David Mytton

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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.

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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.

Status update - 2021-03

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

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.

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.

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.

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