A front-end developer from Mar del Plata, Argentina. Passionate about CSS, accessibility, and JS. Currently working on "just a small fix", as I've been doing for the last 15 years.
1) It helps you cultivate the intrapersonal skills and linguistics-intelligence related skills. e.i. it improves your communication, which is the most important "soft skill" any developer needs. It helps on keeping your team together and your code maintainable.
2) It helps to really learn a concept. Sure, to write about something you need to understand it first, but getting a concept into words is a great way to really make it "click" in place. Furthermore, you might find edge cases, better practices or alternate approaches when researching for your article, which is always great.
3) It helps to get valuable connections with other devs, which can be a great source for job opportunities and to start building a reputation.
4) It will help companies (or actually, the recruiters and devs interviewing you) understand your personality and what you're passionate about. Your articles can tell more than your code or your words both when it comes to being a good culture fit for the company as for being a good technical fit for the role.
Honestly, there are companies out there where the interviewing process is extremely robotic, where you'll be talking to a recruiter that has a million other resumes to go through and senior devs that will be interviewing you with absurd trivia and challenges without ever looking at your background, so whatever you've written might not be of direct use in those.
But others will really take the time to check what you're all about and find the position that better suits you.
So blogging not only helps on landing a job, it helps on landing a good job.
I'd recommend all developers to blog, specially in such a welcoming and awesome community as Dev.
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Writing helps your career in many ways:
1) It helps you cultivate the intrapersonal skills and linguistics-intelligence related skills. e.i. it improves your communication, which is the most important "soft skill" any developer needs. It helps on keeping your team together and your code maintainable.
2) It helps to really learn a concept. Sure, to write about something you need to understand it first, but getting a concept into words is a great way to really make it "click" in place. Furthermore, you might find edge cases, better practices or alternate approaches when researching for your article, which is always great.
3) It helps to get valuable connections with other devs, which can be a great source for job opportunities and to start building a reputation.
4) It will help companies (or actually, the recruiters and devs interviewing you) understand your personality and what you're passionate about. Your articles can tell more than your code or your words both when it comes to being a good culture fit for the company as for being a good technical fit for the role.
Honestly, there are companies out there where the interviewing process is extremely robotic, where you'll be talking to a recruiter that has a million other resumes to go through and senior devs that will be interviewing you with absurd trivia and challenges without ever looking at your background, so whatever you've written might not be of direct use in those.
But others will really take the time to check what you're all about and find the position that better suits you.
So blogging not only helps on landing a job, it helps on landing a good job.
I'd recommend all developers to blog, specially in such a welcoming and awesome community as Dev.