274: A Little Bit Less Good

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Will is trying on a new hat soon, with a newsletter about the ongoing enshittification of our collective computing experience, and some tips and tricks for... unshittifying it a bit. So this week we're digging into both the subject matter itself, and also the ins and outs of launching a newsletter, the features and policies of some of the bigger publishing platforms, hosting costs, email outreach, the decision-making that goes into monetizing your writing, and more. Plus: tangents on why you should never run your own mail server, Linux kernel scene drama, and a brief look back at some of our quaint old Blogspot material.

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0:00.0	Brad, something horrible happened this week.
0:03.2	Well, look, that might be a little broad, given the current hand wave.
0:07.4	Let's take a step back here.
0:09.1	I think maybe more than one something, but what do you have going on?
0:12.2	I felt a deep personal loss this week.
0:14.5	Okay.
0:14.9	Well, still with you there, but go on.
0:17.9	Look, when we were in Canada, I brought back a bunch of Canadian mini eggs and I've eaten
0:21.5	them all now. Oh, no. What kind of eggs are we talking of? Mini eggs. Price of eggs. Here we go.
0:26.4	Topical folks. Oh, no. Look, look, the secret is you got to be up at 1 o'clock in the morning,
0:31.6	then you order Amazon delivery groceries and they have them pretty much every day. Is it getting worse? It seems like it's a little bit better now.
0:38.5	I don't know.
0:39.1	I saw like a random blue sky post from somebody I don't know yesterday saying the Costco
0:43.4	had no eggs when they went, which seems impossible.
0:46.4	Like I was in the grocery store last night in the egg situation at 7 o'clock at night
0:50.3	was thin.
0:51.6	Okay. at night was was thin okay um it would like we got an 18 pack of eggs last time like a week
0:56.2	and a half ago and we're still working on those so I don't know what I don't know what I don't
0:59.7	know what today's egg situation is um but mini eggs yes Canadian candy eggs cadbury's mini
1:07.7	eggs plentiful I didn't realize it. I mean, people have always said this.
1:12.6	Our Canadian listeners have always said whenever I talk about how much I love mini eggs,
1:15.4	which even the American version, God tier holiday candy as far as I'm concerned,
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