IT blog as a programmer's work book?

Question

Blogs

Hello!
I am a freelance programmer (freelance exchange).
I started a personal it-blog (in English) (code, scripts, configs, tutorials) with the aim of:

• as a portfolio (show the future employer my level of knowledge)
  
• as a “work book” (at least something) in case this freelance exchange closes
  
• as personal notes
  

Your opinion:

1. And yet, does it make sense? (maybe I'm delusional?)
   
2. Is it worth it to distribute my articles through habra, medium, etc (in terms of finding a future job) (or is it just for chsv?)
   
3. Is it worth it to be active on Stackoverflow (in terms of finding a future job)
   
4. How to show that I'm not ctrl+c ctrl+v? (personal screenshots, mb something else?)
   

Any thoughts? Thank you! :)
PS I can't see my activity on github and bitbucket. projects in private repos

Answer 1

1. A personal blog, if you optimize it correctly, will be able to give you leads from the search. For example, you can write several articles on the topic "Find a programmer and not miscalculate", "A good programmer is worth everything". Those. with an entry into the meta tags in the text of queries by which such a specialist can be searched. Yes, this is a purely commercial story, but you also work for money, don't you, and this is not because of the love of art, but to find clients.
2. The person who writes is always "a head taller" than the one who does not write. Of course, provided that they are at about the same level and the person does not write nonsense.
3. In order not to be considered a copy-paste, write on the blog that these are your personal articles, unique content, and that if someone wants to use it, then a link is required. Git, etc. no one cancels profile communities.
Good luck on the right direction. It's better to do it than not to do it. By the way, I found a developer for one project on Bitrix through his blog, in the search results.

Answer 2

Depending on what position you are applying for. If a technical writer, then worth it. If a programmer, then Github is better.

Answer 3

I have good profiles on habr.com stackoverflow.com github.com toster This has never helped me in finding or communicating with employers, customers. This helps keep fit.

Answer 4

Definitely worth doing it.
I also blog. I write there successful solutions and sometimes I even look there for a hint.

Answer 5

1. Of course there is, it's PR
2. Of course it's worth it, it's PR
3. Of course, but I would recommend Toaster, admins on Stackoverflow are gone.
4. Does anyone have suspicions? If a person maintains his own blog, writes on Habr and has a good rating on Toaster, the issue is closed.
There are 2 types of people. Those who seek to create and the rest. The former earn more.

Answer 6

And yet, does it make sense? (maybe I'm delusional?)

It depends on how intensively you will invest in it. IMHO such blogs can be interesting if you are experienced and "experienced". I would still focus more on existing resources - habr, stackoverflow, yandex.zen, and a medium, etc. Still, there is more life, more Central Asia.
As a source for finding work, this can hardly be fully considered for the first few years, provided that you are an active writer. Rather, for good luck, you can catch something, well, not without CSV here))
It is worth being active on all specialized resources if possible, but again - as a source of job search at the initial stage, it can be considered as very passive.
Search explicitly, send a resume, have an active github account, nowadays it is often a programmer's portfolio)
Ultimately, an ignorant person can be splurge, while a knowledgeable colleague, after weighing and reading everything about you and about you, will form his competent opinion. Remember, "whatever is said can be used against you", weigh each letter.

Answer 7

I am a freelance programmer (freelance exchange)

It seems to me that your profile, testimonials, portfolio is a good "blog" to make yourself known. Well, as they wrote - projects on github, the same codepen, etc.

Answer 8

Write a business plan for a blog + SEO plan and it will immediately become clear whether it is worth it or not.

Answer 9

And yet, does it make sense? (maybe I'm delusional?)

if you want to get a job somewhere, then this will be a plus for an HR / headhunter
see point 1
if you are talking about lead generation - then this is possible, but it will not necessarily work.
depending on which one, again. xx can find you like this, for example. but if you have found a client, and you are trying to convince him that you should be hired, SO will not give you such an advantage.
no
one will poke around in your code. even at a technical interview they will simply look at the tops. if these are not "to-do lists", then they will look at the organization of the code, style, etc., then there will be no point in figuring out the control there.
if you want to show that you are not just a mouse driver - you need a couple of unusual finished projects. and it doesn’t matter whether everything was custom there, or you stole the code of the blogger from somewhere, and made an application for plumbers out of it. the main thing is the result.

Answer 10

Any texts on the Internet can attract a customer outside the freelance exchange. I received orders after publishing on Habré, thanks to my github, and thanks to the documentation for my open source project.
So write and publish where there will be maximum audience coverage.

Answer 11

I blog. At first I wrote complex articles, but the attendance was low. Then I began to write simpler articles, but more and attendance immediately increased)

Answer 12

A blog should be started when there is something to say and share really useful thoughts. Squeezing out text for the sake of text is not cool.