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Bye Bye 2020 Review of Running Medium in the Second Year
Late, Later, and Latest: The 2020 Review
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Image from the 2020 iOS Developer service unit — StreetVoice — Simple Life Festival official poster
A Difficult Year
Unrelated to work, 2020 was a tough year for me; I went through many major setbacks, but fortunately, I got through them all.
I just want to say one thing:
People need to learn to cherish the present and appreciate what they have.
Work
Back to work, in 2020 I stepped out of my comfort zone into a new environment; this exposed me to many new experiences and allowed me to absorb a lot of valuable knowledge in iOS and engineering development. Although the number of articles I wrote in 2020 was less than before, and I even stopped updating for three to four months, I focused on quality over quantity. The fewer articles I wrote in 2020 actually performed better than previous ones; I am gradually improving!
Additionally, last year I created a personal website using Google Sites and continuously sync new Medium articles there.
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Original Intention
I am still myself—I am a lazy person; I don’t write articles just for the sake of writing. Each article is based on some insights I have developed and then immediately recorded. If I get lazy and don’t do it all at once, I probably won’t bother going back to write it later (though this usually happens only with unimportant or uninteresting topics).
The downside is that sometimes I get too eager and write too fast. Typos are minor, but if the content is wrong or incomplete and misleads readers, that’s truly a sin. Orz; so this year, when writing articles, I will research and address all the issues I can think of and handle, even if they weren’t used in the original project. If something can’t be resolved, I’ll leave a note to remind readers to pay attention to that aspect.
Chrome Extensions Used for Writing Articles
- Recommend again Code Medium This lets you directly use Gist to embed beautiful code within Medium!
After installation, click the “+” on Medium, then select the last option “<>”
At this point, the screen will split into left and right sections, allowing you to enter code directly on the right side:
After submission, it will be directly embedded as a gist in the Medium article:
The advantage of using gist to embed code is that it supports syntax highlighting, making it easier for readers to read; the downside is that when converting Medium articles to markdown format, the embedded code cannot be automatically converted and must be manually copied and pasted.
- I have tried many conversion tools, but none support gist extraction. If anyone knows, please kindly share.
- Medium’s built-in code blocks still do not support syntax highlighting, so this is the best we can do.
- Medium Next Generation Stats: Enhanced Medium backend statistics display
Daily traffic aggregation display lets you see today’s traffic article composition at a glance.
There are also features for tracking new followers, claps, and more.
Goals for This Year
Backup Plan
Besides continuing to write, I plan to find time to convert each article into Markdown format and upload them to Github for backup, in case Medium suddenly crashes one day… Currently, I am using the Typora editor; it’s quite user-friendly. I’ll introduce it later!
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The current progress is about 15%. Feeling a bit lazy because it’s boring, haha.
The official Medium backup download only saves plain text; images remain externally linked and are not downloaded. Moreover, code sections are embedded and cannot be directly displayed in Markdown.
Independent Domain
It has been deployed. Please refer to “Medium Custom Domain Feature Returns”.
- Profile page: blog.zhgchg.li (I only use the subdomain
blog.zhgchg.libecause the main domain serves other purposes)
However, I found it affects Google SEO, so I am still considering and testing whether to actually use it.
Buy Me A Coffee!
Recently, the following services have also been launched:
Anyway, I have a lot of free time.
Statistics
Finally, let’s do some statistics!
In 2020, a total of:
16 articles were published: 3 lifestyle + 2 unboxing + 11 technical articles
Total site accumulation until 2021/02/24:
Total article views: 180,000 (2x growth)
Total article claps: 11,000 times (100% growth)
Followers: Surpassed 400 (100% growth)
Articles with Better Performance Include:
iOS 14 Clipboard Data Theft Panic: The Dilemma Between Privacy and Convenience
Create a “Fake” Transparent Perspective iPhone Wallpaper Easily
Thank you all for your support and love in 2020. I will continue to work hard this year as well!
Your feedback is the driving force behind my writing!
ZhgChgLi, 2021/02/24.
If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to contact me.
This post was originally published on Medium (View original post), and automatically converted and synced by ZMediumToMarkdown.