I'm on Substack but Ignoring Notes

Just a little housekeeping news before we resume our regular blogolicious blogging times. For a while I’ve had a feature where you can subscribe to get my posts sent to you in your email! Like a newsletter! I used Mailchimp for this service, it integrated seamlessly with Squarespace and Just Worked. Life was good.

But sometime in the last few years, Mailchimp changed their interface? I think? And the result is that I could no longer get into any of my templates and edit a number of problems that were slowly cropping up — think escape characters in the footer and broken links.

Unfortunately they also changed their pricing model, and for the volume of emails I send, the math didn’t make sense. I am not making any money from this, folks. Just a hobby!

So! Like the title says, I asked around for the best service for this purpose nowadays, and the answer I got was… Substack. It makes sense, because tapping into the Substack ecosystem does put you in front of a bigger audience. And it’s free, which is also pretty great.

Unfortunately, Substack doesn’t have a neat integration with Squarespace so I can write a post in one and have it magically appear in the other. I’ve spent a lot of time looking around, and it looks like it should be technically possible, but I don’t have the right combination of chops and time to make it happen. …If you know how to do this, though, I am all ears.

Anyway! If I’ve done this right, many of you are now seeing this in your email. Great! If not, I done screwed up, and I’m really sorry about that, but also please tell me so that I’m not spamming everyone.

Oh and if you’re reading this on Deus Ex Machinatio Prime and are interested in the Substack/email version, there’s a signup form at the bottom of this page. And if you want to keep up with me but in a less verbose way, there’s always my classic newsletter, now also on Substack!

And that’s it. Have a great weekend, everyone! Excelsior!