Whenever a friend of mine is interested in dev.to I tend to encourage them to come give it a try for a bit and even start writing, but most people think about it for a second and then say:
"I just don't know what to write about, I'm not that great."
- Someone Who Talks In Italic.
So, what made you take that first step? Maybe your reason might make sense to others that are still on the fence.
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I read Dev.to since i was in college (just graduated, working since 6 months) and now i like to post any new thing that I learn if it is not trivial, because teach something is the best way to understand it.
I have only 1 post but have a notebook with ideas to future posts, I just want free time to write them 🤔.
Good post! 🦄
I've been writing articles about communication in programming since I started coding. My original writing was an extension of the humorous-essay style I adopted in late high school, as a result of reading Letters of E.B. White, and I just honed the craft over a few years.
Once dev.to started, I was thrilled to have a better platform than just my blog to share my essays, and get intelligent feedback.
Maybe I've just never been afraid of making myself heard? I just figure, in the worst case, I'll find out I said something wrong, and now I've learned something new. In the best case, I can share my own knowledge and receive confirmation that I do know what I think I know. Either way, it's a win.
Of course, it helps to have a supportive platform like this. There are few communities I will write for, out of a basic sense of self-respect; no one likes to post if they're certain to be assassinated for it. Dev.to is a safe place to share, make mistakes, and learn! That's why I love it here.
My #motivation to write here came after the announcement that dev.to was open source, thus brings me a tranquility (different from the medium for example).
dev.to is now open source
Ben Halpern
About content? I try to share content in english, write in my personal blog in Portuguese (native language) and rewrite here in English to have a greater reach of people (for those who do not dominate Portuguese)
Whenever i encounter a problem that took me longer than 5 minutes to think about(or google about;)). I said to myself i should write doen the information, maybe someone else have the same problem.
Since 2 weeks i now write them down here as an article.
Two positive things: Everyone else can read them. I have the solution stored for later lookup.
The last one is exactly the reason why I started my blog at first.
I used Evernote but caught myself googling the same things and wanted a way to include my solutions in my search and also make them available to everyone else :)
I had posted some skeptical comments about the vision for the site. But then I decided I was being unfair by saying negative things about it without having made any posts myself.
i have known dev.to for quite some time but never posted posts, until a few months ago i really got interested, and now i come to the site at least once every other day.
Since I really like to write and share, I told myself to publish my very first article.
It's not much, but I saw the publisher aspect, and then I could have feedback on my simple script.
Now I have 4 posts, and I appreciate every feedback, so if one of your friends tell you that dev.to is not for them, on the contrary, it is thanks to these people that the platform discovers new things and new ways to discover them.
Ps: Sorry, Google Trad. is my friend in this text, so if there are faults in it or inconsistencies, it's not me :p
I was tired of writing blog posts solely on my own site, to only have 4 people read them, so I heard about this site and decided to give it a shot. My first post had a fair amount of views and comments, and I was hooked!
I already had my own blog, but I wrote here too because I had followers, even if I didn't published something, and I felt compelled, more here:
Intro & the end for the Dev.To FTUE
BG Adrian ⚛
I remembered I lurked for a while, I think I landed here in the first place because I follow Tracy Chou on Twitter and she retweeted something from dev.to's twitter account.
It only took me 5 months from joining to introduce myself ahhaha :D
This page came as suggested on my facebook feed, I saw lots of cool posts, lots of cool topics, so I wrote some articles too, I felt like this is the right page to write, and to make a presence as a developer 😊
Great topic!
I’d been posting on my site but was inspired by a colleague who was posting on medium as it was much more public. I took the plunge about a month ago to start posting here and now am really happy I did. Everyone is friendly and helpful. I’m not a developer yet but still have something to offer.
I started following this community way back in the dark ages when it was just a snarky twitter account. So I was a lurker for quite a while.
My first post was this one:
Emojifying my Bash Prompt (and why you should too)
Joseph Moore
I finally wrote that post because I had so much fun working on the stuff in it that I couldn't help but share. And then writing it led to deep thoughts about the nature of work and life and stuff, so the funny dumb post got real. But, essentially, it was because I felt I had done something cool (if dumb) that might inspire others to also do cool stuff and maybe, just maybe, help them feel like it was alright to introduce a bit of levity into their day.
I was annoyed by how callously friends of mine were talking about the cyclist murdered by Uber's negligent employees, so I wrote about it and remembered Dev from signing up ~6 months prior. Seemed more useful to post it where a few people might partake than to dump it in a void.
I was really looking for people who have worked on a niche technology and wanted them to share tools they use, any kind of products they're built and industries they're working on with that tech.
I really like the idea of documenting your journey. It kind of takes the pressure off, I don't have to come up with some crazy interesting idea or make a really long formal essay. It can be just me writing about something I learned and how I learned it.
A cool side effect about this "learning in public" thing is that you can help other people. Your content may teach them something new or maybe warn them about something you think is bad.