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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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How Jake Rayson shares nature recovery resources across Wales

Jake Rayson uses Buttondown to share nature recovery resources, funding opportunities, events, and activities across Wales.

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How Sarah Becan shares recipe comics and her photogenic cat

Sarah uses Buttondown to share her recipe comics, her writing process, and most importantly, photos of her incredibly photogenic cat.

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Email signatures and the power of defaults

Usenet set the signature rules. Then Hotmail broke them.

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How Damien Joyce uplifts rising indie artists with Buttondown

Damien Joyce uses Buttondown to uplift emerging indie artists and build a vibrant community of music lovers.

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How Linus Lee reflects on life and human-computer interaction

Linus Lee uses his newsletter to reflect on his life experiences as well as cultivate conversations around human-computer interaction, design, and technology.

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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?

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How Randall P. Girdner shares comics and maintains creative control

Randall uses Buttondown to share comics and connect with readers, all while maintaining creative control over his art.

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How Robert Kingett uses Buttondown to fund his writing

Robert uses Buttondown to share his writings with readers and fund his writing endeavors through Buttondown's pay-per-email feature.

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How to return from a newsletter hiatus in style

Minimize unsubscribes and get back into a groove with a little technical prowess and transparency.

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Cleaner subscriber management

Consolidated problematic subscriber types into a single "undeliverable" status with clear reasons.

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How Graham Oliver shares life in Taiwan and spreads positivity

Graham uses his Buttondown newsletter to discuss unique topics, share his life experiences living in Taiwan, and spread positivity with his readers.

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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.

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The subtle art of email forensics

The subtle hints and hardcoded clues to trace the history of every email message

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Show avatars/faces for all testimonials

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PWYW suggestions

Set suggested amounts for pay-what-you-want subscription tiers.

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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.

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Public postmortem: bot identification traffic blocking

Our public postmortem for Incident #0011.

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More filtering options

That's right, even more filtering options

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Added promise to register form

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Filter subscribers by source

Filter subscribers by how they joined, including API, import, organic, manual, or Stripe.

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Creating newsletter webhooks for fun and profit

You don't need to have any experience with coding or HTML, or pay for automation platforms, to move data between apps.

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Filter subscribers by domain

Filter and manage subscribers based on their email domain.

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The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails

Neither the first nor the fastest international connection, it was the one that lasted.

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Dedicated archive settings page

Design settings split into separate pages for email and archive customization.

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Gmail's shortcuts come from a 1976 keyboard layout

Keyboard-only email is just as relevant as it was when computers didn't even have mice.

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What you need to know about Orange's new email protections

Orange has updated its sending requirements. Here is what you need to know to avoid having your emails flagged as spam.