Six Months In - Planning The Future of This Blog

My first blog post was published on the 19^th of January 2015. Since then, I have written 16 blog posts on various topics such as interviews, tutorials, and personal projects. All of my posts have earned a gross readership of 557 readers!

While I aimed for one blog post a week, I slacked off making the blog posts less frequent. I’ve also made two (terrible) videos and some side projects.

While all that’s great, I could do better. To do that, I hope to,

• Post more consistently - more than the one a month I currently do,
• Gain more readers - to satisfy my ego as it would signal that my writing has value,
• Showcase my projects - so I can show you how you could make something similar like I did with QuickPush,
• Get a dedicated website for AGCKB - to learn more about LAMP development and gain greater control over the blog.
• Make more videos and better - I have a new series planned for July 30¹, stay tuned for that.
• Get better at hackathons - so far, I haven’t made something I can really be proud of since I either give up or the team falls apart. Hopefully, I can do better in the coming years.
• Get better at blogging - I was inspired by blogs such as Scott Hanselman’s Personal Website and College Info Geek
• Increase exposure - my most popular post on the GitHub Education pack brought in the majority of those views. Maybe I should do that more often?
• get a forum - that way, I can have very valuable discussions with my readers. I hope to have a subreddit in the near future².
• improve community interaction - in other words, be more active on social media…in a healthy way.

With these goals, I hope this blog can continue to grow. I’m hoping to build a strong community of coders from all backgrounds here.