Email's fingerprints are everywhere you look
Open any app on your phone and count the buttons, features, and formatting it inherited from the OG communications app.
How to return from a newsletter hiatus in style
Minimize unsubscribes and get back into a groove with a little technical prowess and transparency.
The subtle art of email forensics
The subtle hints and hardcoded clues to trace the history of every email message
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Cleaner subscriber management
A plaintext subject line is all email has ever needed
Many have tried to diminish or usurp it. All they did was make the humble header more resilient.
What the hell is a Webmention?
If you're mentioned on the internet and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Email signatures and the power of defaults
Usenet set the signature rules. Then Hotmail broke them.
Build a DIY email-to-SMS gateway
Carriers are removing their email-to-SMS gateways, but you can build your own instead.
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Cleaner email editor
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A new home screen
A newsletter-shaped-blog, or a blog-shaped-newsletter
Both are words published online, but the method changes the medium
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The firewall is smarter and stronger
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Better API debugging and clearer error messages
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Dark mode
Leave The Grateful Dead out of it
Don't let gurus turn your favorite artist's story into marketing drugery.
Images in newsletters: how much is too much?
The answer is a perennial crowd-pleaser: it depends.
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Suppressed emails
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Add notes to (almost) everything
How we welcome new customers at Buttondown
A look at Buttondown's new onboarding process and how we help diverse customers get started.
The story of how RSS beat Microsoft
Massive tech companies tried to own syndication. They failed.
