2024/08/15 - Buttondown

Journal Configuration

I spent a good chunk of my day configuring this personal website’s configuration (specifically CMS → Newsletter combo). The email provider I used was https://buttondown.com/ which is run by Justin Duke. The docs are really well built, as well as the API reference is realllllly good.

Buttondown is run as an indie business (likely have raised no capital), but solves a key problem that is a Good UX Mailing List API. Probably is doing some good numbers by now (ARR in several millions ?!?), makes you realize the power of compounding but also just sticking to one thing for a sustained period of time. It’s beautiful to see someone that’s at it for years - especially knowing how hard it is, as most projects in crypto I know have either pivoted, died down, or is non-functional.

I spent probably the last 8 hours trying to configure the mailing list (that is fully automated w/ server actions + more) but ultimately came to realize that no one is going to ever use this (just make the content good and refreshable I guess. But at least the website is fully complete and up-to-date.

Light Progress

For Light, we’re committed to sticking to one thing only - using multiple chains as it is one. We have three (1, 2, 3) upcoming releases to compound and realize on this vision.

Crypto Progress of the day

This is really cool - drives a fair economic pricing market function for rollups to be resistant from blob fee spikes. I wonder how they function in the implementation complexity for going back and forth between calldata and blobs.

Reading of the day

Founders and Momentum

From:https://multitudes.weisser.io/p/founders-and-momentum

I need to regain momentum = hope. Even though hope is shit, probably it’s very telling whether one has hope or not from a third person view. If you know someone that has managed to keep hopes (momentum), plz DM me.

Video of the day

So much of what we consider to be “normal” in our lives is powered by things that someone that we will never know has created in the past (not to mention that someone has a family, parents, and bloodline of his own, which is crazy considering the countless things that is around us)