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A newsletter-shaped-blog, or a blog-shaped-newsletter
Both are words published online, but the method changes the medium
Matthew Guay
August 22, 2025
Build a DIY email-to-SMS gateway
Carriers are removing their email-to-SMS gateways, but you can build your own instead.
Matthew Guay
August 15, 2025
Email signatures and the power of defaults
Usenet set the signature rules. Then Hotmail broke them.
Matthew Guay
August 8, 2025
- A newsletter-shaped-blog, or a blog-shaped-newsletterAugust 22, 2025
- Build a DIY email-to-SMS gatewayAugust 15, 2025
- Email signatures and the power of defaultsAugust 8, 2025
- What the hell is a Webmention?August 1, 2025
- How to return from a newsletter hiatus in styleJuly 29, 2025
- A plaintext subject line is all email has ever neededJuly 28, 2025
- The subtle art of email forensicsJuly 25, 2025
- Email's fingerprints are everywhere you lookJuly 17, 2025
- Creating newsletter webhooks for fun and profitJuly 10, 2025
- The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emailsJuly 3, 2025
- Gmail's shortcuts come from a 1976 keyboard layoutJune 26, 2025
- What you need to know about Orange's new email protectionsJune 24, 2025
- How email tracking works behind the scenesJune 13, 2025
- Announcing django-rq-cronJune 10, 2025
- rssrssrssrss (that is not a typo)June 9, 2025
- It's [always] a great time to build an email courseJune 6, 2025
- The legendary email client power users wouldn't let dieJune 3, 2025
- The non-scientific, non-scammy way to grow your newsletterJune 2, 2025
- You should have a can-do attitude about CAN-SPAMMay 30, 2025
- Best practices on pre-launch emailsMay 23, 2025
- Markdown is unformatted formattingMay 16, 2025
- E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paperMay 9, 2025
- Attachments helped email go globalMay 2, 2025
- This is not a newsletter accessibility checklistApril 25, 2025
- The community powered email newsletterApril 18, 2025
- AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive.April 11, 2025
- Email ideas to build hype for your first book launchApril 4, 2025
- On hacker wordplay and fossilized poetryMarch 28, 2025
- A brief history of all the times email was supposed to dieMarch 27, 2025
- How (and why) non-technical folks should learn to use an APIMarch 21, 2025
- StoryOrigin founder Evan Gow on how to grow an author newsletterMarch 5, 2025
- Using Typora as a custom Buttondown front-endFebruary 24, 2025
- How email came to beFebruary 18, 2025
- Write newsletters like an emailFebruary 12, 2025
- Mail merge started on a $10,000 IBM typewriterFebruary 7, 2025
- Your email list needs an inner circleFebruary 3, 2025
- The double opt-in storyJanuary 24, 2025
- A good publishing workflow is an escape hatchJanuary 20, 2025
- Developer marketing is show and tellJanuary 16, 2025
- 2025 pricing updateJanuary 12, 2025
- What happens when you move your newsletterJanuary 10, 2025
- Changes to our stack in 2025January 9, 2025
- Short boughs, long vintage, and emailJanuary 7, 2025
- 2024 (and what's next)December 28, 2024
- Portability is optionalityDecember 27, 2024
- One topic, for a limited time: the pop-up email newsletterDecember 6, 2024
- The principle of LIINovember 1, 2024
- Compliment your complementsOctober 21, 2024
- What's your newsletter's North Star?October 11, 2024
- Our new Open Source Funding PledgeSeptember 18, 2024
- Where to start with newsletter automationsSeptember 6, 2024
- Your first fifty subscribersAugust 30, 2024
- Every email your company needs to send, and how to send themAugust 23, 2024
- Start with a changelogAugust 16, 2024
- Send your next email newsletter from TerminalJuly 31, 2024
- Guest newsletters 101July 16, 2024
- How successful self-publishers share their excerptsJuly 5, 2024
- How Rosie Sherry builds communities around emailJune 28, 2024
- How to write DevRel emails that don't sound like marketingJune 24, 2024
- In praise of zinesJune 14, 2024
- Open-sourcing our footnotes editorJune 4, 2024
- How to build a culture of shippingJune 3, 2024
- Pace yourself!May 23, 2024
- My favorite newslettersMay 13, 2024
- How we built Buttondown's new docsMay 6, 2024
- How to start a clubApril 25, 2024
- We're sponsoring PyConApril 15, 2024
- Changes to our stack in 2024March 28, 2024
- How often should you send your newsletter?March 4, 2024
- What the hell is a lead magnet?February 21, 2024
- Dear Tinyletter UsersNovember 29, 2023
- 2023 (and what's next)November 28, 2023
- Black Friday / Cyber Monday pricesNovember 17, 2023
- How we keep deliverability highNovember 2, 2023
- What you need to know about Gmail's new protectionsOctober 31, 2023
- Dear Mailchimp UsersOctober 20, 2023
- sniperl.ink, our free tool for improving subscription rateOctober 6, 2023
- Support for Stripe Payment LinksSeptember 9, 2023
- How Buttondown uses your content to power generative AIAugust 30, 2023
- Announcing django-typescript-routesAugust 23, 2023
- Buttondown pledges $5,000 to OutreachyJuly 11, 2023
- You should add SSOJuly 4, 2023
- The reply loopJune 22, 2023
- Ask the experts: How do I come up with content?June 20, 2023
- What can we learn from Google Domains?June 17, 2023
- How we built made-for-you og:imagesJune 8, 2023
- What to charge for sponsorships on your newsletterMay 30, 2023
- Buttondown's username retention policyMay 13, 2023
- Email length doesn't affect click rateMay 4, 2023
- Automatic image upload with Buttondown + TyporaMay 3, 2023
- Speeding up a Django viewApril 26, 2023
- What Murakami tells us about focusApril 13, 2023
- Pricing page driven developmentMarch 28, 2023
- Netlify functions + ButtondownMarch 21, 2023
- Typescript-friendly label fallbacksMarch 2, 2023
- What it costs to run a software business in 2023February 9, 2023
- Just use a monorepoJanuary 12, 2023
- Q1 planningJanuary 2, 2023
- On monoreposDecember 20, 2022
- Generating a Typescript router in DjangoOctober 26, 2022
- All your emails, in one placeSeptember 21, 2022
- Better logging in RQSeptember 5, 2022
- Attach files to your emailsJuly 17, 2022
- A better events viewJuly 14, 2022
- Secure your account with multi-factor authenticationJuly 8, 2022
- Send teasers for paid newslettersJune 13, 2022
- Buttondown's new pricing systemJune 8, 2022
- How I organize Buttondown's Django applicationsJune 7, 2022
- Send archived emails to new subscribersMarch 23, 2022
- Embed your subscribe form in the middle of your writingMarch 8, 2022
- Granular tracking settingsFebruary 6, 2022
- Migrating Buttondown to mypyJanuary 19, 2022
- Better upselling for premium subscriptionsSeptember 28, 2021
- Accept whatever currency you want for your paid newsletterAugust 28, 2021
- Spring 2021August 18, 2021
- Pay-what-you-want subscriptionsApril 1, 2021
- Support for HTTPS tracking linksMarch 4, 2021
- Email tracking is now off by defaultMarch 1, 2021
- You can now integrate with Plausible!February 22, 2021
- A nicer subscriber importing experienceFebruary 21, 2021
- Referencing subscriber tags in your newsletterFebruary 12, 2021
- Slightly nicer Design settingsJanuary 12, 2021
- Webhooks and the programming pageJanuary 6, 2021
- Buttondown in 2021December 31, 2020
- Undo sendDecember 16, 2020
- Navigation updatesOctober 17, 2020
- Open beta: European mail serversJuly 8, 2020
- Set a custom unsubscribe URL for your unsubscribersJuly 6, 2020
- Compare analytics from multiple emailsJuly 2, 2020
- Saved draft recipientsJune 30, 2020
- Buttondown's funding of open source softwareMarch 9, 2020
- Why you need a physical address in your newsletterMarch 1, 2020
- Annual subscriptions for paid newslettersNovember 6, 2019
- Adding a Buttondown subscription form to WeeblyNovember 5, 2019
- Reminding folks to confirm their subscriptionNovember 4, 2019
- Adding a Buttondown subscription form to SquarespaceOctober 24, 2019
- Adding a Buttondown subscription form to WebflowOctober 11, 2019
- Embedding Instagram photos into your emailsJuly 30, 2019
- How to opt out of analytics and email trackingJuly 3, 2019
- Managing your drafts through the APIJuly 1, 2019
- Open beta: multiple newslettersJune 22, 2019
- Easy subscriber filtersJune 20, 2019
- Scheduling emails through the APIMay 23, 2019
- Sending newsletters that get deliveredMay 16, 2019
- May updatesMay 5, 2019
- April updatesApril 8, 2019
- March updatesMarch 2, 2019
- February updatesFebruary 4, 2019
- Winter updateDecember 2, 2018
- June updatesJuly 4, 2018
- May updatesJune 3, 2018
- April updatesMay 4, 2018
- March updatesApril 4, 2018
- Nicer archive pages!March 14, 2018
- Markdown is easier than everMarch 11, 2018
- January updatesFebruary 1, 2018
- 2017 in reviewDecember 26, 2017
- Introducing subscriber eventsNovember 25, 2017
- Learning about unsubscribed usersNovember 6, 2017
- A new blogNovember 4, 2017
- Learn more about your subscribers!October 10, 2017
- Send emails to certain tags!September 30, 2017
- Gravatar supportSeptember 24, 2017
- Subscriber sourcesSeptember 8, 2017
- Embeddable subscription widgetSeptember 1, 2017
- Creating drafts via emailAugust 21, 2017
- Subscriber and archive searchAugust 1, 2017
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