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Hey everyone, the Buttondown team is mostly offline for the winter holidays so that we can celebrate with our families. We'll be away Dec. 24th-Jan. 5th.
Have a wonderful holiday week, and see you in the new year!💙
Have a wonderful holiday week, and see you in the new year!💙
Looking back on 2025, and looking forward to 2026.
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2025
Looking back on 2025, and looking forward to 2026
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December 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Looking back on 2025, and looking forward to 2026.
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buttondown.com/blog/2025
Merry Christmas! 🎅 🎄 🎁
December 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Merry Christmas! 🎅 🎄 🎁
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Our Nerd answers the question: Can you improve email deliverability with a personal domain? 🤔
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Ask a Nerd: Can you improve email deliverability with a personal domain?
Learn why it’s often better to route your newsletter through your domain, how to set that up, and methods for monitoring a domain’s deliverability.
buttondown.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Our Nerd answers the question: Can you improve email deliverability with a personal domain? 🤔
buttondown.com/blog/deliver...
buttondown.com/blog/deliver...
Hey everyone, the Buttondown team is mostly offline for the winter holidays so that we can celebrate with our families. We'll be away Dec. 24th-Jan. 5th.
Have a wonderful holiday week, and see you in the new year!💙
Have a wonderful holiday week, and see you in the new year!💙
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hey everyone, the Buttondown team is mostly offline for the winter holidays so that we can celebrate with our families. We'll be away Dec. 24th-Jan. 5th.
Have a wonderful holiday week, and see you in the new year!💙
Have a wonderful holiday week, and see you in the new year!💙
We built and released a tiny little project: disposables.app, a free tool for easily checking whether or not an email address domain is disposable or otherwise problematic.
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
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Disposables.app
An open-source database of disposable email domains
disposables.app
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We built and released a tiny little project: disposables.app, a free tool for easily checking whether or not an email address domain is disposable or otherwise problematic.
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
We built and released a tiny little project: disposables.app, a free tool for easily checking whether or not an email address domain is disposable or otherwise problematic.
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
Disposables.app
An open-source database of disposable email domains
disposables.app
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We built and released a tiny little project: disposables.app, a free tool for easily checking whether or not an email address domain is disposable or otherwise problematic.
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
We built and released a tiny little project: disposables.app, a free tool for easily checking whether or not an email address domain is disposable or otherwise problematic.
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
Disposables.app
An open-source database of disposable email domains
disposables.app
December 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We built and released a tiny little project: disposables.app, a free tool for easily checking whether or not an email address domain is disposable or otherwise problematic.
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
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You didn't ask for it, but we hope you like it–we've added a Bluesky follower count tracking option to your analytics. Let us know what you think (and, yes, other social networks to come)! 💙
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Bluesky analytics
Track your Bluesky follower count over time
buttondown.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
You didn't ask for it, but we hope you like it–we've added a Bluesky follower count tracking option to your analytics. Let us know what you think (and, yes, other social networks to come)! 💙
buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...
buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...
Our Nerd answers the question: Can you improve email deliverability with a personal domain? 🤔
buttondown.com/blog/deliver...
buttondown.com/blog/deliver...
Ask a Nerd: Can you improve email deliverability with a personal domain?
Learn why it’s often better to route your newsletter through your domain, how to set that up, and methods for monitoring a domain’s deliverability.
buttondown.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Our Nerd answers the question: Can you improve email deliverability with a personal domain? 🤔
buttondown.com/blog/deliver...
buttondown.com/blog/deliver...
Jeffery uses his newsletter to share tips, tricks, and explore areas within PowerShell that are often overlooked, yet super useful to consider.
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Jeffery Hicks goes behind-the-scenes in his newsletter
Jeffery uses his newsletter to share tips, tricks, and explore areas within PowerShell that are often overlooked, yet super useful to consider.
buttondown.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Jeffery uses his newsletter to share tips, tricks, and explore areas within PowerShell that are often overlooked, yet super useful to consider.
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buttondown.com/blog/jeffery...
We want to know your perspective so that we can build the best Buttondown for everyone.
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buttondown.com/blog/intervi...
How we interview customers at Buttondown
In which we provide space for you to ramble at us
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December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We want to know your perspective so that we can build the best Buttondown for everyone.
buttondown.com/blog/intervi...
buttondown.com/blog/intervi...
You didn't ask for it, but we hope you like it–we've added a Bluesky follower count tracking option to your analytics. Let us know what you think (and, yes, other social networks to come)! 💙
buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...
buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...
Bluesky analytics
Track your Bluesky follower count over time
buttondown.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
You didn't ask for it, but we hope you like it–we've added a Bluesky follower count tracking option to your analytics. Let us know what you think (and, yes, other social networks to come)! 💙
buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...
buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...
We've made it easier for you to have actual conversations with your subscribers. Now, you can reply directly to subscribers from your inbox!
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Reply to conversations
You can now reply directly to subscriber conversations from your inbox.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We've made it easier for you to have actual conversations with your subscribers. Now, you can reply directly to subscribers from your inbox!
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
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Writers, journalists, and event organizers, we've added an extra layer of precaution for you–placeholder text reminder warnings. No more accidentally sending "The event starts at TK" to your subscribers!
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
TK reminders in the editor
Never accidentally send an email with placeholder text again.
buttondown.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Writers, journalists, and event organizers, we've added an extra layer of precaution for you–placeholder text reminder warnings. No more accidentally sending "The event starts at TK" to your subscribers!
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
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Why did we decide to insource analytics? Three reasons: privacy, performance, and price.
buttondown.com/blog/insourc...
buttondown.com/blog/insourc...
Why we insourced analytics
Privacy, performance, and price. Pick three.
buttondown.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Why did we decide to insource analytics? Three reasons: privacy, performance, and price.
buttondown.com/blog/insourc...
buttondown.com/blog/insourc...
The art of adding complexity without making things complicated.
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Minimum viable complexity
The art of adding complexity without making things complicated
buttondown.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The art of adding complexity without making things complicated.
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buttondown.com/blog/how-to-...
@heykellyjensen.bsky.social uses her newsletter as a space to discuss important national and local library issues, book censorship, mental health, and writing.
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How Kelly Jensen uses Buttondown
Kelly uses her newsletter as a space to discuss important national and local library issues, book censorship, mental health, and writing.
buttondown.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
@heykellyjensen.bsky.social uses her newsletter as a space to discuss important national and local library issues, book censorship, mental health, and writing.
buttondown.com/blog/kelly-j...
buttondown.com/blog/kelly-j...
We've made a bunch of changes to our stack this year–here's a round-up!
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buttondown.com/blog/stack-u...
Changes to our stack in 2025
A year-end roundup of all the tools we added, removed, and swapped in 2025
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December 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We've made a bunch of changes to our stack this year–here's a round-up!
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buttondown.com/blog/stack-u...
Want to know a little secret? 👀
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buttondown.com/blog/emails-...
2026: Emails
How we're evolving email delivery in 2026
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December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Want to know a little secret? 👀
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buttondown.com/blog/emails-...
What even is a UTM?
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What the hell is a UTM?
Ultimate tracking machine. Unusually timely metrics. Uniquely telling moments. UTM is all and none of those things.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What even is a UTM?
buttondown.com/blog/what-is...
buttondown.com/blog/what-is...
Writers, journalists, and event organizers, we've added an extra layer of precaution for you–placeholder text reminder warnings. No more accidentally sending "The event starts at TK" to your subscribers!
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
TK reminders in the editor
Never accidentally send an email with placeholder text again.
buttondown.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Writers, journalists, and event organizers, we've added an extra layer of precaution for you–placeholder text reminder warnings. No more accidentally sending "The event starts at TK" to your subscribers!
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
You can now randomize the order of answers in your surveys!
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Randomize survey answer order
Randomize survey answer order
buttondown.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You can now randomize the order of answers in your surveys!
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buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
How do you keep feature creep at bay?
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Keeping feature creep at bay
A thousand no’s for every yes
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December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
How do you keep feature creep at bay?
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the industry is abound with "don't roll your own X" and analytics in particular is one of the things I like reaching to as a counterexample. finally wrote about it!
bsky.app/profile/butt...
bsky.app/profile/butt...
Why did we decide to insource analytics? Three reasons: privacy, performance, and price.
buttondown.com/blog/insourc...
buttondown.com/blog/insourc...
Why we insourced analytics
Privacy, performance, and price. Pick three.
buttondown.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
the industry is abound with "don't roll your own X" and analytics in particular is one of the things I like reaching to as a counterexample. finally wrote about it!
bsky.app/profile/butt...
bsky.app/profile/butt...
Why did we decide to insource analytics? Three reasons: privacy, performance, and price.
buttondown.com/blog/insourc...
buttondown.com/blog/insourc...
Why we insourced analytics
Privacy, performance, and price. Pick three.
buttondown.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Why did we decide to insource analytics? Three reasons: privacy, performance, and price.
buttondown.com/blog/insourc...
buttondown.com/blog/insourc...