Today, I crossed 10,000+ views on Dev.to (almost 10.5k now), and I honestly felt like pausing for a moment and looking back.
When I wrote my first blog around October 2024, I had barely 3 months of industry experience.
I didn’t know what to write.
I didn’t know how to write.
And I definitely didn’t know who would read something written by me.
I remember thinking:
“Who am I to write blogs with so little experience?”
So instead of trying to “teach”, I changed my mindset.
I told myself:
I’ll write only to remember what I learned.
Whenever something felt confusing, complex, or painful to debug I’d turn that into a blog.
That’s it. No big plan. No strategy.
Blogging as a learning diary 📝
Dev.to slowly became my personal learning notebook.
- I never copied content
- I shared only what I personally struggled with, learned, fixed, and understood
- Whenever I referred to someone else’s work, I made sure to credit and thank them
This wasn’t about views.
It was about clarity for my future self.
Funny thing is, sometimes I still go back and read my own posts to revise concepts 😄
Fear, LinkedIn, and showing up anyway
In the beginning, I didn’t even tell people that I was blogging.
Posting on LinkedIn felt scary.
“What if someone judges?”
“What if seniors think this is silly?”
But once I started sharing consistently (even if not perfectly), things slowly changed.
Some posts did well.
Some didn’t.
Sometimes posts I expected to perform went nowhere and sometimes the opposite happened.
And that taught me something important:
You can’t control outcomes, but you can control consistency.
Gratitude (this matters a lot 🙏)
I’m deeply grateful to:
- The people whose blogs helped me learn
- The creators I referenced and tagged
- And especially those who never missed reacting or supporting my posts every single time
Your small reactions meant more than you know, especially in the early days.
One surreal moment in this journey was when the Team of Dev.to followed me after a hackathon something I never imagined when I wrote my first blog.
What 10,000+ views really mean to me
To some, 10k views might be small.
To me, it quietly represents:
- Courage to start without confidence
- Consistency even when I doubted myself
- Growth both technical and personal
Most importantly, it reminds me that starting imperfectly is better than not starting at all.
If you’re hesitating to write…
If you’re thinking:
“I don’t have enough experience to write”
Please know this:
You don’t need to be an expert.
You just need to be honest about your learning.
Start for yourself.
The rest will follow.
Here’s to learning in public, one blog at a time 💙
Onwards 🚀