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Here's your options for receiving updates about new blog posts:
Option 1: Email
Email is by far my preferred option for notifying followers of new posts.
The entire email list system for this blog, from storing subscriber email addresses to the email server which sends the notifications out, has been designed from scratch and is completely self-hosted in my living room.
I solemnly swear that:
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You will never receive an email from this blog except to notify of a new post.
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Your email will never be provided or sold to anyone else for any reason.
With all that said, if you'd like to receive an email everytime a new blog post is published then input your email below and smash that subscribe button!
(HINDSIGHT NOTE: We're like three posts in since I set the mailing list up, and GMail is already marking me as spam. So... check your spam folders folks!)
Option 2: RSS
RSS is the classic way to follow any blog. It comes from a time before aggregators like reddit and twitter stole the show, when people felt capable to manage their own content feeds. We should use it again.
To follow over RSS give any RSS reader the following URL...
...and posts from this blog will show up in your RSS feed as soon as they are published. There are literally thousands of RSS readers out there. Here's some recommendations:
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spaRSS is my preferred android RSS reader, but you'll need to install f-droid on your device to use it (a good thing to do anyway, imo).
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NetNewsWire is a good reader for iPhone/iPad/Mac devices, so I'm told. Their homepage description makes a much better sales pitch for RSS than I ever could.