Notices by Buttondown (buttondown@mastodon.social)

G-G-G-G-G-GUEST POST!

Jon Sully, Typora aficionado, shares how to integrate it with Buttondown — and also acts as a bit of a backdoor pilot for "how to use the Buttondown API with ruby".

https://buttondown.com/blog/using-typora-as-a-custom-buttondown-frontend

@etp it is a forever game of cat and mouse, but right now the cat is winning!

What better way to spend a lovely Sunday than by, uh, reading a history of why we call it "mail merge"?

https://buttondown.com/blog/mail-merge-history

@matratype @onpaperwings @elliotjaystocks aw, i'm blushing! (and happy to answer any questions you have Pooja!)

"The content of a NWG (Network Working Group) note may be any thought, suggestion, etc. related to the HOST software or other aspect of the network.”

And with that, the RFC was born.

https://buttondown.com/blog/optimism-of-email

New analytic: pageviews by referrer!

https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-02-17

we are tired of manually emailing you about affiliate payouts. so our newest changelog entry is about making that easier.

https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-02-13

“The absolute most important trick, though, is: Be human,” says Friedman. “Write like a human. Write emails you wouldn’t mind reading. And respect your reader.”

https://buttondown.com/blog/write-newsletters-from-gmail

this and more in January's roundup:

https://newsletter.buttondown.com/archive/updates-from-january-9711/

https://mastodon.social/@angelo@social.droppedbits.com/113979951659194340

@reinier @gvenk 👀

An ode to the little-used format that everyone loves: the pop-up newsletter.

https://buttondown.com/blog/pop-up-newsletters

An ode to the little-used format that everyone loves: the pop-up newsletter.

https://buttondown.com/blog/pop-up-newsletters

Good morning. Consider starting your day by reading about ZINES.

https://buttondown.com/blog/zines

At long last, we have accomplished a professional goal: deputizing Homestar Runner and The West Wing in the same essay.

https://buttondown.com/blog/beta-newsletter-readers

🥳

What better way to end the month than by reading your favorite newsletter platform's latest changelog entry? [^1]

Hot off the presses — support for related emails! You can link folks to other issues in your back catalog!

https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-01-31

[^1]: please humor us

@rhazn if there are other things you'd find interesting, lmk!

did you know that we share every single other service we use to run Buttondown? and did you know that we published an update sharing what new stuff we started using (or stopped using) in the past year?

(well, now you do.)

https://buttondown.com/blog/updates-to-the-stack-2025

Changelogs and release notes have been with us for as long as we’ve been coding (or, at least, since 1971, say Oxford’s etymologists). They’re a record of truth that lists what’s old, what’s new, and how we got here.

https://buttondown.com/blog/changelog-newsletter

"Recovery days only work when they are unmovable and sacrosanct. Even if your legs feel fresh or you had an ingenious newsletter idea over breakfast, punt until tomorrow. Revel in the rest.."

https://buttondown.com/blog/pace-yourself

"When you go viral on TikTok, you have no guarantee that your next post will be seen by a single person. None. Live by the algorithm, die by the algorithm. With a newsletter, you can estimate with reasonable certainty how many people will receive your email."

https://buttondown.com/blog/emails-lindy-lifetime