Hi, it’s Dieter. This is the third newsletter issue of things I do and things I find. Hope you find something interesting in here!
I’ve rewritten this short piece several times over the last few months – somehow it just never felt like the right moment to hit send. Then, after weeks or months had past, what I wrote down wasn’t accurate any longer and I had to redo the text. Well, I finally got to it and mustered the will to send this out. While I find a lot of charm in sending out emails in a regular mail client, it’s honestly pretty exhausting to sort out all the details of editing and processing into a consistent format. That said, existing popular options such as TinyLetter didn’t catch my fancy. This week I found a small service run by an independent developer called ButtonDown. It’s nearly identical to TinyLetter, but has some nice styling features and isn’t run by MailChimp. For the time being, I’m going to publish this newsletter to both this new service and to the existing emails here.