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Have you ever seen anyone try it and report numbers? Ads for Facebook are fairly specific. Its creepy how finely you can segment your audience. Industry giants may have larger budg…

Indie games have become a race to the bottom, and devs are content on watching them slide. If I had a nickel every time I saw a downward sloping sales graph, with a single spike fo…

Turns out a machete is much easier to use than the machine that is Unix. A machine that will mow down the entire forest in 30 seconds, or blow itself up, depending on what you tell…

I am always shocked at how marketing-adverse indie game devs are. Developers invest a ton of their base commodity (time) into a game, but refuse to advertise it or fail to save cas…

This analogy falls flat when you compare the levels of Unix 'bullshittery' to a shop. In a shop you have a limited number of already working machines that are readily visible. In U…

The 'bullshit' he is referring to is not the software itself, but its arcane interface. Think about the first time you tried to install a new version of python, only to have both v…

Not all ESPs force unsubscribe links. We ultimately put liability on our customers for CAN-SPAM compliance. We had CAN-SPAM compliance checks on by default, but they could be disab…

This is a cop-out article that MailChimp can direct its customers to when they ask "how to disable spam filters." I worked in support for another ESP, and customers would often hav…