My 8-Year Blog Journey In Minutes

Eight years ago, I published my first post—without any idea what I was doing I was starting my coding career, and one day I googled “how to get better at coding.” I kept finding “start a blog.” So I did. I built a blog on top of my GitHub account. I still host my blog there, after all these years. The early days My first post was a tutorial to compile hours of googling. OK, “tutorial” is a strong word. It was like a word vomit. Here’s my very first post, still unchanged as a reminder. My blog was a public notebook. I wrote about what I was learning at work. It was a 100% coding blog. I didn’t have any schedule or intention. I only did to improve my coding skills. The rise and fall Thanks to Income School on YouTube, I learned about SEO optimization. I learned to play the SEO, aiming at Google’s first page. I changed my style: one post every other week about a cluster of topics. To drive readers to my blog, I shared my posts on dev.to and on LinkedIn. I still reshare on dev.to and I…