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Cryptocollectibles is a new field that is growing and incubating and not much has been written about it.
> but almost every topic I think of has been written upon by someone
That same logic applies to almost everything, including most creations, products, items, professions, jobs, and certainly most business ideas too. What is truly unique and original? Not much. Some of the best ideas are simply new takes on existing things.
The best inspiration comes from the development work you are doing for work or a hobby project. When you start something new or run in to an issue doing something create an article. Detail what you are doing and what documentation your are following. Outline the steps, pitfalls/potential pitfalls and how to overcome them. Almost everything we do whether something new or doing something new detailing the steps and pro…
Previously I had a blog where I wrote about any issues I ran across while developing, or anything that required a decent amount of research to solve. I would regularly reference it, and other people found it useful (based on the traffic I received).
How hard it can be to do a pushup? But everyone has his own style of video and maybe you don't like/understand 8 in 10 then 9th is not that good and 10th is something you like.
With CS stuff like programming, maybe your approach will be understandable for people more that what is already written. Maybe you will pick up some detail that others skipped.
My main point here is, even if you are writing about the most mundane topic, in CS there is bound to be something, a different command line flag, a different point of view, something old rediscovered etc. just by the virtue of writing on it. Will it happen on your first attempt? Probably not.
You can start to write about the most mundane or the most esoteric thing. Only with practice would you find a niche, and there eventually will be some gems.
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Previously I had a blog where I wrote about any issues I ran across while developing, or anything that required a decent amount of research to solve. I would regularly reference it, and other people found it useful (based on the traffic I received).
Why did you stop?
I have a popular Apache Spark blog on Medium ( https://medium.com/@mrpowers ). Spark is a niche technology and there isn't a lot of competition. I rank #1 on Google searches for common searches like "spark null", "testing spark", and "spark udf". I haven't done any SEO - I just write what I need to teach my coworkers and Google has picked up my articles. I'd look for a rapidly growing technology that's relatively new…
Import your content into Medium (aka "republishing") and you can keep your new blog and still get the popularity boost from your existing Medium blog: https://ryanbattles.com/post/reposting-content
I tried going down your path and blogged only about stuff that's arcane or interesting tech wise, and it did nothing but cause me writer's block and turn me off blogging. Learn to write for yourself first. If you set up Raspian on a Raspberry Pi over the weekend, write about it! If you popped a CentOS install disk and set up a server, write about that. It doesn't matter if there's 10000 blog posts about the same exac…
This is good advice. I too have a personal blog that I mostly neglect. This past week we "cut the cord" on our cable TV service at home and the process has inspired me to blog. I've been composing blog posts "in my head" for the past few days and I take this as a good sign about my future intentions. I have thoughts on Xfinity's value, YouTube TV's ad policies, Hulu's DVR restrictions, Roku's awesome interface - all…
Write about https://mokens.io . This is a new technical tool that enables regular people to design and create their own cryptocollectibles. I can give you any/all the data you need to write about this. Cryptocollectibles is a new field that is growing and incubating and not much has been written about it.
I'm genuinely curious, I would probably read something about it. They seem useless for the commonplace at surface value.