#69 Write an Excellent Programming Blog

Do you have a blog? How many articles have you written for it? Do you find it hard to keep writing or hard to get started doing technical writing? We might be able to help you out with that this week.

You're probably aware that blogging is one of the key ways to establish yourself as a thought-leader in the industry. You'll make more connections, open more opportunities, and likely find your work more rewarding if you share your experiences and expertise through blogging.

But it can be challenging to keep writing or find time for writing. That's why I asked A. Jesse Jiryu Davis from MongoDB to share his thoughts on writing an excellent programming blog.

You'll even learn about Jesse's 5 "design patterns" for blogging to help break writer's block.

Links from the show:

PyCon Talk by Jesse: youtube.com/watch?v=eHXq-IzlGUE


Excellent blog article: bit.ly/excellent-blog


Unyielding by Glyph: glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2014/02/unyielding.html


Assigning to a threadlocal is not thread-safe: emptysqua.re/blog/another-thing-about-pythons-threadlocals


Growing Open Source Seeds: kennethreitz.org/essays/growing-open-source-seeds


Why does this Python code raise a SyntaxWarning?: akaptur.github.io/blog/2014/06/11/of-syntax-warnings-and-symbol-tables


Review of O'Reilly's Building Node Applications with MongoDB and Backbone: emptysqua.re/blog/building-node-applications-mongodb-backbone


Planet Python: planet.python.org


Coding with Knives blog: codingwithkniv.es


500 Lines or Less Chapter: https://github.com/aosabook/500lines

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