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June 8, 2026Being weirder than AI is practicable and valuable
June 5, 2026Annihilating both time and space: What the telegraph gave email- June 4, 2026Surveys in transactional emails
- June 3, 2026Notes on your team members
- June 3, 2026Public postmortem: tracked links unavailable
- June 3, 2026Public postmortem: custom domain tracking links unavailable and delayed analytics
May 29, 2026Compulsive curiosity, or, how I built an infinite idea machine- May 28, 2026Gift details on the subscriber portal
- May 25, 2026Portal link in the archive nav
May 15, 2026First, add no friction: How micropayments lost and subscriptions won- May 8, 2026Filter subscribers and automations by source
- May 7, 2026Automations, rebuilt
May 1, 2026What email will look like in the future- April 28, 2026Filter subscribers by bounce date and reason
- April 20, 2026Three features are moving behind the paywall
- April 19, 2026Firewall changes and improvements
April 17, 2026Email could have been X.400 times better
April 10, 2026Put your name and voice into your company newsletter- April 9, 2026Simplified email address settings
- April 9, 2026Subscription wall
April 4, 2026Inboxes were overwhelming before we'd even named them
April 3, 2026The US government tried really hard to screw up email- April 1, 2026Public postmortem: database connection exhaustion
March 27, 2026Ask a nerd: what is the best way to unsubscribe from newsletters?
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