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 well-formed, I've got some exciting personal stuff happening (moving!), and for the first time in a while I was able to actually spend the last two weeks decompressing to some extent (a marked difference from December 2020, which was quite fraught and stressful.)

My slate of January work is much more meager than my Q4 roadmap, which was — let's be honest — overly ambitious. Here it is, in total:

• Launch new scaffolding
• Blog about the new scaffolding
• Add checker dashboard
• Remove slug uniqueness assumption
• Allow changing subscriber addresses
• Add recovery flow for spammy subscribers
• Allow both banning and unsubbing

That new scaffolding is almost ready for prime-time, and there's a 60% chance or so that by next week it'll be live, which will be the single biggest change to Buttondown's interface since...ever? I think?