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I started blogging about developer events I was attending in Japan back in 2010. As I was the only one writing about it in English, the content naturally ranked well. That led a fellow Canadian to my blog, who asked how I found a job here. My email back to him started to get pretty long, and so I turned it into an article for the blog. That article attracted more people looking for developer jobs in Japan, so I start…
Are you founder of Japan.dev?
I used to write on Blogger.com. One time when I was attending a team meeting of a new startup in town, junior devs were asking me that they really enjoyed reading about my college experience which I have posted about on my blog. I never expected this but writing sparingly had made having conversation easier for me few times.
I recently did a consolidation and merged 3 of my different blogs into https://bhupalsapkota.com.np (tech, writings and short poems on my native language). This move was inspired by Seth Godin as he recommends frequently about publishing on your own domain.
My friends at college back in the days (2006) loved my short poems and whenever I had a new post it'd be a topic of the day in uni. Good memories.
I am hoping to write more coz I enjoy writing. But, I struggle with ideas and topics. Any suggestions how do you keep up?
It helps me gather my thoughts well. This is just a private blog, hosted on my local PC ...
I use this: https://github.com/guilt/mblog
I do write about some things on my public blog. It happens every few years.
I now am selling the domain because some celebrity gamer in south korea has that exact match name as my nickname domain and twitter handle.
I was offered 40k a year ago but declined.
Back in 1984, I wrote a BBS for a Vic-20. It had multiple rooms (message areas) which users could create and make public or private, private email and an online game, all in 9.6K of BASIC. It was very popular with each user spending an average of 70 minutes on it. One of my users hired me as a programmer, saying "Anyone who can write a BBS for a Vic can program!"
Thirty years later, that same guy wanted me to work with him at Google.
I'm not aware of anybody except me having visited my blog. I also don't enjoy writing it, and haven't learned anything particularly useful from doing so.
I know most work deserves to be money driven. But I love how the programming community keeps this social-driven effort. Hope people never stop writing great blog/articles just to keep the art of programming growing.
I've gotten several consulting gigs and met some lovely people because of my sites. I got my current job because an executive ran across one of my sites, then tracked me down on LinkedIn. That's the second one I've gotten because of them.