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I wrote 1000 articles, what’s next?

Chris Bongers on December 22, 2022

Most of you know me for my consistency, a golden arrow in my blog series. I've written 1000 articles in 1008 days! Almost an article a day, and my...
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Dev Geos

Hello I have **some questions **to ask you, if you will want to answer me :

  • How long have you been writing articles ?
  • Did you start from scratch (with seo of your site) or did it already have some visibility at the beginning of your challenge?
  • Did daily writing give more visibility on your blog and how much ?
  • Do you have a particular intention when you started this challenge ?
  • What advice would you give to someone who wants to try it ?

So sorry for my bad english :)

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Chris Bongers

No worries, happy to answer them:

  • This blog 1008 days 👀
  • I stated with nothing, literally day one was the launch of the domain and new twitter account and empty mailing list
  • Hmm yeah I think so because people got inspiring by the consistency so lot of shout-outs from that
  • Nope, weird enough not! I just wanted to write and learn some dev things I didn't have time for at work
  • Try short stints like 10 articles in 10 days, or 30 days of writing.

Hope it helps! 🙏

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Dev Geos

Thanks for reply, I appreciate it

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Pandita

Congratulations Chriiiis 🎉 on both your pregnancy (please sends my congrats to your wife as well, so exciting!) and on your 1000 articles!! I'm glad to have been able to participate a bit on your journey and I've always been inspired by your dedication. You definitely deserve a break!!

Enjoy your new journey in life 🕊️ ✨

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Chris Bongers

Thank you so much, more exciting things to come soon.
But first definitely enjoying that break!

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Harry

That's a hell lot of articles. Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Could you share your dev.to stats?

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Chris Bongers

Hey, thanks Harry

And sure, does this help:

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(Missing some from the first days where I didn't repost I see.

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Harry

Wao that's so amazing, you are about to cross 1M views. congratulations in advance ☺️

Keep doing it 🎉🎉

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Ayu Adiati • Edited

Congrats for the pregnancy, Chris! 🎉

Loved to see your blog content, but I understand if you think it's enough. I do admire your constancy! ❤️
I wish I have constancy as yours 😅

I'm looking forward to your next form of content!
And cheers to what the future brings! 🥂

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Chris Bongers

Thanks a lot!
Your articles inspire me a lot, super calm and profesional way of explaining things 🥳

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Ayu Adiati

Thank you, Chris! 🙏😊

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Alex Lohr

That is really an awesome achievement, Chris! Both the 1000 articles and the fatherhood, that is. Congratulations! You're officially awesome!

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Chris Bongers

Thanks Alex, for all the lovely interactions and help over the years.
Any tips as a experienced dad?

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Alex Lohr

Learn to function on a minimum of sleep. Teamwork helps a lot. Enjoy every moment, life doesn't have a rewind button.

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Tauleshwar Thakur

First of all Congratulations for your pregnancy and milestone and consistency..
Can you tell me where do you get these 3d images from or if you create youself which tools do you use for making these images.

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acode123

Congratulations Chris! Both on your personal life and on your stats. I admire you for your consistency in posting an article a day, and I know how hard it is as a fellow blogger.

If I were to ask you to give me one hint on improving a website's performance, what will you answer?

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Chris Bongers

Thanks a lot!
It has been quite the challenge, but also a lot of fun!

For your question:
Keep it simple, follow semantics and cut things you don't need.
Also secondary, keep measuring like monthly :)

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Govind Vyas

This the first time I landed to your blog, Not read a single article before, unfortunately 😔

Though, I clicked follow on you just to learn consistency and dedication. It's like you have been rewarded a super power for what you do 🙂

A lession learnt, how to love your passion and dedicate yourself 😍

And, of course congratulations 🎉

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Chris Bongers

Thanks Govind,

Well the 1000 articles are still there, so feel free to scroll through some 🥳

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Marcio Policarpo

First, congratulations on your pregnancy. May he come with health and bring many blessings to his family. Secondly congratulations on 1000 articles. In fact, it is a herculean task, which requires dedication and, above all, a willingness to share knowledge and opinions. I can only wish you success, personally and professionally.

Sorry if I wrote something wrong but I had to resort to some "tools" to translate the text into English.

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Chris Bongers

Thanks a lot!

Means a lot 🙏

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Amir-cahyadi

Nice sir 👍❤️

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Chris Bongers

Thanks

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artydev • Edited

Hy Chris,

You are an example for me :-)
For the site I would be very interested but I am not very brave at writing...

Regards

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Chris Bongers

Thanks, that makes my day

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Aneeqa Khan

Many congratulations Chris!

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Chris Bongers

Thanks 🥳

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Nicola Erario

1001?

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Chris Bongers

Oeh dalmatian one 👀😂

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Chris Jarvis

Congratulations on becoming a dad. You're gonna need to make some content and hold ahead of the due date. The you have stuff to schedule later. You'll be too tired once the little on arrives.

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Chris Bongers

I actually bought daily-dad-tips.com (no joke) 👀

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Chris Jarvis

Do you follow David Neal? He's a Dev advocate and speaker. He does sketch notes and did a daily dad joke sketch that he turned into a book. He @reverentgeek@techhub.social on social media.

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CitronBrick

Congratulations! It's an incredible achievement. How many unicorns did you get? I still have articles in draft, for almost a year.

24 to 1024

xkcd.com/1000/

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Tyler Hawkins

Nice work Chris! That's quite an accomplishment. And congrats to you and your wife! Time for your next big adventure. 🙂

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Chris Bongers

Thanks a lot, can't wait for this new adventure

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Mike Talbot ⭐

That's acheivement through dedication! Well done, what a great success.

Congratulations on your upcoming fatherhood, a great educator is going to make a great parent!

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Chris Bongers

Thanks a lot, hope he takes after both his parents a bit 😂

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Leonardo Montini

I was waiting for this post a few days ago when I noticed you were at ~990 :D

Congratulations Chris and good luck for your future!

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Chris Bongers

Fun fact: I actually thought 990 was the day, and miscalculated 😅

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Wilmela

This is an amazing feat. Thanks for your contributions.

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WISDOMUDO

Congratulations Man.

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Chris Bongers

Thanks!

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Ramo Mujagic

Amazing effort. Congrats 🎉

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Chris Bongers

Thanks a lot

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Lotfi Jebali

To many more 🙏

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Maxi Contieri

Amazing stats and congratulations on your new BIG project

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Chris Bongers

Hehe, keen to do some debugging on that one

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Neha Sharma

Awesome Chris. Congratulations for baby <3

Looking forward for more content. You are an inspiration for me.

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Chris Bongers

So keen to meet the little one now 🥳

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Mohamed Ibrahim

Congratulations Chris!

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Chris Bongers

Thank you Mohamed

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Mikhail Karan

Wow that's crazy! Congratulations Chris. Both on the achievement and future fatherhood!

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Chris Bongers

Thanks so much!
Super hyped for fatherhood.

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Harlin Seritt

Pretty cool! Congrats on the new addition!

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow

This is an incredible blogging marathon 🤩
Also, I didn't notice anyone mention it, but I saw that in one of the comments on the stats screen you have 10015 subscribers. So, you had another significant achievement quite recently. So my triple congratulations! 🍾🍾🍾
I would like to give you one piece of advice, if you don't mind - pin your favorite articles so that we can enjoy your best work, which may undeservedly rest at the bottom of your page 🔝

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DigitaBoss

What can you say kept you going.

Congratulations by the way

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Chris Bongers

Thanks a lot

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Pavel Rossinsky

That's impressive. Congratulations!

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Chris Bongers

Thank you 🙏

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Neo Sibanda

Wow Congratulations Chris. How long have you been writing articles ? What advise would you give to someone who also wants to try writing articles too.

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Chris Bongers

1008 days for this blog 🤯

But had a non technical blog before that.
I would say, start small and don't be afraid to publish, my first articles sucked and I went back to fix them later on.

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John Peters

Congratulations Chris. I too enjoy tech writing. I choose series based on the new things I learn. My articles serve as a reminder to myself on how specific things were accomplished. It has worked great for past 20 years as I have articles everywhere.

For 2023 this is the year I write about cloud certifications, as they may be the most important credential one can obtain.

Thanks for all the effort you contributed, we are blessed for sure.

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Thomas Bnt

Congraaaats ! 🕺🎉🎉

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Andrew Baisden

Consistency king you are like the benchmark 🥳

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Kevin Expósito

Hey Chris! Im Kevin from Uruguay and Im into writing post too! Wanted to know if you are using any platform like beehiiv for that or did you just created your own website? Ive been investigated and Beehiiv seems awesome but kind of expensive

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Atharva Shirdhankar

That's Inspiring Chris🔥

Even I wanted to consistently publish highly engaging articles but I'm unable to do so🥲.

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Amanda Swensen

It's really cool! It looks like you are the biggest writer on dev.

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Arnaud Wanet

Can you describe your workflow, how do you stay so consistent?

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SeongKuk Han • Edited

It gave me a lot of motivation. Writing an article per a day? I can't imagine how much you put your effort into it. I hope you keep your goal well as you did :) Thank you!

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Muhammad Harith Zainudin

congrats @dailydevtips1!