Buttondown strengthens security with passkeys in March update

Buttondown now supports passkeys as a password replacement and improves newsletter tracking and analytics in its March update.

https://yoota.it/en/buttondown-strengthens-security-with-passkeys-in-march-update/

Buttondown introduce le passkey e rinnova la sicurezza con l’aggiornamento di marzo

L'ultimo aggiornamento di Buttondown si concentra sulla sicurezza e sull'esperienza di accesso degli autori. La novità più incisiva di marzo è l'introduzione delle passkey, una mossa che permette di abbandonare le tradizionali password in favore di un'autenticazione basata direttamente sui sensori biometrici o sui PIN del proprio dispositivo. Accedendo alla pagina di login è ora possibile configurare questo nuovo metodo in pochi secondi. La piattaforma consente di usare le passkey sia […]

https://yoota.it/buttondown-introduce-le-passkey-e-rinnova-la-sicurezza-con-laggiornamento-di-marzo/

Currently pitting semi-self-hosted¹ #Listmonk and #Notifuse against my current newsletter host #Buttondown. Want to know how they fare.

I really like BD but my subscriber base is >1k which means I spend $29 on each monthly mail. Fiscally, that's not a winning proposition right now for me as I'm still not made of money, and all those costs add up.

I need to bring my own mail server for both (or use one of the supported services, like SES or Postmark.)

¹) PikaPods.com FTW! #EU, too

The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 20 March, 2026

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 […]

https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-20-march-2026/ #ActivityPub #Akkoma #ATProto #bluesky #Buttondown #CSS #Drupal #DrupalCMS #fediverse #Friendica #GNOME #Gutenberg #Holos #HTML #HTMX #Hubzilla #Inkwell #javascript #Joplin #Linux #Madblog #Markdown #Mastodon #MicroBlog #NodeBB #nodejs #OMN #OpenProject #PostmarketOS #Sigil #Tangled #Twig #WebComponents #WordPress
The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 06 March, 2026

This post first appeared on The Fulcrum.

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 […]

https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-06-march-2026/ #ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Blacksky #bluesky #BuildAwesome #Buttondown #Calibre #CSS #Emissary #FAIR #fediverse #Forgejo #Furilabs #Ghost #GoToSocial #Gutenberg #Holos #HTML #HTMX #Inkscape #javascript #Linux #Mastodon #Modal #NetNetNewswire #Nextcloud #OMN #PostmarketOS #Tuta #Wafrn #WordPress #XMPP
The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 27 February, 2026

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 […]

https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-27-february-2026/ #ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #bluesky #Buttondown #Codeberg #CSS #Emissary #FAIR #fediverse #Ghost #GoToSocial #Gutenberg #Holos #HTML #HTMX #javascript #Linux #Mastodon #Nextcloud #OMN #OrganicMaps #PixelFed #Tuta #WordPress #XMPP #xWiki

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

Buttondown, which powers The Newsletter Leaf Journal, published an informative post explaining how some email hosts clip emails that reach a certain size. It varies based on email provider. Several email apps, like Outlook, Apple Mail, and Proton, won't constrain your emails beyond the limits set by SMTP. Others do, though. Gmail cuts a received email short once it hits 102kb in size (not counting attachments). That tends to work out to around 17,000 words of plain text, or as low as 7,000 […]

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

[Bookmark] Newsletters and Email Clipping

I learned from a post in the Buttondown blog that some email providers such as Gmail enforce size limits on inbound emails, affecting long-form newsletters.

The Emu Café Social

Footnotes in Buttondown

I mailed the 264th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal earlier today. I included 21 links from around the web (the usual). I had one saved link (see how I save links) noting the unfortunate consequences of putting a request for a Court to take one action or another in a footnote. I decided to take that as a challenge and use many footnotes in my newsletter (I wrote the footnotes in markdown by the way). While I do not think I will do the same thing in Newsletter Leaf Journal 265 next week, […]

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

[Note] Footnotes in Buttondown

For the first time, I used footnotes in my Buttondown email newsletter. I was impressed with how Buttondown’s web interface displayed the footnotes.

The Emu Café Social

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

How we migrated our database to PlanetScale

Swapping the rug everyone's dancing on