by Erin Baez | Aug 28, 2018 | Blogging Advice
Today on the blog, we’re featuring another one of our authors, T.J. Simmons. He was one of our very first authors to join our team, and because of his extensive knowledge and engaging writing style, he’s our go-to guy for data science posts. Some of his...
by Erik Dietrich | Aug 8, 2018 | Announcements
About a week ago, I made me some internet. More specifically, I went to my favorite hosting platform, SiteGround, bought a domain name, and spun up a WordPress instance. This all took about 15 minutes, and when I was done, we had makemeaprogrammer.com. Let me take a...
by Amanda Muledy | Jul 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Today, we’ve got something a little different on the blog. We’re featuring one of our first authors, who joined Hit Subscribe when it first formed. That author is Christian Meléndez. Christian’s specialties—DevOps, containers, and cloud...
by Kristin Rawlings | Jul 17, 2018 | Blogging Advice
When it comes to writing, a few gifted people are able to vomit the Sistine Chapel right onto the page. But if you’re anything like me, writing can be a long, tough process. And the thought of sharing it with someone? Don’t mind me…I’ll just be hiding under the bed....
by Erik Dietrich | Jun 26, 2018 | Blogging Advice
A Prussian officer by the name of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder once famously said, “No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.” Roughly a century later, Mike Tyson would appropriate this sentiment to “Everyone has a plan until they get...
by Erik Dietrich | May 11, 2018 | Blogging Advice
I’ve been a blogger now for more than seven years. And I have to say, it took me an embarrassingly long time to understand the true nature of the blog post title. My hope today is that you may learn from my folly. There Are Actually (At Least) Three Flavors of...
by Erik Dietrich | May 4, 2018 | Blogging Advice
SEO, SEO for techies, techies SEO, SEO in technical blogs, SEO in technical blogs not marketing, techie, techies, SEO… Oh, hi! I didn’t see you there. I was just stuffing this post with keywords in the first paragraph in order to trick Google into ranking...
by Erik Dietrich | Apr 26, 2018 | Blogging Advice
Hit Subscribe is a content agency, and a growing one at that. Don’t worry. This isn’t going to be a post about how great we think we are, which I’ve advised you not to write in the past. Our growth matters in this context because it’s made...
by Erik Dietrich | Apr 18, 2018 | Blogging Advice
Because I have some reach in the tech community and blogging is my thing, I find that people reach out to me somewhat regularly. This outreach takes all forms, but of particular interest today is people hoping that I’ll share some post they wrote. Almost...
by Amanda Muledy | Apr 10, 2018 | Blogging Advice
Maybe you’ve never heard of blank page syndrome. I mean, it’s a term I made up, so chances are pretty good it’s new to you. But you know what it is, I promise. It’s the feeling of opening up a WordPress draft or a new Word document (or pulling...
