Once upon a time I wrote a weekly newsletter on Linux, open source & web development. Basically I wrote about the things that interested me.
Then I took a break . A long one.
But ever since I’ve quit my full-time day job I’ve been feeling more and more energized. And I have more time on my hands. And I still love to write .
The result? I’m bringing back cron.weekly! 🥳
An updated layout#
I took the time to tweak both the HTML and the TEXT version of the e-mail, to be more aligned with the layout of this site. Here’s an example where I took old content to generate the newsletter.
I’ve experimented with ASCII art and figlets for the TEXT version, but it’s hard to get a consistent view across. It depends on the local font, the size, … so I’m just giving up.
How do I sign up?#
There’s a sign-up form at the bottom of every blogpost (like this one) and on the cron.weekly archive pages . And just for your convenience, there’s a signup form here as well!
Ah it feels good to promote that once again.
I was once subscribed …#
… then you should have received an e-mail from me last week, announcing the come-back. You’re still subscribed unless you hit the unsubscribe-link in that one.
Nothing needs to be done from your end.
Note: if you didn’t receive that e-mail, check your spam folder or just sign up again - to be sure.
Migrating all data to this site#
I’ve moved all data from cronweekly.com to this site in the cron.weekly archives
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It’s an effort to consolidate my many domains onto this one, together with the new design . All previous issues should redirect to the correct page on this site.
The idea remains the same, it’s just the URL that has changed. And the colour-scheme.
No more open & link tracking#
There’s an about page on cron.weekly that confirms I do not want to track any kind of open or click-through rate. I want to focus on the content, not on what drives clicks and views.
In other words: the e-mail you receive from me will contain no personally identifiable information, other than an unsubscribe button at the bottom.
“I would like to support you, please consider Patreon”#
From my announcement mailing last week I got several replies about wanting to help support cron.weekly through something like a Patreon or Github Sponsors. I very much appreciate the sentiment!
I’ll take my time in the next few weeks to see how viable that is for small amounts (ie: 1eur/month) given they take a large chunk in transaction fees. If I find something I’m comfortable with, I’ll make sure to announce it.
What you can do to help me#
If you liked the previous newsletters I’d love it if you could promote it to your friends or on social media.
I’m only human and I have to admit: watching that subscriber count go up every week is a dopamine rush that’s addictive. It’s fun. It’s exciting!
If you could help promote the newsletter in any way you can, that would be great!
“I wrote something that would be a good fit for your newsletter”#
Great!
Let me know! Send me an e-mail via [email protected], mention me on Twitter at @mattiasgeniar
or tweet something with the tag #CronWeekly. Depending on the volume of feedback I might not reply to everything, but will read everything.
Definitely send me a link if you found something interesting!