire thing and learn it fully if I'm blogging up a detailed review of every chapter.
My interests are esoteric. I blogged up my process of learning a semi famous microcontroller RTOS, a FOSS virtualization infrastructure that peaked in the 10s that seems to be in the process of becoming rapidly forgotten, and a complete K8S / virtualization / HCI infrastructure system of many parts from a euro-ish company that seems mostly ignored in the USA (weird to me, its pretty awesome and the docs are all English!)
I've also used blogs to write book reviews along the idea that I "will" finish the book and read the entire thing and learn it fully if I'm blogging up a detailed review of every chapter.