Not so much the content (which is actually great, free registration) but I'm proud to work for the company that provides the technical foundation for so much indie journalism www.status.news/p/status-tur...

I’ve seen three threads on the NextJS & React subreddits in the past two days about cron & job running and what people use for them. I’ve used Inngest & it’s fine.

But I struggle to take JavaScript seriously as an enterprise grade backend language until it has this figured out. Thoughts?

As people look for Substack alternatives, I’m happy to chat about beehiiv.

I was a part of Substack Pro’s journalism grant program and left the platform after my grant ended, feeling very limited for growth. Chose beehiiv & now work here after really loving the product and the team.

I spent the first half of 2024 totally flat growth wise, but after about six months of cycling through the cruft of passive readers Substack funneled at me I saw real tangible growth unlike anything I ever saw on Substack. Other writers I've spoken to said they went through a similar transition.

I went with Beehiiv because they were cheaper and easier than Ghost and I wanted to use their metrics to really drill down into who my readers were and what they wanted. Beehiiv has since rolled out some basic community features that, in my opinion, are more powerful than Substack's.

And, once again, the growth you're seeing on Substack is not real. Many writers are terrified to lose access to Substack's recommendation system, but it's just numbers. It's totally passive. If you want a real audience, go get a real publishing platform and find it.

If you want to be part of a conservative social network fine, but you're not building anything real. You're giving them 10% of your revenue to fund their culture war and they're going to keep locking your audience behind their walled garden. There are many alternatives and they're all fine.

Substack juices your numbers in several ways:

-Their signup page is purposely confusing. Many readers don't realize they've automatically signed up
-There are waves of [firstname][lastname][zipcode] emails that come in and mysteriously vanish.
-And the Substack app converts readers into "followers"

I've written about this elsewhere, but the longer you're on Substack the harder it is to move. I've been on Beehiiv for a year now and I'm really happy I made the switch. The "growth" Substack is showing you is absolutely not real and you will find that out very quick when you leave the network!

We just shipped Bluesky sharing & embedding features and I believe we might be the first newsletter platform to do so?

Another great reason to be on beehiiv. We’re platform agnostic and want to help you grow where you want to.

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As a former Substack Pro member, I have to ask: If you’re a serious journalist or media publisher still publishing there, why…?

You’re a cog in a wheel. The yeast for the breadwinners, feeding others growth and limiting your own.

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Seen a few TikToks about Buffalo Trace supposedly being hard to find?

I didn’t look for it when I went to Spec’s or Twin Liquors last week, but is that true? Or is it just some marketing scheme?

Any fellow devs use RubyMine? If so, how does it compare to TypeScript’s Intellisense in VSCode and Ruby LSP?

Often find myself wanting to know more about what available methods exist on certain Gems, but it’s not always easy to click into them and get the answer. It’s TypeScript’s best feature.

If you hadn’t seen, @beehiiv.bsky.social announced a multi-million dollar commitment today to helping journalists go independent.

Our new program is headlined by some amazing journalists: @oliverdarcy.bsky.social, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social & Catherine Herridge.

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BREAKING VIA ABC: The woman at the center of the DOJ's probe of Rep. Matt Gaetz testified to the House Ethics Committee that he had sex with her when she was 17 years old, sources say. Time to pull this grotesque Gaetz nomination!

As a former journalist, I definitely still have remnants of my Twitter addiction. But I’ve spent less time on social media this year than any year prior and that’s a great feeling.

Testing, testing, is this thing on?

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