A newsletter-shaped-blog, or a blog-shaped-newsletter
Both are words published online, but the method changes the medium
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Build a DIY email-to-SMS gateway
Carriers are removing their email-to-SMS gateways, but you can build your own instead.
Matthew Guay
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Email signatures and the power of defaults
Usenet set the signature rules. Then Hotmail broke them.
Matthew Guay
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- A newsletter-shaped-blog, or a blog-shaped-newsletterAugust 22, 2025
- Build a DIY email-to-SMS gatewayAugust 15, 2025
- Email signatures and the power of defaultsAugust 8, 2025
- What the hell is a Webmention?August 1, 2025
- How to return from a newsletter hiatus in styleJuly 29, 2025
- A plaintext subject line is all email has ever neededJuly 28, 2025
- The subtle art of email forensicsJuly 25, 2025
- Email's fingerprints are everywhere you lookJuly 17, 2025
- Creating newsletter webhooks for fun and profitJuly 10, 2025
- The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emailsJuly 3, 2025
- Gmail's shortcuts come from a 1976 keyboard layoutJune 26, 2025
- How email tracking works behind the scenesJune 13, 2025
- It's [always] a great time to build an email courseJune 6, 2025
- The legendary email client power users wouldn't let dieJune 3, 2025
- The non-scientific, non-scammy way to grow your newsletterJune 2, 2025
- You should have a can-do attitude about CAN-SPAMMay 30, 2025
- Best practices on pre-launch emailsMay 23, 2025
- Markdown is unformatted formattingMay 16, 2025
- E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paperMay 9, 2025
- Attachments helped email go globalMay 2, 2025
- This is not a newsletter accessibility checklistApril 25, 2025
- The community powered email newsletterApril 18, 2025
- AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive.April 11, 2025
- Email ideas to build hype for your first book launchApril 4, 2025
- On hacker wordplay and fossilized poetryMarch 28, 2025
- A brief history of all the times email was supposed to dieMarch 27, 2025
- How (and why) non-technical folks should learn to use an APIMarch 21, 2025
- StoryOrigin founder Evan Gow on how to grow an author newsletterMarch 5, 2025
- Using Typora as a custom Buttondown front-endFebruary 24, 2025
- How email came to beFebruary 18, 2025
- Write newsletters like an emailFebruary 12, 2025
- Your email list needs an inner circleFebruary 3, 2025
- The double opt-in storyJanuary 24, 2025
- A good publishing workflow is an escape hatchJanuary 20, 2025
- Developer marketing is show and tellJanuary 16, 2025
- What happens when you move your newsletterJanuary 10, 2025
- Short boughs, long vintage, and emailJanuary 7, 2025
- Portability is optionalityDecember 27, 2024
- One topic, for a limited time: the pop-up email newsletterDecember 6, 2024
- The principle of LIINovember 1, 2024
- Compliment your complementsOctober 21, 2024
- What's your newsletter's North Star?October 11, 2024
- Where to start with newsletter automationsSeptember 6, 2024
- Your first fifty subscribersAugust 30, 2024
- Every email your company needs to send, and how to send themAugust 23, 2024
- Start with a changelogAugust 16, 2024
- Send your next email newsletter from TerminalJuly 31, 2024
- Guest newsletters 101July 16, 2024
- How successful self-publishers share their excerptsJuly 5, 2024
- How Rosie Sherry builds communities around emailJune 28, 2024
- How to write DevRel emails that don't sound like marketingJune 24, 2024
- In praise of zinesJune 14, 2024
- How to build a culture of shippingJune 3, 2024
- Pace yourself!May 23, 2024
- My favorite newslettersMay 13, 2024
- How to start a clubApril 25, 2024
- How often should you send your newsletter?March 4, 2024
- What the hell is a lead magnet?February 21, 2024
- What you need to know about Gmail's new protectionsOctober 31, 2023
- The reply loopJune 22, 2023
- Ask the experts: How do I come up with content?June 20, 2023
- What can we learn from Google Domains?June 17, 2023
- What to charge for sponsorships on your newsletterMay 30, 2023
- Email length doesn't affect click rateMay 4, 2023
- Automatic image upload with Buttondown + TyporaMay 3, 2023
- What Murakami tells us about focusApril 13, 2023
- Netlify functions + ButtondownMarch 21, 2023
- Adding a Buttondown subscription form to WeeblyNovember 5, 2019
- Adding a Buttondown subscription form to SquarespaceOctober 24, 2019
- Adding a Buttondown subscription form to WebflowOctober 11, 2019
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