diego segura @diegosegura@merveilles.town
- http://instagram.com/diegosegura.me
writer + designer. new york city. http://diegosegura.me
#introduction
hello all! i'm a writer + designer. i work at an agency in new york city helping design (and shape positive values) some awesome brands.
passionate about: poetry, great design, intentionality, dedication to craft, and making positive impacts on people through mentorship and friendship.
can't wait to keep up with everyone's projects and hopefully share interesting work, too.
A new term for your vocabulary
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1. A #software designed by a company owned - directly or not - by Mark Zuckerberg (founder of #Facebook).
2. (fig.) Any non- #opensource software which monetizes users' private information or is used to harvest data for control purposes.
Semipalatinsk, soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan. Photo: Alain Nogues
five-penny poems
substack is all the rage.
blog + newsletter + payment processor + community building...
but i just don't like lock-in.
so:
spent all weekend creating a $1/month subscription on my site.
super simple: used stripe for a checkout page. it'll be a tiny list of friends + family. sending nightly plaintext emails on bcc.
very happy with result—it's so simple. (challenging for me to build. i'm just a designer...)
now to keep writing joyful poems for my three subscribers!
so now, my setup looks like:
blot.im — for my writing. it turns a dropbox folder into a blog. pages + posts written in markdown. easy to customize.
now.diegosegura.me — redirects to a notion page, which has my notebook, to do lists, etc. publicly available.
and that's it!
and for my poetry newsletter: super humble. i'll start with just friends and coworkers on bcc: no mailchimp. no tinyletter.
in the past week, I've tried so many services for my website:
super.so — enables custom domain on a Notion, works well, loads a little slow)
substack — great newsletter + payment integration. poorly designed sites, imo. and no customization.
revue — great for a newsletter. lacking in customization. a little simplistic.)
ghost — self-hosted on digitalocean for $5/mo. powerful, but too complicated to customize. would love if using ghost to run a company blog.
but here's what i've decided on...
#introduction
hello all! i'm a writer + designer. i work at an agency in new york city helping design (and shape positive values) some awesome brands.
passionate about: poetry, great design, intentionality, dedication to craft, and making positive impacts on people through mentorship and friendship.
can't wait to keep up with everyone's projects and hopefully share interesting work, too.
- http://instagram.com/diegosegura.me
writer + designer. new york city. http://diegosegura.me
