Sometimes I write blog posts here and for other blogs, like this one:

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/03/14/how-use-java-container-awareness-openshift-4

People will use that as reference and that’s great. You can even write your own blog post about it.

But better cite it because worse than copying someone’s work is to copy it wrongly.

Or the worst scenario: contrive (as make an unsubstantiated claim) just because of a misunderstanding of the concept, which you are probably not used to anyway.

Surfing online on the topic I can see some claims that are basically unsubstantiated and that’s just not how it works – sometimes AT ALL. The wording matters, some concepts are not interchangable and abstractions can do more harm than good.

So you are better citing the sources nonetheless. You may be reading something wrong yourself.

“Knowing enough about a subject to think you’re right. But not enough about the subject to know you’re wrong” — By Neil deGrasse Tyson.