I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my English and my writing skills, partly because I kept having a lot of random ideas in my head and I wanted to write them down somewhere.

Erik Bernhardsson

A developer shares five years of blogging lessons, covering traffic growth, infrastructure choices (moving from WordPress to Jekyll and then to S3+CloudFront), and writing strategies. Key takeaways include: quality over quantity drives disproportionate traffic, post titles matter enormously, static site hosting on S3/CloudFront is far more reliable than self-hosted servers, and blogging reinforces professional visibility and recruiting. Also covers practical tips on RSS, OpenGraph metadata, email newsletters via Mailchimp, and the mutual reinforcement between blog and Twitter/GitHub presence.

Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years

History of my blog, as told by Google Analytics