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I wrote 200 articles during lockdown, what did you do? πŸ€”

Chris Bongers on October 04, 2020

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 ong...
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Karan Gandhi

Nothing

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Chris Bongers

Absolutely fine 🀟
Selfcare and relaxing might be the most powerful tool we have!

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Tyler Auerbeck

πŸ’― percent this. Congrats on getting all of this accomplished (and congrats to anyone else who is just holding it together!).

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Sandor Dargo

The best movie ever.

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Karan Gandhi

Indeed.

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Waylon Walker

πŸ‘ 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.

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Chris Bongers

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?

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Waylon Walker

Pretty much the same job, more responsibility will roll in soon.

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Chris Bongers

Amazing, its a privilege to get new jobs in these times πŸ™

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Waylon Walker

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Bobby Iliev • Edited

Great job! πŸ™Œ

  • 🌊 I reached almost 3k contributions on the DigitalOcean community forum
  • πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» I've posted nearly 60 posts on the DevDojo site
  • πŸ™Œ Reached 200+ subs on my small YouTube channel that I started recently
  • πŸ±β€πŸ’» Reached 1000 reactions and 50k views on Dev
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Chris Bongers

Wow, very impressive Bobby!

Nice to see some Laravel articles! 🀟

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Bobby Iliev

Thanks Chris! πŸ™Œ

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Sandor Dargo

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.

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Chris Bongers

Awesome, you've been busy there!
Amazing work 🀟

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Liu Yongliang

The clickbait worked :)
Looking forward to your tips & tricks on how to keep a consistent writing schedule (daily?! 😱 )

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Chris Bongers

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 🀟

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Swastik Baranwal

Will be showcasing what all I did at the end of the year.

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Chris Bongers

Awesome, looking forward to it!

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Swastik Baranwal

Its too early to tell just now you know :)

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Chris Bongers

Will wait eagerly

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Harish Kotra (he/him)

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

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Chris Bongers

Wow amazing, I only did my first video a week ago and it took too much time haha.

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Matteo Bruni • Edited

I made these during all the COVID-19 emergency: github.com/matteobruni/tsparticles
github.com/matteobruni/object-gui

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Chris Bongers

Wow nice! Good work 🀟

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Chad Adams

Just wondering do you make any money off your blogs or do you write them for fun?

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Chris Bongers

All for fun, I did get a free shirt and some stickers πŸ˜‚
But it's mainly costing money in tools + server setup etc.

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***

This guy writes

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Chris Bongers

Thanks! 🀟

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Thomas

I worked. Got to pay the house.

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Chris Bongers

Also very important!

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Krypton | Madhusudan Babar

Wow! Awesome 🀩 🀩 🀩

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Chris Bongers

Thank you πŸ”₯

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devcoder

i started my journey of web dev, went from knowing nothing at all to HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, and just dipping into REACT

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Chris Bongers

Wow amazing all wihtin lockdown?

What a goal, let’s celebrate that as well πŸŽ‰πŸΎ

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Moustafa Mahmoud

console.log(hello world) πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Chris Bongers

You forgot the quotes there πŸ˜‚

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Zen

Wow πŸ₯³

It's motivate me for writing more... I was share this post to my writing Community...

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Chris Bongers

Awesome, glad it motivated you to write more!
I in return get inspired by comments like this to write more and better 🀟

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Chris Bongers

Thanks, that’s golden advice 🀘

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Dan

Good for you sir! I hope you continue to write such incredible articles!

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Chris Bongers

I hope so too, it keeps myself so on top of learning and growing myself

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Jason Melton

Congrats! I've been enjoying your stuff. Keep up the good work!

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Chris Bongers

Thanks Jason, will do.
Can't wait to celebrate one year of blogging.

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Chris Bongers

Awesome, and finally someone showcasing data science!

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Javier Zambrano Ferreira

I spent more time with my family. :)

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Chris Bongers

Family time is amazing, it’s nice something so bad can have such a beautiful impact πŸ₯°