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It’s the summer holidays, after all. So I wanted to spent some time with my 7 years old daughter to teach her programming. ⌨️ I spent some time before discussing with her some of the basics concept verbally: the different parts of a computer, and bas...

This article is a follow up on my previous one introducing the concept of SE Spectrum: https://sonny.alvesdi.as/a-better-way-to-discuss Existing solutions For long, the easiest way to run a spectrum was to use visual drawing or diagram tools like ...

Introduction to SE Spectrum

One of the greatest tool available on GitHub is Dependabot. For those not familiar with it, in short it's a bot reviewing your list of dependencies and proposing PRs to update them. https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/getting-started/dependabot-...

Photo by Harli Marten on Unsplash As long as I remember I have always been interested by skepticism. And I think one element that really resonated with me has been that conference talk by Phil Plait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrFRbGjUtJk 15 ...

Hashnode is a blogging platform dedicated to developers and people around software development. And this is the platform powering my current blog.
Why should you join?
No-code ✔️
Create an account and start blogging right away, without a line of code.
Markdown Ⓜ️
Write your article in Markdown, and some HTML as well. And there's a preview!
Custom domain 📇
Map your custom domain to your Hashnode blog like me sonny.alvesdi.as.
Great community 🧑🤝🧑
Authors regularly exchange in the comment section of their articles! And there is a Discord too.
Analytics 📈
Directly in their dashboard, or link your favorite provider like Google Analytics, Plausible, Matomo, etc.
Synergy with daily.dev 🤝
Get the daily.dev browser extension and create an account. Then you can link your Hashnode account with it. And your articles may be picked up by daily.dev automatically. It will drive traffic to your blog automatically.
And more ➕
Writing bootcamps, Support, Achievements you can unlock (called badges), some swag, AMA, GraphQL API, ...
So don't hesitate, join Hashnode, start blogging! Or even just for commenting on my articles haha!
Use my referral link to join the community: https://hashnode.com/@sonny-ad/joinme. It may make me an ambassador and unlock some features for me, to be transparent.
Tips: if you do start a blog, you can also submit your articles on Hacker News here: https://news.ycombinator.com/submit super easily. It may drive even more readers to your blog!