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5 things I learned from writing 500 tech articles

Chris Bongers on August 09, 2021

Wow, this is article 500!! 🎉 I wish I could say I did an article a day, like Seth Godin or Flavio Copes. However, I did miss writing on my wedding...

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Bala Priya C • Aug 16 '21 • Edited

Hello Chris,

Don't be afraid that you have to be perfect, nobody is!
Write for your best readers, which are people like-minded often. 
That said, it comes down to writing content you would read yourself.
And lastly, enjoy the process!

These are words of gold! I really admire your consistency and your unbelievably fantastic streak makes me want to strive for consistency.
Thanks again for writing this.

Chris Bongers • Aug 17 '21

Thanks Bala!

Appreciate you taking the time to comment this, and glad it inspires you

maxmarrie • Jan 24 '22 • Edited

Thanks a lot for these key points. Right now, I am not doing any type of content writing and essay writing. College-paper.org reviews is a company that is handling my all projects that are related to essay writing and content writing.

Hasaan Maqsood • Aug 10 '21

Hello, chris

I am Hasaankhattak from Pakistan and open dev app and on the front of 2nd article is your the one I am really on.

I love reading tech articles and I am computer science student. I read you article such amazing this js the first article which I like too much it's make me to response you.

Have a Good day. Always be happy sir
Thankyou

Chris Bongers • Aug 11 '21

Hi Hasaan! thank you for reading my articles with such joy.
Appreciate you!

Keep up the learning and let me hear from you again 👋

GrahamTheDev • Aug 9 '21 • Edited

Well, massive respect for this, 500 posts is an epic milestone.

Earned a very rare follow from me just for that, I am now off to explore some of your stuff!

Is the plan to continue or are you considering backing the pace off a bit as the world ramps back up to normal?

❤🦄 - amazing!

Chris Bongers • Aug 10 '21

Wow thanks for the follow! That's amazing ❤️

The plan is to continue actually, I have some plans to turn my day job back a couple hours (4-8) so I get some more time to refactor some older blogs.

Since I struggle to maintain 500 (growing) blogs with new links/content/refactors.

Waylon Walker • Aug 10 '21

Congrats on your 500 milestone! I really like your short and focused writing style, this works well for me as well. I like to digest a lot of content in short periods. My brain starts to wander quickly. I am about a month in on my latest stint of daily posting. It comes and goes for me based on family, work, and motivation. This time around, I have done a better job at pplanning ahead, and it is working better.

Curious, how many finished posts ahead do you get?

Chris Bongers • Aug 11 '21

Yeah seeing a lot of your tmux articles coming well done Waylon!

As for how far I go: 7 days at the moment, planning ahead for my travel back, where i'll miss 2 days (unless I write in the plane, which I generally don't do).

Your comment sparks my point about writing for your readers, as I read in the same fashion.
I can't digest large lump sum stories very well, so I also only read super short articles most of the time.

Waqar Ahmed • Aug 9 '21

I like your point about getting motivated. Writing 500 articles is a huge challenge.

Chris Bongers • Aug 10 '21

Thanks Waqar,
And it definitely is a huge challenge.
Motivating yourself is a must ✨

Cesar Aguirre • Aug 10 '21

Thanks for sharing! Agree on the content plan. I moved from blogging whatever I came to my mind to having a schedule of related posts. It made me feel less stressed about what to write next

Chris Bongers • Aug 11 '21

Hi Cesar, yeah the stress is a real thing.
I've felt this before where I was such a asshole to people around me because I was stressed about writing articles for the next day.

Coming up with the planning and writing in advance helped a lot with that.