By virtue of the fact you are reading this, we are sure you could have guessed that we enjoy writing.
Over the years we have written in books, journals, and for some pretty interesting websites.
During this time we have picked up some tips and tricks, which we want to share with you here.
Decoupling Git and my Jekyll work
Reworking how I use Git with Jekyll to allow me to write more freely.
We've deleted an article's worth of unhelpful words
We've improved several pages across our site by removing words that add no value, and often detract from the article.
Getting Obsidian word count on iOS
How to quickly see how many words you have written in Obsidian
The main reasons why we shouldn't use click here as link text
There are many reasons why we shouldn't use click here or similar as link text, let's go through them
Blog posts are projects not action items
Get more blog posts written by treating them as projects instead of action items
Tools I Use When Blogging
A summary of the tools I use when blogging, updated for 2019
What I’ve learned from looking through my old posts
Here are some things I’ve learned from looking through lots of old posts of mine
How to overcome thinking that no one will find your posts useful
How to overcome thinking that no one will find your posts useful
6 Months in and bowing out
I am stopping my writing project early. I wanted to write daily for a year but couldn't quite manage it
Quality of your Input and Output
I try and prune my inputs as much as possible to keep the quality high
The iPhone is my main content creation computer
The iPhone is my main content creation computer, I do lots of stuff on it given how portable and powerful they have become
Some useful resources for generating content ideas
Here is a list of resources I found for generating content ideas
A rough guide I am going to try and follow for blog posts
Here's my thoughts on how I'm going to form my posts from now on
365 Articles in 2015
My attempt at averaging writing an article per day in 2015
Backup of Making Your Website Pay for Itself
A backup of an ebook I wrote on making your website pay for itself
Great content has no shelf life
A great example of evergreen content from over 50 years ago
Belfast Bloggers 3rd Meetup
My thoughts and feelings on the third Belfast Bloggers Meetup
Packt Publishing
Here is a bit of an overview on my dealings with Packt Publishing
Resources for making your website pay for itself
Here are a list of resources which will help when getting your website to pay for itself
Problems with Evergreen Content
Here are some of the problems that I can see with creating evergreen content
A case for writing unit tests for your blog posts
Here's some thoughts on writing blog posts and how it relates to code
Good things happen to those that blog
Some good things that come from blogging about your work
Got an article printed in the IEEE software journal
I am very excited to be published in an industry journal