Today I hit 9 years in the DEV community. I joined with the intention of blogging as I learned. But for a long time I just lurked. It wasn't until Covid that I actually blogged at a regular pace.
I'm celebrating by catching a cold. Today has been rough.
What Have I done in that time?
- Run a weekly Goals series that's been running 3.5 years. Need some accountability? Drop by on Monday and tell us your plans for the week. Then come back Friday and say how you did.
- CSS Art * A series of geeky themed images created with code. I've not done any in a while need to restart.
- Made the Top 7 Featured posts twice.
- Earned top CSS and top JavaScript Badges.
- Help Moderate posts and up vote great DEV content.
- Entered many of the DEV Challenges. And was a Co-winner in a CSS Art challenge. (link below)
- Wrote a blog post for Virtual Coffee Community announcing our 2024 Blogging Challenge.
- Followers aren't public here. It's one of the things I like about DEV. What's more important is active followers, the ones that respond to your writing.
This was made with CSS and HTML for a Frontend Challenge.
June 2025 Was a winner in the Jun 2025 Frontend challenge for CSS art.
The companion piece was a landing page about Dad Jokes. It is my Top 7 most viewed post. It also earned the Top Javascript Badge that week. Father's Day means Dad Jokes
What's Next?
I don't know. The rash of AI slop articles is making it harder to enjoy the site. Some writers may use AI as a brain storming tool to get started. But there's stuff that's clearly just not altered and is copy pasted as whatever the AI spit out.
This hurts the community. Just make it harder to find blogs with a personal touch.
I'm going to restart my personal challenge to blog more each month than the same time last year.
-$JarvisScript git commit -m "9 years!"
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