Hi 👋, am glad you're here. This is my first post and am glad am making it. You might be here to know exactly what I mean by "broke into Dev.to", and that you'll know in a bit.
This is my first post on dev.to but not my first blog post generally. I've written in some few blog platforms but i haven't been consistent in any.
I would say part of the reason for the inconsistency in writing/blogging is due to the consistent hassles and struggles i/we face as a developer.
I've learnt this and that, and there's still lot of things to learn; that new technology, this new trend, the new way to do that old thing, that new javascript framework/library, there's no time and (add your own worries).
Along the line of these are what runs through the minds of so many developers, including myself.
While those statements are true, and you need to keep learning, there's one thing you should start doing (if you haven't) that'll help your career and others' in a big way. Start Writing/Blogging.
It may not be easy, but it's something that'll yield benefits to you,your future career, and others.
Yes i know you want to be a better developer.
You want to network, you want to engage yourself in the community, you want to follow discussions, you want to contribute to open source, you have to be well...a developer 🤷.
One way of actually getting engaged (i believe) is to start blogging your developer journey.
With that said, one of the challenges of maintaining a blog is actually knowing what to write about, and here's what i have to tell you. Write whatever you feel is/will be useful to someone, and don't over-think it. Grab a notepad and start writing.
Did you just understand that concept? Tell others who may have not. Did you just realize a better way to go about that stuff? Tell the world. Did you finally fix that tough bug that left you hitting your head on the wall? Tell others how you did it (you might be saving someone's head 😆).
Thanks to development, now you don't need to start building your own full-fledged blogging site to express yourself. Just hop on to Dev.to or any blogging platform of choice and let it go.
Summary
This post is actually a letter to myself (advising myself as I wrote 🙈), but i feel it would be useful to someone else, somewhere.
Even if you don't find blogging any useful to yourself as a developer, write for your future sons and daughters 🙂 and other persons whose day will be saved by your little sentences. Happy coding..🤟
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