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Just a Blogging Platform: My Medium Journey
From curious student to treating it as my own blog
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Twelve years ago, in August 2012, Medium launched as yet another blogging platform — but what really stood out was its clean, distraction-free editor. Compared to the clunky interfaces of WordPress and Blogger back then, writing on Medium felt like a breath of fresh air. Static site generators like Jekyll existed, but the Jamstack and headless CMS world? That was still a dream.
I was a student when Medium debuted — I’d read a few posts but didn’t join until 2015. By then I’d graduated (2014) and landed my first freelance gig, which got me seriously thinking about my online presence. A couple of months later, I started working remotely for companies. The rest, as they say, is history.
First Steps
My very first post was a simple “Hello Medium.” Soon after, publications arrived, so I created my own and even linked a custom domain. For early adopters, Medium let us keep that domain even when the feature was briefly removed — nice of them. (It’s back now…
