@fleeky.bsky.social it was so good to meet you too!

Aww, congrats! Nice, I remember being disturbed by the spit painting thing but that one turned out lovely

The old me would have said, "Okay, I'm done, I can't do this anymore"

The new courageous me first took a long nap today, because she was exhausted

Refreshed, she is now setting up a mail server, and feeling excited and a bit crazy to roll her own custom email newsletter software

The new tool kept sending emails out even though we discovered it after only the first 100 went out

We had no way to stop the bulk email send through the tool's UI or API. It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion

I'll share yesterday's horrifying backstory

Over the past 2 weeks we migrated off of Intuit MailChimp and SendOwl to a new "email for developers" tool that we expected to add Unsubscribe links

Guess what, we didn't do it right. No unsubscribe links at all in the sent emails. To 10k subscribers 😭

My use case was that I was working on an AIR app that needed to be able to display arbitrary single-file React apps

Though not just any apps, but trusted ones made by my 6-year-old who's partial to vibe-coding with Claude Sonnet 4 at the moment

I built DjangoPackages.org with @daniel.feldroy.com at Django Dash 2010. We maintained it for years and poured thousands of dollars we couldn’t afford into hosting it because we loved it so much

It lives on, @webology.bsky.social and @fwiles.bsky.social / RevSys maintain and pay for it now