My Blogging Journey

My blogging journey has seen a lot of ups and downs. I started with Google’s Blogger then switched to WordPress and now I’m using Zola for this blog. I’m writing this post for AuguStory by Robert Birming. 2013 - 2017 I started blogging in 2013. I was inspired by success stories around blogs and it seemed like low-hanging fruit to me. I was a student at college at the time and wanted to do something to earn a few bucks for myself. So I created a blog on Blogger and named it Combuzzer. The first version is still live but hasn’t been maintained for over a decade. Combuzzer, 24 Feb 2016 From 2013 to 2015, I published around 36 blog posts. Some of those posts were based on the stuff I knew from my experience but most of ’em were inspired by the other technical blogs that I was trying to imitate. When I look back, I realize the biggest mistake I made was not writing about my own experience, for example, at the time I was learning programming by reading books, I could have written on that…