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    <p>I decided to create this blog about the creation of the blog today, this way I could experience actual “blogging” instead of website building.</p>
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    <p>I’m not sure what I want this blog to be, I really don’t want this to be another leetcode solutions blog, but it’s on that path since that’s what my friends request and those posts seem to get traffic (maybe I’m just better at promoting them and haven’t tried enough with others?). Ideally, I’d like to be creating cool stuff, giving the advice (that I wish I’d gotten) to early career software engineers, and helping people learn fundamentals that I see lacking so often (even in myself sometimes- I still have to review that one binary search article from time to time and have trouble with certain problems that should bee simple by now). I’d love to review STEM toys like osmo and little bits to see which ones are the best and help people educate their kids too.</p>
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    <p>Eventually, I’d even like to track my journey through learning copywriting (unrelated to programming, but I want to learn about marketing - maybe it wouldn’t fit here?) or learning datascience.</p>
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    <p>I’m kind of regretting naming this blog fizzbuzzed. Google asks, “Did you mean fizzbuzz?” when i type it in. I’m going to have to find a way around that or rename this. What could be a better name, CodeMinion?</p>
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    <p>I came up with a plan for the blog today:</p>
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<div class="highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>Acquire people:
1. Doing interviews:
   - leetcode, comments on other interviewing blogs and fb groups with interview solutions, systems design info you can't find elsewhere.

 2. Learning to code:
   - "Writing my first app" and posting on sites where ppl are trying to learn to code apps or thinking about it.
   - "intro guide to recursion - 0 to grok' - recursion seems to be the most often missing fundamental.
   - learning data science ( i go through data science coursera and make interesting visualizations to post to r/dataisbeautiful which is somehow one of top subs)

3. Exploring careers or thinking about CS:
  - interview with a pm,
  - interview with a security engineer
  - interview with an SET
  - interview with an SRE
  - interview with an iOS engineer

4. Parents of kids that are good at code or want to learn:
  - "how to teach your kid coding"
  - "why coding is the best skill to give your child"

5. Early in their software career:
	- CS websites, remarket to leetcoders

Then, sell:
1. Systems design interview course (self made)
2. Learn to code courses (affiliate don't want to build but have to find good ones)
3. Kid STEM toys (Affiliate but have to identify good ones)
4. Products for new engineers (clean code, design pattern books, ergonomics, credit card offers)
</code></pre></div></div>

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    <p>I’m thinking of using a public trello board and the trello api or firebase RTDB to let users who come to the site see or vote on what the articles should be.</p>
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    <p>I experienced my first instance of using Google analytics to improve my site yesterday. I noticed people coming from leetcode to the 3sum solutions post were bouncing almost all the time. I changed the link to link to an anchor at the correct solution instead of the top of the article and the bounce rate was down and the session time up (people started reading the page).</p>
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    <p>Maybe if I arrange the solutions with a ‘table of contents’ and add some ‘hints’ they will be much more useful to readers?Similar to how I complain about not being able to jump to the correct piece of most youtube videos readers probably want to jump around my article to only the parts they are interested in.</p>
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