Blog Development Update: LinkedIn, dev.to, SEO and Future Plans

Blog update, guys. Been working on it today and in the evenings the last few days. Got a ton of cool stuff done.

Distribution Automation

First, worked on distribution. Posts now automatically publish to my LinkedIn. So now you can subscribe there instead of Telegram or the site, if you want.

This was pretty straightforward. I expected it to be much harder, because Claude was telling horror stories about their expensive paid API costing $2000 a month. Actually no, but maybe it just helped that I have the Respawn organization. I simply created a new LinkedIn app and connected it to the Respawn organization - and that’s it. I immediately got all the necessary access. Maybe if you don’t have an organization to connect the app to, it’ll be harder. I’ll never hit the limits they have there, apparently. Seems like Claude has outdated information.

Second source I made - dev.to. I don’t hang out on this site at all and don’t really know it, but they say there’s tons of development content there - an English-language Habr. So I’m only publishing English versions of my development articles there. This is all automated too, literally 20 lines of code.

Technical Improvements

What else I did:

• Fixed formatting, removed extra characters
• Fixed the prompt so it generates better TL;DR and titles
• Fixed styles, redirects, increased speed
• Added animations to the site
• Added a nice template for emails
• Added text sanitization

There were issues with images, but since I haven’t posted a single post with an image yet, it wasn’t noticeable in Telegram, and in LinkedIn either. Unfortunately, it won’t be possible to show images in such posts on platforms, because they’re all hosted on my CDN.

Surprisingly, Telegram has poor formatting support - there’s nothing like normal HTML there. Had to cut it down to a minimum and use some lib for formatting content for Telegram. No big deal, main thing is it works. Not much there to break anyway. But I’m not even going to say anything about LinkedIn, where formatting literally doesn’t exist. None whatsoever. And this is after so many years. No words guys.

Fixed the mobile version - now you can read it normally even on a phone.

SEO and Social Media

Added a banner and all kinds of cool SEO and social media features:

• Rich preview
• Nice cards that appear when I publish a link to a post
• Robots.txt and sitemap for search optimization

In general, now my content can be found in search too. Since I already took on optimizing content distribution, search is included here as well.

Hashtags and Future Plans

Posts are published in full everywhere, if possible and if the post fits. And if it doesn’t fit - then with a link and with hashtags.

People can now find posts by hashtags. I was always too lazy, I tried using hashtags before, but I was super lazy about writing them for each post. But here even in Telegram you can now search globally by hashtags, and people will be able to find my content. Not to mention other platforms.

Very happy with how it’s turning out. I don’t know about you, but I think it’s cool.

Next I’ll build integration with Reddit and possibly with Twitter. And I’ll have tweets for each post too.