Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

IMHO, the best way to do […]

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Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening […]

Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

IMHO, the best way to do […]

Massive thanks to @buttondown for the best customer service ever!

There was a burp with one of my blog posts, where, probably thanks to my botching the publication date, it didn't get picked up by my newsletter. I have a handful of family and friends who don't use RSS and rely on the RSS-to-Email function I get from Buttondown.

When we realized the problem, I could fix the date in future posts, but there seemed to be no way to get my Buttondown account to pick up that one older post and send it out. So some very nice employee named Justin literally coded that option! Probably on a Friday night since I got email about it this morning! So bonkers kind, thank you so much! ❤️

#Buttondown #SubstackAlternatives #CustomerService

Newsletters and Email Clipping

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/newsletters-and-email-clipping/

Footnotes in Buttondown

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/footnotes-in-buttondown-01-24-26/

I haven't seen many users yet on #PlaneScale for #postgres. Nice of #buttondown trying things for the rest of us. 😅

For migrations like this, spinning up a read replica is key. Use it to do what you need. Primary then gets no impact while migrating.
https://buttondown.com/blog/2026-01-14-how-we-migrated-our-database-to-planetscale

Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum. FYI, this is our first one of 100% TPF curation.

It’s your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week.

IMHO, the best way to do that is to use […]

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/buttondown-canonical-urls-11-29-25/

I mentioned in my previous post that I could not send our regular weekly newsletter due to a formatting issue in Buttondown. Fortunately, my support request was answered quickly. It turned out that I had an extraneous tag in the header (it had not caused any issues before this week). I sent the email. In so doing, I learned something interesting about Buttondown. Two reasons I like Buttondown is because it has a full searchable archive and an RSS feed. That is, it functions like a blog which supports my making Newsletter Leaf Journal its own publication. For today’s email, I set NLJ copy as the canonical URL since I published that before sending the email. To my surprise, I learned that when you set an external link as the canonical, the archive link for the newsletter takes you to the original instead of the Buttondown version (I assumed that the Buttondown archive version would be accessable but with the canonical tag pointing search engines to the original).

#buttondown #newsletterLeafJournal #troubleshooting

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/what-do-you-do-when-you-cant-mail-your-newsletter-11-29-25/

I use Buttondown to host my weekly newsletter, wherein I share links from this site and The New Leaf Journal as well as 21 links from around the web and other news and notes. I had finished drafting my newsletter. Unfortunately, Buttondown is producing garbled formatting that I would not want to put in anyone’s mailbox. I sent an email to support. In the meantime I published the newsletter on NLJ. Buttondown allows for setting canonical links, so it will not be an issue once I can finally mail the newsletter to our regular subscribers and newsletter followers.

#buttondown #newsletterLeafJournal #troubleshooting