April 6, 2022
The case of the missing scheduler, part 3 It would be lovely (albeit unsatisfying) if this was an issue that evaporated on its own, like so many transient...
March 30, 2022
The case of the missing scheduler, part 2 I was really hoping that I would have some sort of juicy insight or breakthrough to share here. I... do not. The...
March 23, 2022
March 23, 2022 The case of the crashing scheduler This week’s tricky operational issue is one that is still a little in-progress. Buttondown runs on Heroku,...
March 9, 2022
Hello after a month of chaos! I am writing for you for the first time from my new house in Richmond, Virginia. In the past 28 days since my last missive,...
February 2, 2022
Hello hello! This past week was a quiet one: I mentioned that I was headed to the cabin with some friends, and cabin time was unproductive — which is to say...
January 26, 2022
I wrote last week about three painful queries that I needed to futz with: exporting all email events, aggregating client statistics, and time-series...
January 19, 2022
Buttondown had its first planned partial outage of the year. (Of 2021, too, if my memory isn’t failing me — but, you know, new year and all that.) This was...
January 3, 2022
Welcome to the first Weeknote of 2022! I'm fairly excited about this year (as much as one can be excited about any year) — the slate of work feels fun and...
November 29, 2021
(Apologies for the off weeks for the past two weeks! Travel, et cetera.) Checker, revisited As the year winds down and I try not to alarm myself with the...
November 8, 2021
A belated note about public archives In my excitement and/or delirium last week, I forgot to mention that I managed to carve out and ship one of my six Q4...
November 1, 2021
Good on my promises. I vowed last week to push out the list view changes, and I did! They're now live. There are going to be some hiccups in making sure the...
October 25, 2021
This week was split in twain. I spent the first half in Seattle, as I tend to do, plodding away on the ListView work that I’ve spent the past two weeks...
October 18, 2021
First, I suppose, the good news: Email filtering, such as it is, is done. My goal with the item is complete! My DataTable component has expanded and I now...
October 11, 2021
I started my first piece of the Q4 roadmap yesterday. It might not look like much yet, but I am very excited about the following screenshot: Why am I...
October 4, 2021
No big news, since I spent most of this past week trying to clean up the slate for the Q3 -> Q4 transition. A smattering of updates this week, then: I got...
September 27, 2021
I whined last week about having a fairly unstructured Q3 despite my lofty goals, and I think Q4 is going to (hopefully?) be a bit better. You can take a look...
September 20, 2021
Where have I been for the past two months, you ask? I have been active, I promise! I’ve been around! I write a lot about the “good type of busy” and the “bad...
July 26, 2021
Hello from the East Coast! I’ll be here for the next four weeks, which will be an interesting stress test on how productive I can be without my routines &...
July 19, 2021
I’m working on the hairiest part, technically speaking, of the documentation site — which is search functionality! This is slightly trendy at the moment —...
July 5, 2021
It is OKR season at my day job and so it is OKR season in Buttondown as well. I think I am actually making a pretty good go of it, this time around: Two...