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Michael Lynch, a software blogger, provides examples of his own successful posts and suggests strategies for promoting articles on platforms like Hacker News and Reddit.

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I use all of these on freek.dev as well :-)

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Bram has been running his excellent blog for 20 years now. Bram.us was the blog that inspired me to start with a blog of my own.

Highly recommend to check it every once in a while if you're into webdev (which I guess you are since you're reading this on freek.dev).

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Interesting read for the bloggers amongst us.

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A few weeks ago, my colleague Seb added webmentions to his blog.

I first noticed webmentions in the wild on Hidde de Vries’ blog about two years ago. Last week it finally happened, I added webmention support to my blog too! Well, partial support at least. I’m now receiving and displaying webmentions. Sending them out is a project for another day.

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A while ago Povilas Korop, creator of and writer at LaravelDaily, shared some interesting numbers on his blog.

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Brent shares a few tips on how your can interpret data from Analytics correctly.

I've been running this blog for almost three years now. I've used Google Analytics, not only to track the amount of users, but also to actively improve my blog. I'm no marketeer, just a simple developer. Today I want to share from my technical experience, how I use traffic data and react to it.

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4 years ago I started this blog as a tool to share interesting blogposts I found around the web. On each anniversary of my blog I published some interesting stats on the blog. This year is no different.

Between November 2017 and november 2018 this blog served 728 243 pages, a good increase compared to the 591 113 pageview from the previous period. There are 1 217 published posts, of which 195 I've written myself. The others ones are links to other blogs.

Last year in November I moved this blog from WordPress to a custom made Laravel app. A few months ago I removed the handcrafted admin section in favor of Laravel Nova. I'm really glad that I now have full control over my blog and not tied to WordPress anymore. I also opensourced the Laravel app. You can find the source code in this repo on GitHub.

These were the ten most visited posts of the past 12 months:

1. My current setup (2018 edition)
2. How to upgrade from PHP 7.1 to 7.2 on MacOS
3. Introducing our Nova packages
4. Handling CORS in a Laravel application
5. laravel-medialibrary v7 has been released
6. Breaking Laravel's firstOrCreate using race conditions
7. When empty is not empty
8. Doing less
9. A better way to register routes in Laravel
10. Using Content Security Policy headers in a Laravel app

I do hope you still enjoy reading this blog!

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Christopher Pitt has built his own new blog. Of course he uses lots of preprocessing goodness.

In fact, this whole blog is built on preprocessed code. Why? Because I want to see what I can build, using a technology that 99% of vocal PHP developers (read: people on Reddit and Twitter) scoff at. I want to show that preprocessing works well and is popular in other languages.

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Cristopher Rumpel recently launched a big redesign of his blog. In a new post he touches on why he moved away from his old solution, and what kind of problems he had to solved. Great read!

One of my resolutions for 2017 was to redesign my blog. One week before the new year I faced myself with the challenge and thought to myself if this was still doable. Somehow I managed it and here it is. In this article I will explain the process and show you how I redesigned the blog with Tailwind CSS and moved it from Jekyll to Laravel with keeping almost the same performance.

https://christoph-rumpel.com/2018/01/how-i-redesigned-my-blog-and-moved-it-from-jekyll-to-laravel

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Probably because I'm a heavy user of Laravel I read a lot of Laravel focused blogs and follow a lot people on Twitter who also are heavy users of the framework. But more than a Laravel developer, I consider myself a PHP developer first. One of the ways I try to stay in touch with what is happening in the larger PHP community is following this excellent link blog maintained by Chris Cornutt.

http://www.phpdeveloper.org/

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