Great guide! A few things I'd add, after starting my own blog https://developerwithacat.com in Feb:

- it's okay if you don't follow all of the advice; just do whatever you feel like doing, otherwise you'll make it a chore and you won't end up publishing

- Reddit's a great place to have conversations, but be prepared for many negative ones

- if you want to have readers, you need to account for the time you spend sharing your post and engaging with commenters. I might not publish a post this month, just because I had to spend time talking to people about a post I made on Cloudflare pay-per-crawl viability that turned quite popular.

- use AI LLMs to talk about how you feel and should reply to hostile comments. It's helped my mental health a ton.