Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?

  • Posted 2 hours ago by zlatkov
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In 2017, I started a series on Medium called "How JavaScript works". The idea was to explain to web devs what actually happens under the hood in the browser. Some stats from the most popular articles (purely organic):

* Inside the V8 engine + 5 tips on how to write optimized code: 488K views / 128K reads

* An overview of the engine, the runtime and the call stack: 423K / 166K

* Memory management + how to handle 4 common memory leaks: 421K / 77K

The blog is at ~11K followers now, almost all developers.

Back then every article ended with a plug for my startup, which was the actual reason I was writing them. My company got acquired, I kept the blog, and I took the plugs out.

When the blog was active, I had a couple of people/companies ask to buy it and a few more wanting to advertise in it. None of it made sense at the time, so I passed on all of it.

These days I don't have the time, or honestly the inspiration, for long-form technical writing like that. But it feels like a waste to just let it sit there.

Blog: https://medium.com/@zlatkov

So what would you do with it? Genuinely curious.

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