Tutorials
There's a ton of email services out there to reach your users. There's Mailchimp, Revue, Sendgrid, SES, etc. But costs can quickly rise if your sending regular emails and as an indie maker that can keep you back. I initially launched the beta for Wave Radio
Life
A lot of time our opinions on things are formed before we ever experience them. It applies to new food, movies, and even people. The scraps of information we've gathered before experiencing something tend to shape our first impressions. Your experience with a new video game can start
Faves
Articles Cities Are Tucking Climate Change Fixes Into New Laws [https://www.wired.com/story/cities-are-tucking-climate-change-fixes-into-new-laws/] An interesting story about how US cities are creating more policies that tackle climate change through land use and zoning reform. Kids’ movies are ready to escape Amblin’s influence [https://www.theverge.com/
Side Projects
After a lot of technical and design work in the past month to get Wave Radio [https://waveradio.co] ready for launch, I'm finally launching the beta today. I started working on this project in August 2018 but progress completely stalled when I found some technical issues with
Life
After reading Sam Altman's post How To Be Successful [http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful] today this section stood out to me. > The most successful people I know are primarily internally driven; they do what they do to impress themselves and because they feel compelled to make something
Thoughts
Some time ago I wrote a post [https://200wordsaday.com/words/how-i-d-like-to-write-9775c196707cf289] about the characteristics I'd like to include in my writing. I've always had these ideas in my mind, but writing them out has helped me a lot. Since then I've found myself
Life
It's a privilege to be able to forgo money for less tangible things. Experience, passion, or duty. Not everyone has that luxury. Money is tempting even when you don't need it. It's no surprise that most of the wealthy seek to get wealthier. In
Life
I recently finished Auston Kleon's Show Your Work and this quote he used stuck with me. > "Compulsive avoidance of embarrassment is a form of suicide." - Colin Marshall It can feel like embarrassment is the worst pain one could bear. You wish you could cease
Faves
Articles Facebook’s 10-year glow-up challenge reminds us that Facebook used to be fun [https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/14/18182052/facebook-10-year-challenge-glow-up-profile-picture] I loved this look at how Facebook and our relationship has changed in the past 10 years. It inspired me to write my own perspective [https://keenen.
Life
No celebrity death has ever affected me the way Mac Miller's did last September. I was in shock, I cried, I reminisced. I was surprised at how hurt I felt. I wasn't fully aware of how deep the connection created through music and art can run.
Culture
With many of the recent hot topics, I've seen a natural inclination by many to revert to whataboutism. > Whataboutism is a variant of the tu quoque [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque] logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them
Tech
Where were you when Google announced they were killing Google Reader? If your answer is "What's Google Reader?", then you're in the majority. But in the world of mega-corps like Google, a product loved by a minority can have a user base of millions.