Blogtober 2018 posts

• 1st October: Kick-off post (this one!)
• 2nd October: Simple vs clever code style
• 3rd October: Using email newsletters to stay up-to-date with web development
• 4th October: Displaying Column Card Counts in Trello
• 5th October: Current Development Learning Goals
• 6th October: Coming soon!
• 7th October: Blogging on your birthday
• 8th October: Coming soon!
• 9th October: Coming soon!
• 10th October: CSS Polka Dot Background
• 11th October: Emoji Silhouettes
• 12th October: What a green GitHub graph doesn’t show
• 13th October: Women’s Wednesday Interview
• 14th October: Why I Like Blogging as a Developer
• 15th October: Making the Alt Key Work in iTerm2
• 16th October: Jumping around the command line
• 17th October: Coming soon!
• 18th October: Coming soon!
• 19th October: Sass or SCSS?
• 20th October: Takeaways from Lean In
• 21st October: Is that really Pair Programming?
• 22nd October: When Not to go for a Job Interview (UK Software Developer Edition)
• 23rd October: Welcoming Language
• 24th October: Missing Emoji
• 25th October: Drawing a Shield with One Div
• 26th October: The Coverage is a Lie

What is Blogtober?

Blogtober is a challenge where you pledge to write one blog post a day for each of they thirty-one days of October. I guess it was designed by someone with too much time on their hands.

I want to do it this year because:

• I have an ever-expanding list of 20+ post ideas that I never get round to writing
• I take too long to write a post, agonising over my words. I want to be able to get content out quicker and I imagine this challenge will help me improve at this.
• Practice makes perfect and I want to get better at writing blog posts.

My posts will cover the same subjects that they have over the last few months: explaining code snippets or tricks in CSS, JavaScript and other tools I use daily as a frontend web developer. I might start doing more opinion-based posts too.

Let’s see if I can keep it up!