The ssp.sh Newsletter
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Data engineering, writing & a public Second Brain, all written by hand, to your inbox.
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# What is the Newsletter About?
It’s a classic newsletter like we had before Substack was a thing. I don’t send blogs by email (anymore), it’s me writing to you with what’s on my mind and sharing the latest news from my page and what’s going on. See it as random rambles that you don’t find anywhere else, not uploaded, email only.
I try to share interesting things to hopefully give you ideas or things that are unexpected, sometimes nerdy computer stuff, but also life, philosophy, and other things I am interested in at the moment, when learning every day.
Mostly thoughts about my experiences from my work in data engineering, technical writing, and my life as a dad living in Switzerland. Some behind-the-scenes from my Obsidian and Neovim workflow, what I’m learning, and news before it hits socials. I’m sending now and then, no schedule usually, but currently trying a monthly cadence.
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# Cadence and Origin
This blog started its first editions in 25th of July 2017 with Mailchimp, sent to a massive 5 subscribers 😉. Since then, I have sent 78 total emails, most of which were announcing a new blog post.
Fully handwritten, since I’m doing this when I switched to Listmonk in April 2023, I’ve sent about 25 newsletters that way, over roughly three and a half years, that’s about one every seven weeks. That should give a good overview of the cadence of this newsletter.
# First Edition of This Newsletter
Some nostalgia, from the first edition sent to the five email subscribers (probably all demo accounts of mine 😉), to how it grew over the years and how I switched from Mailchimp to Listmonk.
This is what the first edition looked like, I can see, even then, that I wrote rather long 😅:
If you want to read that, this is mostly a re-send of my blog article, still live at What Data Warehouse Automation tools are on the market.
# Newsletter Evolution Subscribers by Year since 2017
Today, the newsletter reaches about 3,200 readers per edition ( 4,2K sign-ups in total, minus unsubscribes, bounces, and unconfirmed addresses).
xychart-beta
title "Newsletter Readers Reached by Year"
x-axis [2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026]
y-axis "Subscribers" 0 --> 3500
bar [6, 25, 32, 58, 100, 157, 470, 1777, 2842, 3219]
line [6, 25, 32, 58, 100, 157, 470, 1777, 2842, 3219]
Looking forward to having you as part of the journey. Feel free to reply to any of the issues, the replies always go to my inbox directly.
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