When entering a career, you have to find something that makes you competitive—something that makes someone say, "Hey, I want to hire this person so...
For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
Any reason you skipped over GitHub? I feel like building a following on GitHub via some open source contributions and creating packages, frameworks and apps can go a long way in gaining respect and popularity in the dev community.
Another one that I think is missing is a personal website. Many of the well known developers have their own website where they promote projects, blog articles and share opinions about important topics and issues
Yes, those are definitely interesting 🤔 I would prefer a Github as with a README, you can easily have something that can serve as a portfolio exposing your work.
Great take about github and personal website. The personal website can be used as the main hub for all your work / social links and etc
Don't churn content for the sake of it, there's more than enough terrible content already and only getting worse by the day. You only need an online presence if you want one. If you're doing it to get a job, forget it. Most hiring managers, or at least those worth their salt, won't care they'll be more interested in seeing some of your code and how you approach a problem opposed to seeing you active in multiple different places. Do what you enjoy and show that if you need examples.
that's a fair approach too
You should also try pinkary.com. It's a growing social media platform for developers by developers.
this looks nice actually. thanks for sharing Mohammed
Had never heard of it, interesting!
It's upcoming. Soon, it will be among one of the best ones.
Nice article. But I'll say, as a senior software engineer with over a decade of professional experience at big and small companies working with diverse colleagues from around the world BEFORE the AI invasion and BEFORE week long coding bootcamps I've witnessed this trend of new aspiring developers writing "Don't Do...", "Stop Using..." click bait articles because they don't have any real world experience or have any high quality personal projects to share.
I've interviewed dozens of candidates and never once ever considered one better because of a bunch of articles in a sea of already bad content that keeps getting worse.
However, I understand and been there before not having real world experience in my junior days and all these new platforms make it easy to publish stuff to create an image but at the end of the day skill comes from experience and experience comes from experience.
One thing I've done over the years is keep my work from the "close to real world" take home assignment repos in my GitHub to share and reference in situations where someone wanted to see code versus the introductory To-Do app.
Happy coding fam!
I'm a dev and founder and I've got a presence. It's great for forming connections with other creators in the programming/development niche. If you're good at it you can get quite some business too!
Appreciate these tips!
Yes, I got a lot of contracts regarding technical writing and software engineering following those tips.
Thanks for appreciating my work
Nice article, a great guide to get started!
I currently use LinkedIn, Dev.to and Medium for writing, and GitHub for share my projects and help other developers.
They are giving me good results, but it takes more time.
Sometimes, I write on Twitter and Mastodon.
that's great. i never used Mastodon but I hear people talking a lot about the platform. i will give a look
The concept of the Fediverse is beautiful in general!
Quite useful article, as for me, I was kinda succesful at some point of growing on LinkedIn, but to be honest, it's a platform of most unhonest people who comment and post just to increase their SSI with almost no interesting things.
It's hard to compete there if you're trying to make a quality, not a quantity. And I am not even mentioning too obvious usage of ChatGPT.
I am planning to get back to the LinkedIn and try something on other platforms, so great to have this article with some references, bcz tbh it's hard to find where's to start
Few years ago, you could only post 2 times per week and it would be enough. Now with AI and more people posting there, it seems you have to post a lot. However, I noticed that video content actually does pretty well there.
thanks for sharing your experience
In addition, totally agree about pressure: quite important thing to avoid, I couldn't do anything apart creating posts for LinkedIn that would be at least not trash just to post something
Great article - informative, and fun to read!
thank you leob
Quite an interesting content. Skills not marketed will be redundant in this era of online presence race. You hit the nail on the head. Thank you.
yes. thank you for reading Fareed
Super article, I'll be going back to it several times for sure. Take care man
thanks man. take care of you too
Cool! This type of content is what I was looking for. I believe that many devs want to appear on social media to promote themselves
Nice post! I currently started to publish articles here on dev.to and also in my GitHub, to collect all the different things I know. I also thought about LinkedIn, but it is to bustling for me. :D
Haha XD
thanks for the appreciation about my article.
just feel free to go hard on LinkedIn when you feel ready
Great article . I will try to follow the steps.
Thank you Debopriyo. Let me know how it works for you
Interesting article. Thank you. I just joined dev.to and will love to write more and more not to go viral because the more I write the more I gain more insights.
That’s great. The more you write, the more you will learn about an article that can go viral. Don’t press yourself about it.
I think I'm pretty OK with my articles here on dev.to, but Im not at all consistent with pursuing an audience.
I want to improve on this, but my plan is non existence 😅.
Thanks for this!
that's okay too
take your time and do it if you want to
Does dev.to pays anything ?
No, but it has great SEO. If your articles are doing well too, you can have paid affiliate links. Just make sure to tell it to your readers.
If it is not providing something to creators then why do any creator will prefer this.
i think that because there is some pro when it comes to SEO. i have many articles that are relatively well referenced. Also, the community here is interesting
Your words are different from the social reality through focus writing and you describe it in a soulful way, which is likened to a writer as a story writer.
Having a good portfolio on top 10 main platform will help you growing a professional developer.
definitely
I value a lot the GitHub projects of the person I have to interview. If they actually have their own, original projects or contribute to others, it shows to me that they try to help a broader group of people, and they might do it as part of their daily job.
If the only thing I see there are repositories of small exercise projects, requested by companies' onboard process, that works on the opposite side for me.
Have in mind that there are also a lot of "developers" who "steal" other repositories, by not creating a fork, but copies of repositories, letting people believe that those are personal ones. Those candidates are a red flag for me.
So, if you use GitHub to get a job, this is visible to the experienced eye. But if you use it to help others, for me is a good thing.
Stack overflow seems like an obvious place as well. Any reason why you left it out?
It has been a longtime since I have used it/commented on it. I answered some questions there and had some good discussions but I found myself having more success on the platforms I cited above.
What a great article to read. It is easy to grow on LinkedIn (I have more than 2000 connections there) but my account got restricted because I violated their policies. I could get it back, but for that, I would need my passport which I currently don't have. But the engagement I get there is not great, because I don't know everyone. But, the knowledge I got from there is valuable. Someone told me how to set up ChatGPT, a great tool! I use AI to generate ideas for website structures and other insights. With X, I face a similar problem. I know nobody and there are only fake accounts following me. By engaging with posts like these, I got one follower on my chesedgames.online/ account. It is true, that consistency is key. I have a former friend who is a content creator, and I can tell you it is not easy. I have tried to be a YouTuber for years, but I failed. So now I am focusing on written content.
Cringe was totally new for me, but was 110% true! I like the way you see things. Really, in the world of digital media, if you want to play the game, those are the rules.
Exactly. Most of the time I will try to have a catchy first sentence and a picture and drop some useful stuff in the content. This is the game unfortunately and I noticed it has increased in this AI era
Thanks for this post but do you have to be an expert developer before you can start posting content online.
No, there is no need to be an expert. However, be honest about that and make sure you are learning, and experimenting and you can state it to avoid backlash.
Alright
I can confirm that it takes a lot of work and dedication.
Definitely 💯
Good article, agreed with each one of your comments specially about LinkedIn.
Look at my new tool: github.com/zonder/email-threading-...
it's my first time to reply a article with english, even not use translation software! thank you to make me got a lot of thinking ( sorry, i really not good at english)
Nice Article
What do you think about GitHub for development?