So @leanpub launched in 2010, and we've been generating PDF and EPUB ebooks from Markdown for over a decade. Authors can click one button and we publish their book in PDF and EPUB. We take this for granted now, even though it's news to most of the world. What's new? 🧵

We'll be posting on X at the start and end, of course. You can also see our status blog here: https://t.co/oCFQsgpsD1

Scheduled Downtime on Friday, December 19, 2025 at 9 AM Pacific Time We’ve been working very hard this year, and on Friday, we’re finally going to be deploying the long-awaited V3 version of Leanpub! Leanpub will be offline for up to 6 hours, from 9 AM Pacific until about 3 PM

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Obviously he knows much more about marketing than me, but I think David Senra should just combine his new podcast with @FoundersPodcast ... It's the same subject matter, and the downside of fragmenting the audience into two feeds outweighs any positives.

I once wrote about Wikipedia lying about needing money every year. There's a Wikipedia "Head of ML" here on X. Forgot his name, but you probably see his posts. He was following me, but this clown blocked me after this post :-) Once again: WIKIPEDIA DOESN'T NEED SO MUCH MONEY.

General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young of Acton, asked the Justice Minister in the House of Lords to guarantee that at least people accused of speech crimes have a right to a jury trial, which is such an important bulwark of free speech. She declined. Trial by

This. Also, there actually were docs, which could be read. Pretty sure I've read most of the original Java Swing docs (~JDK 1.2), for example.

Wow, everything really is downstream of housing affordability. This paper (long but very interesting, recommended reading) makes a compelling case that our housing crisis helps explain the rise of the degen economy and the shape of Gen Z culture. What happens when young people

This analysis of the limitations of strategy games by my son @e_p_armstrong is absolutely brilliant, and funny too! https://t.co/oiuPwfrOYg

we would never give out headphones

Jensen Huang: “To be CEO is a lifetime of sacrifice” “Most people think that [being CEO] is about leading, being in command, and being on top,” Nvidia founder Jensen Huang begins. “But none of that is true.” Jensen explains: “You’re in service of the company. You’re creating

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Copywriting pro tip: If you can articulate someone's pain better than they can, they will believe you have the ability to solve it. Focus on their pain, not your pitch.

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Jeff Bezos explains the “releasing the work” framework he used to build Amazon In the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos had too many ideas. Then Jeff Wilke, a new Amazon executive at the time, told his boss, “Jeff, you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon.” “This was just a

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