I started my programming blog mostly because it was one of the common recommendations for marketing ebooks (the idea was that you could share your blog posts on

I started my programming blog mostly because it was one of the common recommendations for marketing ebooks (the idea was that you could share your blog posts on HN/Reddit/Twitter/etc and hopefully readers would get to know about the books). I don't have analytics on my blog to know how effective that was. But, I did manage to write some posts that I'm really proud of.