const veryCoolDev = new VeryCool({ tld: "dev" })

Glad you made it over the fold, there is still some introductioning left to be done. Hi, I am Daniel Dunderfelt, the creator and first contributor of verycool.dev. I am a full-stack web developer by trade, mostly working in the realm of Javascript, React and Node. To keep my skills sharp and up to date, I'm constantly on the lookout for the next cool thing. Instead of just keeping it to myself, I thought that it would be very cool to collect all the very cool things I come across in a blog. It might even make me search out and try even more things in to write about, so here we are!

If Javascript is not your jam, fear not, as verycool.dev will by no means only have content about Javascript. I aim for a broad mix of general (but always very cool) programming topics that would interest developers of any kind. Granted, I do have a bias towards Javascript myself and featured libraries will probably be mostly Javascript, but I have two remedies for that: 1. personal interest in broadening my horizons and looking at new languages, and 2. let's just say I don't want to write alone forever.

Okay, I could have said that second part better: I want to hire more people to write for verycool.dev! I do not intend this to be "Daniel's blog". If you are interested, send me a message at editor@verycool.dev and tell me a bit about yourself and what you would like to write about. And I'm not talking about an unpaid gig either! As soon as I figure out some nice monetization strategies and we get some traffic flowing, all writers will be paid writers.

About that monetization: verycool.dev is a sideproject of mine for now, but that doesn't mean I don't want to get paid for my work. As I said above I also want other people to write for verycool.dev and I don't expect anyone to do it for free! So some kind of monetization will be added at some point in the form of ads, crowdfunding/donations and sponsored content. It is important to me that your privacy is respected, so no form of monetization on verycool.dev will ever spy on you or track you. I want ads that target the content of this site rather than you, and any sponsored content will be loudly and proudly marked as such.

This is just the beginning of verycool.dev, and also the VERY COOL network in general. Apart from this site, it already includes verycool.tech which is all about technology and gadgets, and honorary member danieldunderfelt.com which is the "Daniel's blog" that verycool.dev isn't.

I would be really interested in hearing what you (yes, YOU) think about all this, so shoot me an email at editor@verycool.dev or tweet me at ddunderfelt if you have any thoughts you want to share.

See you in the next article!