It has been around 6 months since I started to blog a lot.

I followed the calls from Gabor Szabo, Joel Berger and Dave Cross then on top I added mine

My intention was clearly to setup a "Perl blogging scene" on devto and I feel like it works, see #Perl and numbers from perlweekly:

The number of blog posts does not decreased on BPO (it was not the goal, I want more posts, not less!) but the number of posts on DevTo increased lot yeah !
It reached a minimum steady number that make it a viable place to monitor for posts :) (and to make people join and contribute)

It's a teamwork and I do not deserve much credits, but I did a pretty decent effort (more than 50 blog posts in 6 months):

Will I blog as much for the coming 6 months? Probably not, but I have to say that blogging is very rewarding since I have the feeling to show Perl in a nice way and I have a lot of interactions with great people (comments ).

It also helps me practice the "art of writing", help me to dig deeper in some areas and suddenly there are so much great blog posts from Perl figures all around!
@mjgardner @leontimmermans @kraih @davorg @ovid @haarg @tobyink
(I wanted to put more names but there is a limit on how many people I can mention)

These people are often more successful than me (I have to admit that they produce better blog posts ), Ovid had an immediate huge success with Perl-but-generalist posts, that's crazy!

Hits

Back to me, my biggest hit is not Perl related but about how a user triggered a crypto miner in my github action through a malicious pull request, if you're interested in github actions and security, check it out.

My other hits (could we really talk about hits? ) are around the topic of Perl and blogging: A call to Perl bloggers to come on DevTo or To help Perl, just blog

Or around Perl reputation like A Perl love letter or The hate of Perl in memes

I also made books reviews that I wrote also as a kind of "personal notes". The list of reviews is here

Mojolicious related posts are always well received! Like for instance this Simple live chart using mojolicious

In between I wrote a lot of posts about toolchain/(Meta)CPAN:

• A tour of perl github actions
• Browse CPAN modules per namespace
• My GitHub action to upload to CPAN
• CPAN utils
• #AdoptAPerlModule
• SVG CPAN logo
• Install CPAN modules from different sources

And do you read my first post?

Failures

To be honest there are also some failures that I consider even more interesting to link

My parallel between Perl devs and Mandalorians was cool but a bit weird for readers (but I get some very kind likes)

I am proud of my serie about JAPHs (what a "risky" topic) but the 2 first episodes JAPHs autopsies 1 and JAPHs autopsies 2 were almost totally ignored.

My posts in French never worked but I continued to post them anyway like Book review "Perl pour l'impatient" or this terrible absolutely-no-like Critique de livre : Gimp 2.10 - Special debutants

Aside from Perl, I published some posts about docker (1, 2) or security (Billions laughs attack)

(I'm kidding with "failures" but it is not, I'm not writing for likes)

Conclusion

As I said in my call, I'm more a blog reader than a writer, so I'm very eager to read your posts!

So please dear reader, unleash the writer living in you!