First 1000-view post for my newsletter
I've been working on my newsletter for 2 months, and my newsletter post from yesterday was the first to reach 1000 views!
My goal has been to make the Money Stuff for software engineering (where I explain current events in the tech industry through the lens of a software engineer).
So far, I have come to the following conclusion about what people want to read, from most-important to least-important:
Non-political current events in the tech industry, reinterpreted from the bottom-up perspective of a software engineer.
Explaining how company dynamics lead to insane-sounding decisions or unforced errors.
Straightforward news pieces.
Politics. It's going to be extremely important this year, but people don't want to read it. Or maybe I'm bad at writing it.
Naturally, sharing it widely was really important. This was the first piece I wrote that seemed reasonable to share on Reddit AND Hacker News AND LinkedIn. Here was the post that hit 1000 views: https://www.clientserver.dev/p/create-react-app-is-a-zombie-application
