The Anti-Hustle Guide to Technical Blogging

I didn’t start blogging to build a personal brand. I started because I was tired of losing my scripts to solve the same SQL Server problems over and over again. Over the years, I’ve blogged in fits and starts, taken long breaks, changed platforms more than once, and somehow ended up with 500+ posts anyway. Along the way, blogging became one of the most reliable ways I’ve grown my career: showing how I learn, how I solve problems, and how I share what I figure out.

In this session, I’ll share what’s worked, what hasn’t, and why useful beats polished every time. I’ll also describe how I use GitHub and coding tools, including AI, to reduce friction. These tools help me edit, format, fact-check, and manage ideas, so writing doesn’t feel like a second job.

You’ll leave with concrete ideas for what to write about, low-pressure ways to get started (or restart), and practical workflows that make blogging feel doable instead of overwhelming. The goal isn’t consistency or perfection, it’s capturing what you learn, using writing to learn more, and creating something that quietly supports your career over time.