This is a quick note to let you know that I’ve moved the newsletter to a new platform via a tedious intermediary stage —but more on that in the first (new) newsletter.
You’ll note a couple of things are a little different. Firstly, the newsletter is sent from a new site that I set up to consolidate all my writing and other thoughts in one place. I’d love it if you took a look: https://matthewcowen.org.
Future posts will be categorised as follows: A 📅 emoji denotes blog posts and short from comments, and these will not be sent out in the newsletter. The 🗞️ emoji will indicate the newsletter items. If you want to read past newsletters, there are two ways to do that. One is to go to the search and search the 🗞️ emoji or search for a keyword or phrase connected with the subject. The other is to click the Archive link and then choose the Newsletter category, where all past and new issues are archived.
Also, please keep in mind that emails will be sent from matthewcowen@hello.micro.blog. If you don’t see them, check your spam and add that address to your contact list, although you shouldn’t need to do anything on your part if all goes well.
Secondly, the look and feel of the newsletter has changed as a different platform has different ways of doing things. Below is a test newsletter so you can recognise the real one coming soon:
Coming soon means in February. Some of the reasons I chose micro.blog was to continue control of the newsletter, support an independent developer and the ideals behind that, and thereby ensure I didn’t leave one Nazi bar and walk into another, and that means adhering to a pretty decent anti-spam policy which prevents me from sending a newsletter until I have gained a level of trust with the platform. I’m ok with that and happy to wait. The first official newsletter I’ll be able to send will be in early February. I’ve written most of it already and will update it before sending it out.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
/committedtodisk