Issue #1: There's been a development
Hey there,
It's been a minute, eh? Well, I'm back, with a new edition of the newsletter.
Issue with links
In the "Day Zero" issue, there was a problem with broken links. The cause of this was some weird wonkiness between Buttondown (my newsletter provider), Mailgun (their email provider), and Cloudflare (my DNS provider). After a lot of digging, I reverted the custom domain I'd used to send out this newsletter and switched to Buttondown's domain. It's not ideal, but hey, at least no broken links this time!
Current Music: Apple Music
This week, I worked on a web widget that would display the last song I played on Apple Music. Check out this repo for details: https://github.com/rosnovsky/current-apple-music
The result of this work is below. This is, in fact, the last track I played on Apple Music. It is dynamic, meaning that you will see different tracks at different times. Right now, it's this one:
I've posted some juicy details here. Oh, and also Apple's developer docs suck, big time.
Comment notifications
Some more developments on my super popular website: I've added email notifications about new comments you folks post, as well as a notification for comments that you flag. For now, these notifications only work for me (you can't subscribe to the new comments), but this whole thing is set up in such a way that I only need to add a "Subscribe to comments" checkbox and we're good to go. I'll sum it up and post an update on the website.
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Cheers,
Art