This is an open source website for our newsletter Until It's Not Fun, written by Jacob McLane and Westley Winks. We are just a couple of friends that wanted to build a newsletter for ourselves, with no expectations other than having fun. Subscribe here to get our emails or click here to see our past posts.
Like our website and workflow and want to use it to start your own project? Easy!
First, you need to install Hugo. Look at the documentation to do that. Then clone it to your machine with:
git clone https://github.com/Westley-Winks/until-its-not-fun-newsletter.git <folder_name>
cd <folder_name>
Then go crazy and have fun changing everything! See what your site looks like by running hugo server and going to http://localhost:1313 in your browser. It is already optimized for deploying on GitHub as it will automatically build whenever a push is made to main.
We use Buttondown to distribute emails. There is a script (scripts/make_newsletter_draft.py) that uses Buttondown's API to generate a draft. It uses the title of the index file as the subject, the content as the body, and a custom header that links to the post on our website. Run the script with environment variable INPUT_POST_PATH that is equal to the folder path of the post you want to draft (e.g. INPUT_POST_PATH=2022-04-15). Then go make sure it is formatted correctly in your Buttondown drafts and hit send!
If you have any feedback on either the site or the newsletter content itself, open an issue! If you have questions about anything or want to reach out to us you can either open a discussion or (even better!) subscribe to the newsletter and hit reply. We would be happy to hear from anyone!
The content of this project itself is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under the MIT license.