Agreed. But you have to know what compelling content is for that niche. Basically ask yourself the question "why would anyone follow my blog when there are 1000's of blogs for programmers?".
A few random comments:
- In general, I find your posts are too short and not in-depth enough (although that might be personal preference). There are too many titles, paragraphs are very small. When I scan it, my brain goes "um, it's not worth to read something of 2 lines long."
- the blog post title size is the same as the section title size, making it harder to scan the article.
- adding images/video would increase engagement
- write lists "10 reasons you should choose Git".
- SEO friendliness: http://rawsyntax.com/post/6384354589/why-i-love-git should be http://rawsyntax.com/why-i-love-git
- if you're looking for Search engine traffic, write about what people are looking for: "git tutorial", "best git gui" etc. It might pay off to do some keyword research to find what people are looking for.
- follow relevant people (e.g people who blog about git) and retweets them, when you have something of quality send them a PM about it
But, getting traffic for your blog is hard. There are just so many good blogs out there. Find your voice, and do the work :-)