Building a static newsletter archive

I’ve been writing my newsletter for 9.5 years now. This thing has had the same format since 2017 and has really been my consistent “thing” through marriage, moving cross-country, a pandemic, having kids, changing companies, and so on. It’s definitely a labor of love. I’ve lost quite a bit of sleep on it over the years, but it’s important to me. It’s led to such cool connections between humans around the internet (Ten and David met this week after realizing they were both visiting Japan while answering the practice coding question!! How cool is that??), people getting jobs, authors getting amplified from their articles… I just really love this little space. My newsletter stack Anyway! I use Buttondown for hosting and sending the emails that I draft from Obsidian, and have been just linking to the Buttondown archive for previous issues. My subscription page… has basically stayed the same since 2017. It was a plain ol’ HTML page for most of that time, until I ported my (open source!) to…