How blogging can shape you to be a better develop

Writing a blog is a great way to hone your skills as development skills as you are documenting your journey into learning the ins and outs of development. By sharing your knowledge and experience with the world, it allows you to establish relationships with future employers and future colleagues.

I think that writing your blog is severely under-utilised in today's day and age. I believe that documenting your journey into becoming a developer helps you in the long run as you can go back to the old stuff that you learned in the past just in case you need a quick refresher. Documenting your problem solving-process allows you to identify your learning style, writing them down helps you go through your thought process in how you tackle problems that you face as a developer.

As you write about your journey into becoming a developer, you get to write about the ups and downs that you face, this way you will be able to recognize and implement solutions and also identify which areas of development you need to work on in the future.

Furthermore, creating your documentation helps you catch silly mistakes that you might have missed during the development as you write your solutions on a blog. Writing in your blog gives you the ability to work on your verbal communication which is very helpful when it comes to networking or just improving your fluency in general.

Enough talking about your, now let's talk about building relationships. By making high-quality content, you are essentially acting as a teacher online as you are showing your problem-solving skills which can lead you to garner an audience online and that can lead you to potential employers and clients.

By having a following online, you are creating a brand for yourself that pulls in many people that shares the same interests as you or have the same drive when it comes to learning new technologies and that is a good thing, you will be able to start a relationship and create many wonderful projects in the future.

By doing collaborations with other people, you are further cementing yourself as an expert in the field as you are showcasing your knowledge and problem-solving skills.

Who knows you might be able to pick up new tips and tricks from other people that you might implement in your own projects which is great, as that gives you the room to improve. With that in mind, collaborations with other developers often lead to recommendations and that helps massively when it comes to advancing your career, as you will be able to land new opportunities from new clients and employers.

At the end of the day, everyone should start creating a blog. It does not have to be anything fancy, you just have to be consistent with the content and over time you will be able to garner an audience that will appreciate the work that you have put in. Even if your blog does not lead you to establishing a huge following, the point of a blog is like a modern day diary, it is for you to sit down and reflect on what you have went through as a developer and nothing can change that, having a blog will shape you as who you are in the development world.