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by 9dev 387 days ago
That’s an entirely different issue: people maintain a blog to improve their hireability, and that entails blogging about things that may not always be brilliant insights. It’s not this person's fault that that’s the state of tech hiring however. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
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Blogging is actually a good way for professionals to earn CEUs to maintain certifications.

Chances are, if you’re reading low-effort blog posts that are consistently in certain knowledge domains, they’re intending to apply for CEUs at renewal time.

Well looks like he had the last laugh on us: GitHub was down, so nobody with CI/CD GitHub Action deployment scripts could make a release unless they used AI or did it by hand!

https://www.githubstatus.com/

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I had no idea people could earn Continuing Education Units for blogging, but it's true: https://www.comptia.org/continuing-education/choose/renewing...