enjoyed this! Keep at it. Does Jarrett in the background help get the words flowing? 🤔

Oooh that’s perfect. Thanks!

Ah, ok, I love the ability to one-click and generate my own BlueSky feed that's all my @leaflet.pub subscriptions. The compounding niceties of AT Proto are 🤌

This is so great. I’ve been working through your book, and now I’m on a little side quest reading your blog. Thanks for all your work and sharing a refreshingly clear and lighthearted approach to learning. Your stuff clicks with me and it’s a joy to read. Fitter. Happier. More productive 🤣

Just?!

You could *literally* bring home some bacon and whip up the fam some carbonara aka bacon eggs and cheese in noodle form

Alt: dachshund sun-bathes in the window, belly up, stretching out.

Would love to hear if you've done anything similar, what tools you chose, etc. Side projects are extra fun when they have real stakes and it feels great to give back. They're going to be pretty active these next four years, and they're going to be ready for growth in outreach and audience.

If I did it over again, I *might* have just gone with the in-house managed Ghost experience, but the difference is ultimately fairly negligible. Overall, I chose these tools because they're easy and fast to set up, and once I hand it off, they won't need me very much.

Considering the current site's registration and hosting and everything costs them about $35-40 per month, and does essentially nothing, it's pretty great to get SO much more with the modern set of tools and infra for around twice that.

We've set up a Stripe account, transferred domain registration from Namebright to Cloudflare, and created a self-hosted instance of Ghost + MySQL via Render. Email delivery with Mailgun. Forms with Formspree. Bought a Ghost theme that suits their needs and vibe. All in, it's about $70-80 per month.

If you look at the current site, it's a bit sparse, to say the least. It's time to change that. Some requirements: Email newsletter, online newsletter archive, some educational resources pages, online donations, contact and volunteer forms, and a way to sign up for the print newsletter too.

Outside of dev work, I spend a lot of my time running in the mountains surrounding Ojai where I live. We're blessed to have land trusts, conservation groups, etc. Keep Sespe Wild, was instrumental in getting protected status for the Sespe Wilderness. My mate runs it now, and I offered to help

@caseynewton.bsky.social big news over here

It’s stressful stuff. Sorry you and your family is suffering. Goggles or any kind of eye protection 🥽 are good too