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I passed 20 years in December and wrote this about it: https://loufranco.com/blog/it-was-20-years-ago-today https://loufranco.com/blog/it-was-20-years-ago-today

• vaylian 2y ago
  > but the blog opened some doors for me (and continues to). Is there any advice you have in that regard? How do most people contact you?
  • loumf 2y ago
    It’s really just increasing your surface area of luck. When I wrote about iOS dev in 2008, I got contacted by an editor at Manning and then wrote a book. I have had people reach out to ask follow-up questions on a tech post and then hire me for a contract. To be found randomly — write a lot of posts that answer questions people Google (those are the ones I have that get the most hits). But also, when I applied to my last job, I could show some samples from my blog where I referenced their products (that I had built add-ons to). That’s just writing stuff down about what you are doing. Finally, I mostly write my thoughts — those get no SEO and aren’t as useful, but are good to send to clients when they ask for my thoughts on some subject. I have a contact page and I point people to LinkedIn to connect.