TL;DR: Join this Google Group to get my blog updates via email.

My blog is over 25 years old. At first, people had to visit it to read it. Then I added an RSS feeds. Then email subscriptions. Then via social media, cross-posting on Twitter, now LinkedIn.

The RSS feed remains. But I feel it’s time to bring back email subscriptions. It’s the oldest of the technologies, the most robust, and the one I believe will last the longest.

My blog might last another 25 years. I’m willing to bet email will outlast RSS and certainly the social media platforms.

So, I’ve created a Google Group: [email protected] where I will post new blog entries. You can join the group to get email updates whenever I post something new.

For now, I will post updates manually. After a few weeks of testing, I’ll automate the process.

PS: I use a htmlemail.py script to send blog posts as HTML emails via the GMail API. It was vibe-coded by Claude and taught me a few things:

  • The frontmatter package is a clean way to parse YAML frontmatter from markdown files.
  • LLMs aren’t familiar enough with the markdown2 package, which is the new standard for processing Markdown. They prefer markdown instead.
  • premailer is a well-maintained package to inline CSS for HTML emails.
  • pygments is the de facto standard to generate CSS for syntax highlighting code blocks.