{"id":4561,"date":"2022-02-23T13:07:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2022-02-23T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:07:46","slug":"five-year-club-at-dev-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/miscellaneou\/five-year-club-at-dev-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Year Club at dev.to"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>TL;DR<\/h2>\n<p>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&#8217;s not to like \ud83d\ude42), and wish to be on the platform 5 years from now too.<\/p>\n<h2>Stats<\/h2>\n<p>I like stats (and working towards improving them), so I&#8217;ll share my stats from these 5 years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Posts: <code>92<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Total post reactions: <code>847<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Total post views: <code>273,102<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Followers: <code>2895<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Following users: <code>36<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Top 5 most viewed blog posts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/nikola\/making-ajax-calls-in-pure-javascript-the-old-way-ed5\">Making AJAX calls in pure JavaScript, the old way<\/a> &#8211; 93k views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/nikola\/how-to-make-a-native-android-app-that-can-block-phone-calls--4e15\">How to make a native Android app that can block phone calls<\/a> &#8211; 24k views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/nikola\/git-branching-done-right-with-gitflow--improving-code-quality-with-code-reviews\">Git branching done right with Gitflow &amp; improving code quality with code reviews<\/a>  &#8211; 19k views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/nikola\/jwt-authentication-in-an-angular-application-with-a-go-backend--13cg\">JWT authentication in an Angular application with a Go backend<\/a> &#8211; 16k views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/nikola\/how-to-get-started-with-ionic-framework-3-on-mac-and-windows\">How to get started with Ionic framework 3 on Mac and Windows<\/a> &#8211; 12k views<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Personal favorites that, IMHO, could use a bit more view-love<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/nikola\/learn-git-fast-as-if-your-job-depends-on-it-dgj\">Learn Git fast as if your job depends on it<\/a> &#8211; 12k views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/nikola\/how-to-make-it-as-a-remote-developer-4bii\">How to &#8216;make it&#8217; as a remote developer?<\/a> &#8211; 273 views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/nikola\/too-many-books-too-little-time-1df1\">Too many books, not enough time<\/a> &#8211; 237 views<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Daily-Thought Series<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, I started a new <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/t\/improvement\">daily-thought series<\/a> where I post a tweet-like tiny blog post entry every day. The post that got the most exposure in that series was <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/nikola\/knowing-doing-3j6p\">Knowing != Doing<\/a>. Please feel free to check out the rest and chime in on the discussion.<\/p>\n<h2>Learnings<\/h2>\n<p>I shared a bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/miscellaneou\/writing-300-posts-think-start-blogging\/\">learnings<\/a> from when I published my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/miscellaneou\/writing-300-posts-think-start-blogging\/\">300th blog post<\/a> on my blog.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that still holds to this day is the consistency. What you&#8217;re consistent with, you will improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Today marks 5 years of me being on dev.to. 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