TL;DR

Today marks 5 years of me being on dev.to. In general, I gotta say that I like the community (I just got this nice badge, so what's not to like 🙂), and wish to be on the platform 5 years from now too.

Stats

I like stats (and working towards improving them), so I'll share my stats from these 5 years:

• Posts: 92
• Total post reactions: 847
• Total post views: 273,102
• Followers: 2895
• Following users: 36

Top 5 most viewed blog posts

• Making AJAX calls in pure JavaScript, the old way - 93k views
• How to make a native Android app that can block phone calls - 24k views
• Git branching done right with Gitflow & improving code quality with code reviews - 19k views
• JWT authentication in an Angular application with a Go backend - 16k views
• How to get started with Ionic framework 3 on Mac and Windows - 12k views

Personal favorites that, IMHO, could use a bit more view-love

• Learn Git fast as if your job depends on it - 12k views
• How to 'make it' as a remote developer? - 273 views
• Too many books, not enough time - 237 views

Daily-Thought Series

Recently, I started a new daily-thought series where I post a tweet-like tiny blog post entry every day. The post that got the most exposure in that series was Knowing != Doing. Please feel free to check out the rest and chime in on the discussion.

Learnings

I shared a bunch of learnings from when I published my 300th blog post on my blog.

One thing that still holds to this day is the consistency. What you're consistent with, you will improve.