As many of you probably know, I’ve been writing a weekly newsletter called Web Tools Weekly for over a year now. Most issues begin with a brief JavaScript tutorial, after which I include a curated list of tools primarily focused on front-end development. I’ve released a new issue every week, without a break, since July 2013 and I use MailChimp to produce the mailing (disclosure: previous link has my affiliate ID attached, which means we both get $30 towards MailChimp if you become a paying customer).
The subscriber count has grown to almost 10,000 as of this writing, and that number is growing by about 70 each week. For the past couple of months, I’ve been displaying the subscriber count on the home page, and manually editing it every once in a while.
As many of you know, I’ve recently launched a new weekly newsletter called Web Tools Weekly. In addition to providing a weekly, categorized list of tools for front-end developers, most issues begin with a brief tip or tutorial that usually includes code examples that have syntax highlighting.
The method I use is based on a suggestion given to me by Joshua Clanton, who writes the very cool A Drip of JavaScript newsletter. When I asked him how he embeds code in his, he directed me to a page on MailChimp’s blog along with a GitHub repo.