David Mytton

From UK 23 Posts

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.