I started blogging about 12 years ago as a way to gain some visibility for my skills within my field, data journalism. One post I wrote, which simply explained how to set up Python on Windows 7, somehow got indexed very high in Google search results and ended up generating hundreds of thousands of page views. More interestingly, most of the comments on the post were very complimentary of my ability to simply explain the topic.

That got me thinking: Why not write a whole book about a tech topic I enjoy? So, I started doing that. It took about seven years, but the positive feedback from my blogging gave me inspiration.

https://nostarch.com/practical-sql-2nd-edition