Jacob Wolf

Like in many other languages and frameworks, like Go and Ruby on Rails, this is so second nature. GoRoutines and Sidekiq workers are pretty damn easy to spin up. Mostly scalable too.

Why doesn’t JavaScript have a similar semi-native solution? Been thinking about this a ton lately.

I’ve seen three threads on the NextJS & React subreddits in the past two days about cron & job running and what people use for them. I’ve used Inngest & it’s fine.

But I struggle to take JavaScript seriously as an enterprise grade backend language until it has this figured out. Thoughts?

Why would someone do this?!

As people look for Substack alternatives, I’m happy to chat about beehiiv.

I was a part of Substack Pro’s journalism grant program and left the platform after my grant ended, feeling very limited for growth. Chose beehiiv & now work here after really loving the product and the team.

Glad to have you, man! ❤️

I spent the first half of 2024 totally flat growth wise, but after about six months of cycling through the cruft of passive readers Substack funneled at me I saw real tangible growth unlike anything I ever saw on Substack. Other writers I've spoken to said they went through a similar transition.

I went with Beehiiv because they were cheaper and easier than Ghost and I wanted to use their metrics to really drill down into who my readers were and what they wanted. Beehiiv has since rolled out some basic community features that, in my opinion, are more powerful than Substack's.

And, once again, the growth you're seeing on Substack is not real. Many writers are terrified to lose access to Substack's recommendation system, but it's just numbers. It's totally passive. If you want a real audience, go get a real publishing platform and find it.

If you want to be part of a conservative social network fine, but you're not building anything real. You're giving them 10% of your revenue to fund their culture war and they're going to keep locking your audience behind their walled garden. There are many alternatives and they're all fine.

Substack juices your numbers in several ways:

-Their signup page is purposely confusing. Many readers don't realize they've automatically signed up
-There are waves of [firstname][lastname][zipcode] emails that come in and mysteriously vanish.
-And the Substack app converts readers into "followers"

I've written about this elsewhere, but the longer you're on Substack the harder it is to move. I've been on Beehiiv for a year now and I'm really happy I made the switch. The "growth" Substack is showing you is absolutely not real and you will find that out very quick when you leave the network!

If you wanna chat beehiiv, happy to. I was a part of Substack Pro during my journalism days and left after my grant ended because I hated the platform and moved to beehiiv.

Now I work here helping journalists and others onboard!

S/o to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social and @katz.theracket.news for vocalizing this one.

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We just shipped Bluesky sharing & embedding features and I believe we might be the first newsletter platform to do so?

Another great reason to be on beehiiv. We’re platform agnostic and want to help you grow where you want to.

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Death by a thousand substacks If you’re not a breadwinner, you’re the yeast.

As a former Substack Pro member, I have to ask: If you’re a serious journalist or media publisher still publishing there, why…?

You’re a cog in a wheel. The yeast for the breadwinners, feeding others growth and limiting your own.

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Seen a few TikToks about Buffalo Trace supposedly being hard to find?

I didn’t look for it when I went to Spec’s or Twin Liquors last week, but is that true? Or is it just some marketing scheme?

Any fellow devs use RubyMine? If so, how does it compare to TypeScript’s Intellisense in VSCode and Ruby LSP?

Often find myself wanting to know more about what available methods exist on certain Gems, but it’s not always easy to click into them and get the answer. It’s TypeScript’s best feature.

Yeah, I prefer the Prettier class sorter anyway, but think we’re just at a point where if we’re gonna move to another tool, we’d like it to do everything we want it to.

This is what’s keeping us from switching off ESLint and Prettier to Biome at beehiiv too.

We have four workspaces in a monorepo — two Remix, one RR, and one vanilla JS — and it’d be great to rip out disjointed ESLint and Prettier configs for one common Biome setup.

We’ll be taking applications from other journalists in the next few months and providing them with:

- Legal support & media liability insurance
- Health insurance stipends
- Access to Getty Images & Perplexity Pro
- Accounting support
- A growth budget on our Boosts network
- Business strategy

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If you hadn’t seen, @beehiiv.bsky.social announced a multi-million dollar commitment today to helping journalists go independent.

Our new program is headlined by some amazing journalists: @oliverdarcy.bsky.social, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social & Catherine Herridge.

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Tell your Senators: Oppose Matt Gaetz for Attorney General Please contact Congress now!

BREAKING VIA ABC: The woman at the center of the DOJ's probe of Rep. Matt Gaetz testified to the House Ethics Committee that he had sex with her when she was 17 years old, sources say. Time to pull this grotesque Gaetz nomination!

Of all the social platforms, Twitter has always had the lowest CTR. As a creator, it’s more about clout than it is ROI.

As a former journalist, I definitely still have remnants of my Twitter addiction. But I’ve spent less time on social media this year than any year prior and that’s a great feeling.

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