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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about blogging — both the specifics of content (how to make great content), as well as the mechanics of where and how to publish blog posts. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Show Notes 7:06 - What are some of the different platforms for publishing a blog? 23:41 - How to structure a blog post? 29:10 - How to direct traffic to a blog post? 38:51 - How do you make technical content in-depth and also succinct? Links WordPress Gatsby Squarespace Netlify Tumblr Medium Hacker Noon Freedcamp Devtoo Smashing Magazine Net Magazine Gridsome GraphQL Vuepoint Next Nuxt Everything I wish I knew running a sole proprietorship business @peterc JavaScript Weekly Cooperpress Seth Godin Overreacted - Dan Abramov ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Business Wars Wes: Spectacular Failures Shameless Plugs Scott: Level Up Tutorials Pro — Subscribe before price goes up! Wes: All Courses — Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax. The podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready. Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.5	Welcome to Syntax. Today is the Taseous podcast about blogging. We got an awesome question in our potluck and it was super well thought out and I thought hey let's do an entire episode on this because I've got a lot to say about blogging I think blogging can be super beneficial to your career
0:27.4	So we're gonna dive into like sort of the the specifics of creating content and how to make good content as well as the mechanics of like where do you post it like what's the best platform for that how do you get traffic to it
0:40.8	today we are sponsored by two awesome companies. First one is Century. They're
0:45.0	going to do all of your error and exception tracking and the second one is
0:48.7	sanity which is going to give you a structured content CMS.
0:53.5	It's going to be the back end to your front end.
0:56.1	We'll talk about them part way through the episode
0:58.7	with me today.
0:59.6	And as always, is Scott Tolinsky.
1:01.6	How you doing today,? Hey doing good. Just
1:05.0	hanging out already talking about blocking. Yeah just I've been working on a lot of
1:09.6	fun projects lately just on my little spare time.
1:12.5	And it's been really nice because it's so funny
1:14.6	when you level up tutorials has always,
1:17.4	and it still is a fun project for me.
1:19.6	But like, the moment it becomes your job job,
1:22.4	it inherently becomes a little bit less fun.
1:25.2	So I've been working on some little fun side projects that actually are going to be pulled
1:29.6	back into level up at some point, but it does a nice little trick in my brain that makes me think it's a for fun project and I've been pretty into it.
1:38.6	So yeah, no, I'm just I'm in a good coding mind space right now and I'm ready to talk about some
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