GDG DevFest 2019
October 12th, 2019
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Resources
- https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden
- https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/node-apis/#createPages
- https://aravindballa.com/writings/gatsby-without-graphql/
- https://github.com/shrutikapoor08/devjoke
- https://twitter.com/seanwes/status/1182327664427667456
Notes
Why people don't do it
- I'm not an expert
- You don't have to be one
- You will be helping someone at Level 0 to come to Level 1
- Triangle - a lot of the people are beginners (at the base)
- Someone already wrote about it
- Think about journalists - do you really think one does not cover news because another fellow already thought about it?
- Why write the same thing
- What about your view on that topic?
- What if all others are difficult to understand and you nail it for a beginner?
- I'm not an expert
Why you should actually do it?
Help others
When you try to explain something, you learn it better.
If someone looks at your blog, they know you are familiar with things
I'm not asking you to write only tech, write anything
It is a blog, sure, but it is also a wiki. It's a spot where I can post ideas, snippets, resources, thoughts, collections, and other bits and pieces that I find interesting and useful. Instead of always being a "performance" level of blogging, it can be a looser more human endeavor that drops the idea of robots sorting the content (in this case simply by date created) and embraces the idea of curation, by me, for you.
- Write how you wish things should be
- If you like a course that you took recently, write why.
- If you are building something, journal the progress
- Consider your blog as a digital garden