First Newsletter Out

After sitting on it for months I finally took some time to finish up my first newsletter.

I started this experiment primarily to share links on my blog/email instead of on facebook/twitter, as facebook and twitter are very good at losing them (this is not how you scale guys!) and to give myself more control.

I usually read articles on Instapaper, so most of my work was predone, I liked the links I considered for adding it over there, and added them in the html one time before sending the newsletter. It is still a bit more work than I like, editing HTML by hand. The structure I have is quite templatized, and I guess I will be writing a few scripts to make this easier.

The very first attempt all ended in SPAM folder due to some stupidity mailchimp did. I hate their click tracking, which I can not disable in the free version, hate my clean URL getting clobbered.

I am not sure if I will be sticking to weekly frequency or not, but it feels the most reasonable as of now. I guess some weeks may be longer than others if I am upto something else.

It is still not conversational as I initially thought, lets see.