When I wrote my own newsletter email service, I used SendGrid to handle the nitty gritty details of actually sending the emails. If I tried to roll my own email server, I would have to deal with so much nuance around security, spam, and other…
Continue reading...Recently, my wife was visiting Canada when she pulled out Ye Olde Facebook for a quick doome scrolle and happened upon some blocked content. Obviously, my wife respected the censorship, didn't give it any further attention, and moved on with her day. Just kidding! She…
Continue reading...I know that when I connect to the internet via my residential ISP, my public-facing IP address is dynamic and not static. But how often does it actually change? It's never hindered my day-to-day, so I don't know. Some people complain it happens too frequently.
Continue reading...I've made a few different toys with LLMs like And every single time, it's been a pain in the ass to embed them in these posts on my site. Since I use Publii to put this site together, everything is static and it comes packaged…
Continue reading...I wrote a whole post about setting up free newsletters for your website but it was all a lie. Sure, after your free trial runs out, you can still technically send newsletters for free. Manually. Painfully. All these newsletter-management companies paywall the one vital feature I…
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