Tedium Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2024)

  I’m a writer and editor with an interest in content strategy and a technical bent. I am especially good at pulling together the threads of tech history (which you may have seen on my newsletter Tedium, which periodically shows up on HN) but also have two decades of work history in marketing and journalism. As a freelancer, I’ve written many popular stories for Vice’s Motherboard and just published a story in Fast... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so much?

  Newsletter author here. I run two actually—Tedium (https://tedium.co/) and MidRange (https://midrange.tedium.co). Yes, they work. Beyond the ROI benefits already mentioned by other folks, it’s seen as an “owned” platform, something that you control, versus social media, where the platform is operated by someone else. You can make changes and adapt more efficiently to subscriber needs than somewhere like social... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Craft CMS 4 Released

  I have been using Craft to run my newsletter, Tedium (https://tedium.co), since the start of 2019. I moved from Ghost, which at the time was not really designed for newsletters at all. I find Craft an amazing tool when I want to add new things—a big difference from Ghost, where everything is just kind of set for you and you have to rely on external integrations to expand functionality. I custom-code my emails and... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site

  Https://tedium.co A newsletter that also has a website attached. I set up the backend so it spits out full code for a newsletter in a specific backend view. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• The Complicated Futility of WordPress

  I run Craft CMS for Tedium (https://tedium.co). I could push it further but one way I use it is by creating a custom view that “spits” out a completed email template with all of my desired layout considerations and quirks already considered. I could push it further and run the newsletter through Craft itself, though I’ve chosen to pay someone to manage the sending of the email. (And while not particularly... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• I was bored and made a short little newsletter that I may end up doing on a weekly basis. Let me know what you think!

  There’s a growing scene for email newsletters coming back. I subscribe to a couple that I enjoy like Tedium and Arcade Press . Source: about 3 years ago

• What websites do you all check more than once per week?

  Tedium (I quote, "the history of things that usually don't have histories written about them"). Source: about 3 years ago