I wrote 200 articles during lockdown, what did you do? 🤔

Nice, my clickbait title got your attention!

I've been in South Africa for those who know me, and we have been in lockdown since March! (Still ongoing).

Today was the day I was supposed to fly back, but a lockdown in The Netherlands happened... So still in South Africa!

As a celebration, I wanted to share my wins during this lockdown and inspire you. No matter what the situation is, you can make the best of it!

Personal wins

• 💍 I got engaged to Nicole!
• ✍️ I finally started my long-delayed tech blog.
• 👨‍💻 I managed to get a new job, Which I started on the 1st of October.
• 🐕 We got Yaatree and got her to Dog Manners 1 already.
• 💸 I managed to create an investment portfolio.
• 🤩 Made many new online and offline friends.
• 🧗‍♂️ We went on many exciting hikes!
• 🏃‍♂️ Ran 145,3KM, Follow me on Strava.
• 🇿🇦 Launched a Discord for South African Developers

Blog wins

• 🥳 This is my 200th article!
• 🔑 I wrote every single day.
• 💌 234 people subscribed to my mailing list!
• 🕵️‍♂️ 17,293 Users, with 32,718 Pageviews!
• 🐦 1829 Followers on Twitter
• 📸 627 Followers on Instagram

How did you do it?

I get asked regularly how I get to such consistency, how I come up with articles, etc.

Keep an eye out for tomorrow's article, subscribe to my newsletter to not miss it!

Check out this article on the secret to my writing process.

Top 10 Articles as of today

1. Vanilla JavaScript Modal Pop-up
2. Goodbye comments, welcome Webmentions 🙋🏼‍♂️
3. Top 10 Chrome extensions for developers 👀
4. I made my website 28ms faster with content-visibility 🤓
5. Vanilla JavaScript event listener on Multiple elements
6. Vanilla JavaScript Drag n Drop
7. 🛑 Stop using pixels in CSS
8. CSS Flip Cards
9. 5 full-stack projects to add to your portfolio before 2020 ends 🤯
10. Meet Monica Lent, a self-employed software engineer

Thank you

From the bottom of my heart, thank you all for reading my articles, subscribing to my newsletter, sharing my content.

I will keep posting content and hope to inspire you.

And please stay safe, people!