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Chris Bongers

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

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!

Lockdown life

Personal wins

  • πŸ’ I got engaged to Nicole!
  • ✍️ I finally started my long-delayed tech blog.
  • πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» I managed to get a new job, Which I started on the 1st of October.
  • πŸ• We got Yaatree and got her to Dog Manners 1 already.
  • πŸ’Έ I managed to create an investment portfolio.
  • 🀩 Made many new online and offline friends.
  • πŸ§—β€β™‚οΈ We went on many exciting hikes!
  • πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ Ran 145,3KM, Follow me on Strava.
  • πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ Launched a Discord for South African Developers

Blog wins

  • πŸ₯³ This is my 200th article!
  • πŸ”‘ I wrote every single day.
  • πŸ’Œ 234 people subscribed to my mailing list!
  • πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ 17,293 Users, with 32,718 Pageviews!
  • 🐦 1829 Followers on Twitter
  • πŸ“Έ 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

  1. Vanilla JavaScript Modal Pop-up
  2. Goodbye comments, welcome Webmentions πŸ™‹πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
  3. Top 10 Chrome extensions for developers πŸ‘€
  4. I made my website 28ms faster with content-visibility πŸ€“
  5. Vanilla JavaScript event listener on Multiple elements
  6. Vanilla JavaScript Drag n Drop
  7. πŸ›‘ Stop using pixels in CSS
  8. CSS Flip Cards
  9. 5 full-stack projects to add to your portfolio before 2020 ends 🀯
  10. 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.

Thank you!

And please stay safe, people!

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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

πŸ’―

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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! 🀟