<story><title>How We Automated 99% of Our Newsletter Business</title><url>https://thetechonomics.com/2020/06/03/how-we-automated-99-of-our-newsletter-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>biznickman</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve attempted to build automated news systems in the past and have done so successfully a couple of times. However this is completely misleading as the work is not in publishing but instead is in the actual discovery, curation, and writing of content.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know where the joke is from but if there is one about how engineers set up a blog it would go like this.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Normal person:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Goes to Medium, Wordpress, or somewhere else, starts writing and clicks publish.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Developer:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Set up ReactJS for the front end&lt;p&gt;2. Set up a build system for automated deployments&lt;p&gt;3. Sets up MongoDB to store the articles they&amp;#x27;ll be writing&lt;p&gt;4. Sets up the backend to serve up the various articles&lt;p&gt;5. Builds an integration for Wordpress that enables Wordpress to pull and push (make sure both ways) to the MongoDB system that&amp;#x27;s storing the newsletters&lt;p&gt;6. Sets up all the integrations required for SEO&lt;p&gt;7. Sets up the integration testing framework&lt;p&gt;8. Write an article&lt;p&gt;9. Clicks publish</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>satvikpendem</author><text>This is because an engineer&amp;#x27;s interest is not in the actual writing, but the creation of such a blog. To such engineers, I&amp;#x27;d say that this is fine, but don&amp;#x27;t delude yourself into thinking that these are necessary steps to writing when there are much simpler ways, such as Medium or Wordpress as you say.</text></comment>
<story><title>How We Automated 99% of Our Newsletter Business</title><url>https://thetechonomics.com/2020/06/03/how-we-automated-99-of-our-newsletter-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>biznickman</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve attempted to build automated news systems in the past and have done so successfully a couple of times. However this is completely misleading as the work is not in publishing but instead is in the actual discovery, curation, and writing of content.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know where the joke is from but if there is one about how engineers set up a blog it would go like this.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Normal person:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Goes to Medium, Wordpress, or somewhere else, starts writing and clicks publish.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Developer:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Set up ReactJS for the front end&lt;p&gt;2. Set up a build system for automated deployments&lt;p&gt;3. Sets up MongoDB to store the articles they&amp;#x27;ll be writing&lt;p&gt;4. Sets up the backend to serve up the various articles&lt;p&gt;5. Builds an integration for Wordpress that enables Wordpress to pull and push (make sure both ways) to the MongoDB system that&amp;#x27;s storing the newsletters&lt;p&gt;6. Sets up all the integrations required for SEO&lt;p&gt;7. Sets up the integration testing framework&lt;p&gt;8. Write an article&lt;p&gt;9. Clicks publish</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>juandazapata</author><text>Grey beard:
1. Opens emacs
2. Writes the post in org-mode
3. Exports to html
4. rsyncs with a remote server</text></comment>