Nice, my clickbait title got your attention!
I've been in South Africa for those who know me, and we have been in lockdown since March! (Still ongoing).
Today was the day I was supposed to fly back, but a lockdown in The Netherlands happened... So still in South Africa!
As a celebration, I wanted to share my wins during this lockdown and inspire you.
No matter what the situation is, you can make the best of it!
Personal wins
- 💍 I got engaged to Nicole!
- ✍️ I finally started my long-delayed tech blog.
- 👨💻 I managed to get a new job, Which I started on the 1st of October.
- 🐕 We got Yaatree and got her to Dog Manners 1 already.
- 💸 I managed to create an investment portfolio.
- 🤩 Made many new online and offline friends.
- 🧗♂️ We went on many exciting hikes!
- 🏃♂️ Ran 145,3KM, Follow me on Strava.
- 🇿🇦 Launched a Discord for South African Developers
Blog wins
- 🥳 This is my 200th article!
- 🔑 I wrote every single day.
- 💌 234 people subscribed to my mailing list!
- 🕵️♂️ 17,293 Users, with 32,718 Pageviews!
- 🐦 1829 Followers on Twitter
- 📸 627 Followers on Instagram
How did you do it?
I get asked regularly how I get to such consistency, how I come up with articles, etc.
Keep an eye out for tomorrow's article, subscribe to my newsletter to not miss it!
Check out this article on the secret to my writing process.
Top 10 Articles as of today
- Vanilla JavaScript Modal Pop-up
- Goodbye comments, welcome Webmentions 🙋🏼♂️
- Top 10 Chrome extensions for developers 👀
- I made my website 28ms faster with content-visibility 🤓
- Vanilla JavaScript event listener on Multiple elements
- Vanilla JavaScript Drag n Drop
- 🛑 Stop using pixels in CSS
- CSS Flip Cards
- 5 full-stack projects to add to your portfolio before 2020 ends 🤯
- Meet Monica Lent, a self-employed software engineer
Thank you
From the bottom of my heart, thank you all for reading my articles, subscribing to my newsletter, sharing my content.
I will keep posting content and hope to inspire you.
And please stay safe, people!
Top comments (47)
Absolutely fine 🤟
Selfcare and relaxing might be the most powerful tool we have!
💯 percent this. Congrats on getting all of this accomplished (and congrats to anyone else who is just holding it together!).
The best movie ever.
Indeed.
👏 Congrats Chris. I too started a new role on Oct 1!
I started ramping up my blog back in NOV 2019 and pushed through quarantine, but honestly with two kids in the house I think quarantine made it more difficult for me to keep going.
I finally hit a breaking point when kids went back to school something needed cut, so I dropped off of all social and blogging. I had no idea it was going to be this long for things to settle in by I am slowly getting back to making some posts.
Can totally imagine, i was very privileged with a supporting fiance and no kids.
Awesome hope you enjoyed the first 2 days of the new job?
Pretty much the same job, more responsibility will roll in soon.
Amazing, its a privilege to get new jobs in these times 🙏
💯
Great job! 🙌
Wow, very impressive Bobby!
Nice to see some Laravel articles! 🤟
Thanks Chris! 🙌
Congrats man! Great job!
I've built Daily C++ Interview, published Cmake Project Creator at the beginning of #Hacktoberfest, and now I'm working on a new page/newsletter to share the best books you can read as a developer - this latter one is still under construction.
Awesome, you've been busy there!
Amazing work 🤟
The clickbait worked :)
Looking forward to your tips & tricks on how to keep a consistent writing schedule (daily?! 😱 )
Haha yes, sorry not sorry, decided it was time to do a clickbait one since it was an accomplishment.
I just started a new job so hoping the daily scheduled will keep fitting 🤟
Will be showcasing what all I did at the end of the year.
Awesome, looking forward to it!
Its too early to tell just now you know :)
Will wait eagerly
Impressive!
Half way through the lock-down I've decided to finally get going with my channel where I make videos on no-code tools. I've made 25 so far and it is hard!
youtube.com/c/HarishKotra/videos
Wow amazing, I only did my first video a week ago and it took too much time haha.
I made these during all the COVID-19 emergency: github.com/matteobruni/tsparticles
github.com/matteobruni/object-gui
Wow nice! Good work 🤟
Just wondering do you make any money off your blogs or do you write them for fun?
All for fun, I did get a free shirt and some stickers 😂
But it's mainly costing money in tools + server setup etc.
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Thanks! 🤟