01/03/2020

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# The leap year seems to have thrown things off somewhat:

Even though I posted yesterday the site thinks I haven't posted for a couple of days:

Weird!

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# Fixed it!

Looks like the way I was calculating "yesterday" didn't always work so I've gone for an alternative method which looks to do the trick.

The daily email has been regenerated and looks like it should.

The muse-letter is coming

Today has been quite productive: I've spent some time finishing off the mechanism for what will be called the "Muse-letter" - NOT a newsletter! It's my 'clever' play on words...

I think I've gotten it all worked out and fixed the glitches. It seems okay in testing but that's never the full story.

The muse-letter is going to be more of a personal missive covering what I'm thinking, reading, writing, doing. I want it to be a conversation starter, something around which we can connect and build a relationship - not just a one way street.

CJ Chilvers advises to Meet your subscribers and that's what I really want this to be about. I may not be able to do so in person but enjoy fostering one-to-one relationships wherever and however they form.

I plan to send out the first letter in a couple of weeks and then semi-regularly thereafter, not according to any strict timetable but whenever there's anything to say.

In the meantime I'd love it if you might consider joining me here.

# If anyone is up for some pre-launch testing just let me know.

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# Thanks to testers (John and Alan) I ironed out a bug with unsubbing from the muse-letter. I'd forgotten to create a string which meant that an email address didn't get removed from the list. That's fixed now.

# During this week I think I'll work on a slightly different version of the sign-up form. While I want to keep the sign-up actions deliberate I think it could do with being streamlined.

Currently, you can only sign up to one thing at a time (the daily emails or the muse-letter) but I don't know whether to allow both at once or just present the current options in a different way.