My Open Source Origin Story
A developer shares their personal journey into open source, detailing their initial steps with React Query and the TanStack community in late 2020.
A developer shares their personal journey into open source, detailing their initial steps with React Query and the TanStack community in late 2020.
A developer announces the return of their technical blog after a 3-year hiatus, hinting at future posts on databases, cloud, AI, and more.
A developer reflects on his blogging journey, discussing his motivations, the evolution of his tech stack from WordPress to a custom SSG, and his writing workflow.
A developer reflects on their blogging journey, platform choices, writing process, and favorite posts, touching on web development and career.
A web developer answers questions about blogging history, platform choices, writing process, and favorite posts.
A guide on improving blog post clarity by identifying and editing confusing sentences, focusing on making technical writing understandable.
A developer explains choosing and implementing the Hyvor Talk comment system for their static blog, focusing on privacy, performance, and managed hosting.
A developer's weekly update covering work on an LLM project, custom scripting, PICO-8 experimentation, and blog theme adjustments.
Blog author removes Disqus commenting due to intrusive, irrelevant ads, replacing it with social media discussion links.
A tech blogger analyzes the decline in their blog's ad revenue, linking it to the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot.
A developer shares his process of creating a '/slash' page for his blog, inspired by Robb Knight's concept, listing various top-level URLs like /now and /ai.
Tips for writing effective content for developers, covering the AIDA formula, developer voice, and being genuinely useful.
A developer reflects on reaching 1 million blog page views, discussing their blogging journey, static site tooling, and evolution of technical content.
A reflection on two decades of blogging, focusing on its adoption at Sun Microsystems and its role in fostering technical transparency and open source collaboration.
A guide to removing timestamps from Hugo static blog posts, including updating archetypes and retroactively fixing old posts.
A developer announces a redesigned personal website, explaining the new focus on content and the move to a new hosting platform.
Advises unemployed tech professionals to build projects and blog publicly to showcase skills and subtly signal job availability on social media.
A technical guide on implementing hackable date-based URL indexes (year, month, day) in the Eleventy static site generator using custom collections and templates.
A programmer reflects on 15 years of blogging, from documenting game prototypes to finding value in writing for clarity and sharing ideas.
A developer reflects on 10 years of blogging, sharing lessons on titles, writing for yourself, and how blogging aids career growth.