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Discussion on: Should developers write blogs?

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Raphael Jambalos

Hi Ali! I agree with you on your blogging reasons. I personally blog as a final step in my research. When I'm able to write about it in a way that forces me to be organized enough for other people to understand my thoughts, I consider my research sufficient.

My blog also helped me land my 2nd job, as a Senior Cloud Developer. One look at my blog and they saw the depth of the topics that I write about. Plus points for those blog posts that have a lot of likes and comments.

An unexpected positive side effect that I got was when someone actually commented on my blog posts, and not just an ordinary comment but something that tells me that they have actually read it. A few people actually message me about my Docker tutorials and I helped them to have it up and running. This helps me sustain writing blog posts because I know I'm not writing to a wall, where no one listens.

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Ali Taha Shakir

Hi Raphael, you are so right! its a great feeling when someone read your content and interacts with you about it.