Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging

In software development, we collect anti-patterns to recognize common traits that lead to poor outcomes in our software. I thought it would be helpful to do the same for software blogging, so I’ve catalogued the most frequent mistakes I see from beginner bloggers. The meandering intro Preamble still counts as meandering “The reader knows everything I know except this one thing” Overreliance on links The sequel injection bug Excessive formality Fumbling on the basics of rendering HTML Page overflow on mobile Unreadable font Summary The meandering intro The most common mistake in software blogging, by far, is meandering. I constantly find myself several paragraphs into a post with no idea what the author is trying to tell me.