Creating Buttondown Tooling

I thought I'd shift gears and start working on tooling for Buttondown, which delivers this newsletter. While I've been happy with the service, there are a few gaps in features that I'd like to have. Fortunately, they offer a free API for customers, and I've been using it to build tooling to fill in those gaps. I thought you might like to see how I'm doing it and get a peek into my thought process. This won't be code that you can follow along on your own, but you should be able to apply the same principles to your projects.

Archive Searching

I love that my previous newsletters are available in an online archive. However, the site doesn't have a direct search feature. If you want to find what I have written about eventing, you can't easily do that from the website. Fortunately, the content is crawled by search engines, so you could use Google.