Coming tomorrow: paid posts

I'm replacing my Patreon campaign with a paid version of this newsletter. (The weekly version will remain free... forever.)

Dear reader,

Apologies, as it is the weekend, but we must briefly talk business.

This post discusses the introduction of paid, subscribers-only content into my Substack workflow. For $5 a month/$50 a year, readers get access to 1-3 extra blog-length posts each week. Also covered is the suspension of my current Patreon campaign, which began last Spring and has extended long past its expiration date. My current weekly email will remain free and with format unchanged.

Allow me to further explain:

Why I’m introducing paid content:

Those who have been (paid) supporters of my blogging and newslettering for a while are likely familiar with the Patreon page I have set up to receive donations. It takes a lot of work (~5 hours) to produce each weekly newsletter (and even more to write technical blog posts) and supplementary income makes the time investment much easier. Several reasons (detailed here) have caused me to reconsider Patreon as an avenue for obtaining this revenue, and I have decided it…