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Apple's Mail Privacy Protection is a necessary step that helps small publishers

Click rate is the way to measure engagement because it aligns the incentives of the reader (they want to check out something interesting) with the sender (provide interesting content). You get privacy as part of that.

Console Culture: Considered discussion

There’s a reason why scientific peer-review and RFCs are important - ideas are improved through debate and disagreement!

Status update - 2021-05

Console status update - May 2021: Newsletter design, welcome email, hiring a technical writer.

Console Culture: Simplicity

Following the Unix philosophy, we should do only what is absolutely necessary, and do it well.

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

How our editorial process works

Console aims to become the place developers go to find the best tools. Each week we select a handful of tools and beta releases to share with our subscribers in the Console weekly newsletter. Here is an overview of how we decide what makes the final edit each week.

Console Culture: Transparency

Our first Culture blog post covered our Prime Directive: developer first. This blog post explains the second: transparency. Following the hacker ethic, at Console open access is the default.

Status update - 2021-04

Console status update - Apr 2021: Beta Console, developer interviews, and newsletter tweaks.

Console Culture: Developer first

Developer first means aiming to create a high-quality experience for developers as the Prime Directive for everything we do. It's one of our four cultural values.

Introducing Beta Console

Discover the latest developer tool betas and early access releases with Beta Console.

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.

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