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Why do we have an office?

Despite the current uncertainty of lockdowns our answer to "are you remote or office based?" is: "yes".

Status update - 2021-03

Console status update - Mar 2021: subscriber growth, Hacker News, developer interviews, and automating subscriber confirmations.

What we're doing that doesn't scale

Over the last few months at Console, we’ve been doing a lot of things that we won't be able to keep doing in the long term. While it is easy to question whether these tasks are the best use of our time, I know from experience that it is the right strategy.

Automatically building the web version of our email newsletter

How we built the dynamically generated, but still static HTML, "latest email" page that is automatically built from our Google Sheets content management backend.

Console Newsletter - A free weekly email digest of the best tools and beta releases for developers. Every Thursday. See the latest email.

Live subscriber count using an LED LaMetric

Building an HTTPS endpoint in Rust to show our Mailchimp subscriber count on an LED LaMetric device.

Status update - 2021-02

Console status update - Feb 2021: subscriber growth, paid ads, website build, blog theme and email templates, and our first developer Q&A interviews.

When computers had personality

From glass teletypes to the PC revolution, the terminals, consoles and computers that entered the market in 1970s and 80s are now being rediscovered by a younger generation of developers.

Picking a privacy-first analytics tool

After spending some time trying Cloudflare Web Analytics, then reviewing all the other privacy-first options, we ended up using Plausible Analytics. This post explains the reasons behind that decision.

Marketing with privacy-first principles (a personal reset)

The rising cost of advertising online, social media, and tracking across channels all helped to erode privacy. We're taking a different approach to our marketing at Console.