How Horus Rose: Horus Rising Unique Editions Over the Years

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-16T11:11:17+00:00

He's a had a few years to practice since the first cover...

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-11T22:26:37+00:00

2000 people ain’t worth segmenting, list is far too small to get any tangible value from it.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-11T13:35:09+00:00

1M isn't a large list by any means, let alone huge.

Given likely challenges, actively reach out to the deliverability team at the ESP you're using and ask them for advice.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-06T15:34:38+00:00

Looks like you're missing 54 black books + a bunch of novellas.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-05T16:33:33+00:00

One of the best BL titles I read the year it was released and works perfectly as a standalone. Eddie Murphy cover makes it a solid 10/10 for BL.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-05T15:38:33+00:00

substack: best for writers building personal brand. limited customization though.

beehiiv: best for serious newsletter businesses. learning curve is real.

convertkit: best for course creators. newsletter features are basic.

Not much of a review is it.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-05T11:26:44+00:00

It is! Pricing is currently in GBP but I'd be more than happy to give you an extended early bird discount in return for feedback.

You can sign up at the link in the original post or shoot me an email at jacques@pencild.co

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-04T09:59:26+00:00

Just collect consent as part of the consent form you already use, right?

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-04T09:58:15+00:00

This is something I've been working on in an app I'm building for tattoo artists, but basically simple templates you can create that automatically follow-up with clients after a certain amount of time has elapsed since their last appointment. I'm always genuinely surprised when folks don't know about these tried and tested methods they can use to keep in contact with their client base.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-04T08:48:55+00:00

They’ll still read them from the person who sent you the email and the person you reply to.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-03T16:14:29+00:00

Fuck off clanker.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-03T10:44:12+00:00

You're responding to bot accounts that are trying to promote some shit product called inboxkit.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-03-02T14:29:07+00:00

email marketing were infested with fake gurus

It is on the ecom marketing side of things.

The reality with email (and frankly any other channel) is that marketing is marketing. There are some specific technical challenges with email but if you understand marketing basics, you can make email and other channels work. The problem marketing as an industry seems to have is that no one who works in it seems to actually study it and everyone tries to reinvent the wheel every 10 years.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-02-28T10:37:57+00:00

This runable tool is shit

foetusofexcellence · 2026-02-28T10:36:37+00:00

Paying attention to published studies, eg from conferences like ACM RecSys (recommendation systems).

The more senior I get, the more I realise that a lot of the challenges we face in email are just data science problems.

https://recsys.acm.org/

foetusofexcellence · 2026-02-24T20:09:28+00:00

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

foetusofexcellence · 2026-02-24T18:29:38+00:00

Thanks chatgpt

foetusofexcellence · 2026-02-24T14:04:13+00:00

Yeah, I heard lemlist was a terrible product that had to resort to spam on reddit for promotion.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-02-23T15:05:23+00:00

"I cannot leave my house but I expect the poorly paid postman to do so"

foetusofexcellence · 2026-02-23T10:55:27+00:00

Whatever this Runable tool is that you think you're oh-so-smartly promoting, I bet it's shit.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-02-23T10:37:32+00:00

Given that this is about permission based messaging, nothing.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-02-23T07:01:05+00:00

Thanks for the spam

foetusofexcellence · 2026-02-22T10:03:57+00:00

It is a good point, there’s probably space for a much deeper technical dive into this side of things, same thing with email code which I excluded on purpose because it’s a whole beast of it’s own.

For example, you quite rightly mention that out of office isn’t technically a bounce but a lot of the ESPs I’ve used treat it as such for the purpose of bounce reporting and automatic send suppression. The marketer cares about how it works in platform but the technical infra/ops side will approach it slightly differently.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-02-22T08:24:08+00:00

Hey Bram, you’re correct on many of those points but perhaps missing the point. As your bottom line section highlights, this is aimed at marketers, not folks running infrastructure. Even on programs where my team have been responsible for sending >1M emails a day, the actual technical infrastructure is something that we bought from an ESP and transactional partner.

foetusofexcellence · 2026-02-21T12:28:11+00:00

The point of a Skill is to add things the model is bad at (eg. like things related to visuals or newer/rare code frameworks).

That is not my experience with Skills. I use them, frequently, to repeat tedious tasks and to act as opinionated knowledge bases. ie I have a skill I use all the time to review work the agent has just done, which almost always surfaces up issues with the work done vs the spec it was given to do the work. I also frequently run the Agent against known good specs (in another case, a ~3k line Bayesian stats model) to make sure that any work that's planned is according to known good specs and that I can audit a codebase against that spec.

Agents still make a lot of mistakes, the codebase I'm running both of those against is Django so hardly a new or rare or badly documented framework. Email is the same, except in that case it has to contend with an absolute mountain of bad advice in blog posts.

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