TL;DR
Today marks 5 years of me being on dev.to. In general, I gotta say that I like the community (I just got this nice badge, so what’s not to like 🙂), and wish to be on the platform 5 years from now too.
Stats
I like stats (and working towards improving them), so I’ll share my stats from these 5 years:
- Posts:
92 - Total post reactions:
847 - Total post views:
273,102 - Followers:
2895 - Following users:
36
Top 5 most viewed blog posts
- Making AJAX calls in pure JavaScript, the old way – 93k views
- How to make a native Android app that can block phone calls – 24k views
- Git branching done right with Gitflow & improving code quality with code reviews – 19k views
- JWT authentication in an Angular application with a Go backend – 16k views
- How to get started with Ionic framework 3 on Mac and Windows – 12k views
Personal favorites that, IMHO, could use a bit more view-love
- Learn Git fast as if your job depends on it – 12k views
- How to ‘make it’ as a remote developer? – 273 views
- Too many books, not enough time – 237 views
Daily-Thought Series
Recently, I started a new daily-thought series where I post a tweet-like tiny blog post entry every day. The post that got the most exposure in that series was Knowing != Doing. Please feel free to check out the rest and chime in on the discussion.
Learnings
I shared a bunch of learnings from when I published my 300th blog post on my blog.
One thing that still holds to this day is the consistency. What you’re consistent with, you will improve.