How I'm Optimizing My Small Blog to Get Cited by AI (Based on Actual Research)
AI ate my traffic. Then I found a study of 18,000 pages that shows what actually gets cited.
Topic
blogging
A collection of 5 issues
You’re Not the First. You Won’t Be the Last. But We Survive
A WeCoded 2025 Story.
I didn’t grow up dreaming of being in tech - it just happened, one decision at a time.
I was born in a provincial city in Belarus in a family of an engineer and an economist. We lived in a marginal neighborhood - not in complete poverty,
Who Wins Dev.to Challenges? (And The Hidden Benefits No One Talks About)
At the beginning of this year I made a decision - I was going to participate in every Dev.to challenge. Well, almost every challenge. Let’s be honest, frontend isn’t my thing, so I happily skipped those. But everything else? Fair game.
Why? Because after writing on Dev.to
Goodbye Netlify, Hello Ghost: My Blog's New Home
In October 2021, I published my first blog post on Medium: Pub/Sub to BigQuery: How to Build a Data Pipeline Using Dataflow, Apache Beam, and Java. The feedback I received was incredible, and it motivated me—I wanted a personal blog, a space where I could share my thoughts
Who’s Really Following You on Dev.to? A Guide to Analyzing Your Audience
The reason I’m writing this post is to shed some light on an aspect of Dev.to that many of us don’t think twice about: our followers. We put so much effort into creating content, hoping it resonates with readers and builds our community, but have you ever