Lesson Learnt From Simple Programmer's Blog Course
Tags: career, beginners, discuss, writing
Published: 2019-06-09 14:06:33

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# Introduction
One of the questions I encountered for my readers of the blog in the meetup I help out in.

It will be "how do they go along to start their own technical blog and what should they write about in the blog".

After reading the book ["Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual"][1] by John Sommez.

That was about one year ago, which now I had recently completed my 2nd attempt of the [blog post course][2] from [Simple Programmer][3] by John Sommez.  

Which could help in addressing a bunch of my problems in writing articles so here are some my lesson that I had to learn in the blog course that had helped me a lot and applied on a personal basis.

# Writer's Block 
Finding interesting topics to write is hard. My "process" was the age-old use of my **gut feeling**.  

Whenever I stumble across interesting articles, podcast, videos while surfing the internet during my free time.

Which inspires me to write my own articles based upon what I had gotten from it.

Now I learnt to build a list of topics to make my life easier to blog about.

# Niching Your Blog
The blogging course had taught me on niching my blog for specific readers of my content this leads me to the topic **Startup**, **Web Development** & **Python**. 

Till this day, I had written articles like my [Building Restful API With Flask, Postman & PyTest series][4] and the [Tips for Junior Developers Heading To Startups][5]

# Gaining Traffic For Your Blog
My first attempt in the course to gain traffic for my blog. I learnt to find awesome blogs that are interesting to me to comment on their blog.

The advice leads me to create an account in [Dev Community][6] to comment on articles.

That is really cool & interesting like [The 2019 React Developer RoadMap][7] or [I'm Joseph Jacks, founder and general partner of OSS Capital, ask me anything!][8]

Now I think it's much better to spend my time on the [Dev Community][6] but waste my time surfing facebook.

# Conclusion
I hope it could inspire you to launch your blogging journey or to improve your blogging skills.

To become a better developer, communicator and build your own personal brand to command a higher salary while writing articles that you are passionate about.

How I wish that I had encountered a step by step guide to starting your own technical blog.

When I was starting out before I had created my blog to reduce the number of mistakes I had encountered. 

I take home the mindset of building a technical blog to help me to become a better developer.

If you like my article, please **sign up** for Max [Adventurer's Newsletter](http://eepurl.com/dOUoUb) for awesome content I stumble across weekly in **Python**, **Startup** and **Web Development**.

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This post was originally posted on Max's blog at [Lesson Learn From Simple Programmer's Blog Course - 2 Mins](https://www.maxongzb.com/lesson-learn-from-simple-programmers-blog-course-2-mins/) and [Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/xG8IQMqMITM)


# Reference
* [Simple Programmer ][3]
* [Simple Programmer's Blog Course][2]
* [How To Start Blogging Even If You Have ZERO Experience][9]
* [Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual][1]
* [Starting Your Own Developer Blog With Gatsby][10]


[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Soft-Skills-software-developers-manual/dp/1617292397
[2]: https://simpleprogrammer.com/blog-course
[3]: https://simpleprogrammer.com
[4]: https://www.maxongzb.com/building-restful-api-with-flask-postman-and-pytest-part-3-read-time-20-mins/
[5]: https://www.maxongzb.com/tips-for-junior-developers-heading-to-startups-reading-time-4-mins/
[6]: https://dev.to/
[7]: https://dev.to/javinpaul/the-2019-react-developer-roadmap-54ca
[8]: https://dev.to/asynchio/im-joseph-jacks-founder-and-general-partner-of-oss-capital-ask-me-anything-4c52
[9]: https://youtu.be/5ZbP2YYFbo0
[10]: https://dev.to/steelwolf180/starting-your-own-developer-blog-with-gatsby---part-1-reading-time-4-mins-13ld