One Year Blog Anniversary 🥂
Tags: showdev, writing, programming, career
Published: 2021-09-30 22:37:13

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title: One Year Blog Anniversary 🥂
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date: 2021-09-09 23:15:00 UTC
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This week marks a special event for me as it is the first anniversary of my blog! During one year, I steadily wrote at least one post per week about a variety of subjects, mostly technical! To celebrate this achievement, I decided to write this short article on it. 🎉

## **One post per week**

Some weeks, it was not easy to write and share something as I was relatively busy in my personal time with my house, but I made it! For some weeks, I was able to keep in bank 3 or 4 articles in advance, but after some busier weeks, at many times I found myself writing and finishing an article on the day of its release (Thursday). So, if I want to be able to keep my strike, I should find a way to dedicate more of my personal time to writing. ✍️

## **Best subjects**

With my [Tags page](https://www.benjaminrancourt.ca/tags), it is pretty obvious that I like to blog about some of my DevOps expertise: [GitLab](https://www.benjaminrancourt.ca/tag/gitlab) (32 min read), [Docker](https://www.benjaminrancourt.ca/tag/docker) (18 min read) and [Traefik](https://www.benjaminrancourt.ca/tag/traefik) (15 min read). The [_Personal projects_](https://www.benjaminrancourt.ca/tag/personal-projects)_'_ tag demonstrates that I am occupied with a lot of personal side projects. It may be time to review some of them to see if I want to pursue them? 😛

## **Statistics**

Against all odds, there are some people who are reading me, either on this website or where I syndicate my posts ([Dev.to](https://dev.to/ranb2002), [Medium](https://benjaminrancourt.medium.com/) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminrancourt)). I know they are vanity metrics, but I cannot resist looking at them sometimes with [unami](https://umami.is/), [Google Search Console](https://search.google.com/search-console) or the dashboard on Dev.to and Medium. Most of them are organically referred from search engines, as I don't take the time yet to share them on social media. Should I share them at least on Twitter? 🐦

## **Necessary** reflection

But, before doing that, I will need to seriously reflect on the goals I want for my personal website! 🤔 It will probably be one of my next posts! 😉

## **Next actions for my blog**

Meanwhile, regardless of my conclusion, there are some actions that I want to tackle in the next year for my blog:

- Gain 100 followers on Medium
- Improve the tags page
- Transform my blog to a website, to add more pages like a page about me, services that I can provide, etc.

## **Conclusion**

I don't know if you are a regular reader of my blog, but I want to thank you for reading it! Each time I wrote a post, I'm thinking about you! 🥰 Seriously, I hope my articles are relevant and useful to you! 😇

Stay tuned for the next posts and stay safe! 😁

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