I'm a developer-turned-business owner who loves to explore the right tools for the job. I enjoy writing and documenting my journey. I use code as one of the tools to solve real problems.
Absolutely spot on! Great post! I'd like to show you that this post is very accurate for me and why others should follow these tips.
I'm currently on 87 posts. I started posting (very irregularly) in August of 2016. For the past 6 months, I've been able to publish at least 1 blog post every single week. So where do the ideas come from? For me, they come from what I'm currently working on. Take my last two posts for example. They're all about Golang because that's what I'm working on at the moment. Go back about a year and a half and you'll find a lot of Angular and Migrating AngularJS to Angular posts, it's because I was working on that at that point in time.
I write about these topics to highlight new discoveries, write about a problem I am facing or have solved. I also write to get the ideas out of my head and onto the screen. These two reasons cover the last two points of this post:
Do not be afraid to write about topics you've learned about recently
Learn by teaching
Then you have the first point: "Do not be discouraged to write a post about something because somebody else has already written about it". Completely agree. Many people tell the same story in completely different ways and one version might resonate much better than the other for you personally. When I learn something new, I won't read one blog post on the subject, I will go through very many, even if they're all about the same topic. Every blog post adds a little extra information or explains something a bit differently and it helps me to grasp the subject much easier.
For me personally, I write for myself and others happen to read it as well. I don't really care if no one reads my blog posts, because the act of writing it has already fulfilled the whole goal of the blog post for me. Teaching others is a great side effect, but is not my goal per se. I don't look at the stats on this website or Medium and don't even track anything on my personal blog. Just to remove the temptation to start focusing on the numbers rather than the writing.
Again, this blog post is absolutely spot on! Thank you for putting this into the world!
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Absolutely spot on! Great post! I'd like to show you that this post is very accurate for me and why others should follow these tips.
I'm currently on 87 posts. I started posting (very irregularly) in August of 2016. For the past 6 months, I've been able to publish at least 1 blog post every single week. So where do the ideas come from? For me, they come from what I'm currently working on. Take my last two posts for example. They're all about Golang because that's what I'm working on at the moment. Go back about a year and a half and you'll find a lot of Angular and Migrating AngularJS to Angular posts, it's because I was working on that at that point in time.
I write about these topics to highlight new discoveries, write about a problem I am facing or have solved. I also write to get the ideas out of my head and onto the screen. These two reasons cover the last two points of this post:
Then you have the first point: "Do not be discouraged to write a post about something because somebody else has already written about it". Completely agree. Many people tell the same story in completely different ways and one version might resonate much better than the other for you personally. When I learn something new, I won't read one blog post on the subject, I will go through very many, even if they're all about the same topic. Every blog post adds a little extra information or explains something a bit differently and it helps me to grasp the subject much easier.
For me personally, I write for myself and others happen to read it as well. I don't really care if no one reads my blog posts, because the act of writing it has already fulfilled the whole goal of the blog post for me. Teaching others is a great side effect, but is not my goal per se. I don't look at the stats on this website or Medium and don't even track anything on my personal blog. Just to remove the temptation to start focusing on the numbers rather than the writing.
Again, this blog post is absolutely spot on! Thank you for putting this into the world!