Side Effects of a Year of Blogging
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Creates and publishes 12 monthly posts and a personal site using R and Posit products with Hugo + GitHub + Netlify, learning Git and web deployment by doing. Claims the blog builds a visible skills profile, helps pivot from education into analytics engineering, and accelerates generative data art practice. Reports modest readership but concrete payoffs: résumé-ready examples, interview talking points, people sharing posts, and sustained habit formation that proves the cadence and stack actually work.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Overcoming personal hurdles
- 1:40Finding a community
- 3:36Defining the challenge
- 5:54Building the brand
- 7:52Curating content
- 10:59Technical implementation
- 13:06Transitioning to contributor
- 14:38Audience Q&A
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