Tackling a long overdue task

Given that AI agents and GitHub Copilot is an integral part of my work day nowadays, I decided to tackle a massive task I neclected for too long. AI should now help me with it: writing entirely new and better documentation for GoBlog.

I think a big reason for people looking at GoBlog, but even when interested, not using it, is because the documentation is so bad. Almost nothing is documented; the README is just a link to the docs page, and the blog is out-of-date. Every time someone is contacting me about GoBlog, it’s because they have questions a good documentation should be able to answer.

Writing documentation is a tedious task, something I always prioritized below implementing new features and ideas. Nothing is wrong with that approach, as it’s a hobby project after all, but it destroys the potential of GoBlog as a simple blogging platform everyone can put on a server and start blogging with it. And it also prevents people from actually contributing to the project.

Due to some changes at work, I only do paid work for 36 hours per week for now, so I have 4 hours left to work on my own projects, improve them, and maybe learn new things and tools along the way. ☺️ Next to improving GoBlog’s documentation, I will also use it to get more familiar with Angular and Spring Boot.

This post should act like some public commitment to hold me accountable for. 😅