Inbox: "Should I write a tech blog to get good tech jobs?" You'll get more mileage by writing up three reasonably detailed articles.
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A blog is a collection of blog posts with no end date attached to it; as this is an unbounded commitment, it is surprisingly hard to start.
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(And very easy to kill. The number of dead blogs outnumbers live blogs by lots.)
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I promise I'm not being poindextery on this. How "content" is framed shapes the consumption and evaluation of it, majorly.
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"Hey what do you think of this candidate with a dead blog on Javascript?" "Oh he must lack follow-through." "And this one with 3 articles?"
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What to make your three articles about? Good stories. A problem, an investigation, a resolution. Include a bit of code; not too much.
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In my personal experience the best stories qua stories start with a very high-level business goal and then go Arbitrarily Deep down stack.
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