Christopher Kade

Posted on Oct 29, 2019

Celebrating my 10 000th follower on DEV 🎉

#meta #writing

Alright, I know these posts are annoying but I just wanted to express how great this platform is & thank everyone for making it grow so much week after week.

I've been able to improve on my technical writing skills & share some things I'm passionate about. Here are some people I look up to, motivating me to improve post after post, either because they teach a whole lot or because they have a positive influence on our community:

Ali Spittel

Passionate about education, Python, JavaScript, and code art.

[Deleted User]

Ben Halpern

A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny.

Samantha Ming

Frontend Developer sharing weekly JS, HTML, CSS code tidbits 🔥Discover them all on samanthaming.com 💛

Charlie Gerard

I am a senior developer advocate, passionate about creative coding and building interactive prototypes mixing science, art & technology. I also spend time mentoring, contributing to OSS and speaking.

John Papa

Husband, father, & Catholic enjoying life with my family. Working @ Microsoft. Disney fanatic, web and mobile developer

Lastly, allow me to list some of my favorite articles I wrote in the last 2 years ❤️

First off, my latest piece about features to look forward to in Javascript:

The future of Javascript - features to keep an eye on

Christopher Kade ・ Oct 24 '19

#javascript #webdev #beginners

Thanks to you, I now have an amazing list of tools I use on a weekly basis:

What's one resource most devs don't know that you use regularly?

Christopher Kade ・ Jun 4 '19

#discuss #webdev #productivity #beginners

One of my most successful articles, about something I was afraid of just a few years ago:

Up your Git game and clean up your history

Christopher Kade ・ Jun 18 '19

#webdev #tutorial #git #beginners

Some tips on improving how we write components:

Tips to write elegant and resilient components

Christopher Kade ・ Aug 8 '19

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #beginners

And my very first article on this platform, it's NOT good but I'm glad it started there:

Defining quality requirements for a project

Christopher Kade ・ Jan 30 '18

#requirements #agile

Thanks again ❤️

Top comments (11)

AlbertoM • Oct 29 '19

Congrats! I think more impressive than the 10k followers are your 4.5k reactions with just 20 posts. That's a very good metric to indicate the value your brought to the platform.

Christopher Kade • Oct 29 '19

Thank you so much Alberto ! You're really kind to say that 😄

K • Oct 30 '19

Followers are mostly a vanity metric, but I like to watch them rise too, haha. 😂

Christopher Kade • Oct 31 '19 • Edited

As much as I appreciate your point of view I have to say you're reading too much into this.

I agree that writing for likes & follows is a bad habit and leads to click-bait articles & a lesser quality, but refusing to show how well your articles did isn't a solution: I want to know if the hours / days I spent writing something paid off by having it be read by as many as possible. It's common sense to me and I don't think imposing your solution to everyone is healthy nor fair.

This is more about celebrating people I appreciate and thanking everyone, and if this bunch of "pixels and bytes" annoys you, then you can always scroll further and avoid it. It shouldn't ruffle your feathers so much.

Again, thanks for the input, I'm sure others share your point of view, but I find it a little unfair.