Blog Writing for Developers

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• Come to think of it, I use it for lots of conference talks too. It looks like this:
  1. Tell them what you’re going to tell them
  2. Tell them
  3. Tell them what you told them (View Highlight)
• An intro
  What is this thing, and why should the reader give af be interested?
  This could be a brief explanation of why I am interested in it, or why you would want to read my take on it. The key thing is you’re relating to your audience here. Not everyone wants to read everything you write, and that’s ok. (View Highlight)
• What to write will often come from the “Why” above, but let’s imagine that the creative juices aren’t flowing and you still really want to get a blog written.
  A really excellent place for ideas is the community around the thing you want to write about. Go and lurk (or even better, join in) at StackOverflow, Twitter, Slack, Discord…wherever the community is: (View Highlight)
• • What questions do people repeatedly ask?
  • What are the anti-patterns and misunderstandings that you see?
  • What are the new trends?
  • What cool things can you do with $THING (View Highlight)