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I’m taking a break from cron.weekly

ma.ttias.be

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Subscriber here. Thank you for cron.weekly. I really like it and it has been my habit reading it every Monday morning. It is totally understandable that it is not the big scary task that make your brain wear out but the ones require your continuous efforts and time. I hope the the missing of cron.weekly will help remind people of the pressure newsletter writers, bloggers, open source maintainers are facing and the nature of burnt out. Take care

Thanks man, appreciate it!

I need to get more in touch with unix news in generel for my job. Lurking on HN and Reddit doesn't seem like enough. Too bad that i heard about cron.weekly too late. Any other similar resources?

If you aren't already subscribed to LWN (lwn.net), do it now. It is the single best resource there is of both Linux and the broader UNIX ecosystem, both technical (I know a lot about LRU lists that I didn't before) and the broader social movement (I know much more about the governing models of various projects and their community engagement than I did before).

There is a fee but it is lower than for any paper trade magazine and the quality is absolutely on par with such. They have a staff rather than taking articles from anybody which I feel helps keep an even quality to the writing. Absolutely recommended.

Here are a couple of recommendations from my part;

1) https://lwn.net/

2) http://www.devopsweekly.com/

3) Security newsletter https://securitynewsletter.co/

You may like my own news letter https://betterdev.link

It isn't as good as cron weekly since it more like my own personal links, target to my taste(I like infrastructure and many programming languages).

Give it a try and let me know :)

:-( I'm an avid reader, this was one of those rare things that was consistently useful every week. I have no idea how he found the stuff for the email every week, but I loved it, and learned so much. Really sad to see this one go.

Thank you for the kind words, they mean a lot!

This is my favorite weekly newsletter type thingamajig. I can't wait for it to return.

> I won't lie, running cron.weekly has been my most profitable side business to day. Factor 10x more than all the others. But it's no passive income, it requires a newsletter issue every week, on the clock.

For me that reads: It's profitable but I have to work for it? What else did he suspect?

> For me that reads: It's profitable but I have to work for it? What else did he suspect?

More like: this hobby got out of hand and is now taking too much of my time, despite the fact that there's financial compensation. cron.weekly wasn't created to be profitable, it was a side-effect of it becoming more successful, but I just need a mental break.

That is very uncharitable reading and besides, the article explains very clearly why that contributed to him not wanting to do cron anymore.

He kept up with those weekly releases for two years. That is damm lot of regularity and work.

That part there waits pros and cons of continuing. Original expectations have nothing to do with that.

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