I made a New Year's resolution to start blogging - mainly to get better at writing technical stuff (so far, I've been writing mostly proposals of conference talks and it was always taking me ages to write them). I'm also taking some time off from work and I will try to start consulting later this year, so first - I have more time now for the blog and second - I (hopefully ;P ) will be able to find clients through my writing.
So I wrote my first blog post in January and my resolution was to publish one post every week. So far, it's working well (yet, it takes me around 2 full days to write a 1000-1500 words post that is not even so technically advanced).
Some posts are boring, some get more traction. I wrote two posts about git .dotfiles and some interesting aliases that I'm using and they got quite popular on reddit's r/git - that was a very motivating feeling. Today, one of my posts on Medium (I'm crossposting from my blog to dev.to, Medium, HN, LinkedIn and reddit) got included in the "programming" topic and I finally got some readers there - around 30, but still (before, it was almost always 0 views). I wasn't really expecting many people to read my blog (ok, I was hoping for it, but not expecting too much traffic - meanwhile, I got 1,8k views in January).
Now, the best part of this whole story - when I was starting to write my first blog post, I found this very nice post called "My Blog Post Workflow: from Topic to Publication" on a blog called "The Zen of Programming". I've never heard about the author before (I don't follow the CSS and JS world too much), but I really enjoyed the read. It contained so much useful information and the style of writing was very nice to read, that I think it was the most useful blog that I found that day. Now, that I remember the author's name, I'm glad to see you here on dev.to (amazing community!) still giving great advices to people and thank you for helping me to start! ;)
I made a New Year's resolution to start blogging - mainly to get better at writing technical stuff (so far, I've been writing mostly proposals of conference talks and it was always taking me ages to write them). I'm also taking some time off from work and I will try to start consulting later this year, so first - I have more time now for the blog and second - I (hopefully ;P ) will be able to find clients through my writing.
So I wrote my first blog post in January and my resolution was to publish one post every week. So far, it's working well (yet, it takes me around 2 full days to write a 1000-1500 words post that is not even so technically advanced).
Some posts are boring, some get more traction. I wrote two posts about git .dotfiles and some interesting aliases that I'm using and they got quite popular on reddit's r/git - that was a very motivating feeling. Today, one of my posts on Medium (I'm crossposting from my blog to dev.to, Medium, HN, LinkedIn and reddit) got included in the "programming" topic and I finally got some readers there - around 30, but still (before, it was almost always 0 views). I wasn't really expecting many people to read my blog (ok, I was hoping for it, but not expecting too much traffic - meanwhile, I got 1,8k views in January).
Now, the best part of this whole story - when I was starting to write my first blog post, I found this very nice post called "My Blog Post Workflow: from Topic to Publication" on a blog called "The Zen of Programming". I've never heard about the author before (I don't follow the CSS and JS world too much), but I really enjoyed the read. It contained so much useful information and the style of writing was very nice to read, that I think it was the most useful blog that I found that day. Now, that I remember the author's name, I'm glad to see you here on dev.to (amazing community!) still giving great advices to people and thank you for helping me to start! ;)
Woah, that's so cool! Congrats on starting and gaining traction!