{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano","title":"12 years of Postgres Weekly with Peter Cooper","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/75dea278\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4614,"description":"What drives someone to publish 600+ issues of a Postgres newsletter for over a decade? In Episode 28 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Peter Cooper—creator of Postgres Weekly—shares how his days of rustic programming and QBASIC fanzines on Usenet led to a newsletter empire that now reaches nearly half a million developers each week. We dig into the BBC's \"big tent\" editorial influence, an accidental business model that just worked, and the perils of \"temporary\" hacks. Plus: spam filters, a Photoshop addiction, and one very cheesy story (dairy-free).\nLinks mentioned in this episode:\nNewsletter: Postgres Weekly\nCooperpress: List of newsletters\nNewsletter: Latest issue of Postgres Weekly on Jun 19, 2025\nNewsletter: Postgres Weekly issue with horrible graphic\nNewsletter: Very first issue of Postgres Weekly on Mar 13, 2013\nNewsletter: Ruby Weekly, the first Cooperpress newsletter\nBook: Beginning Ruby Third Edition, by Peter Cooper\nPodcast episode: How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with David Rowley\nFeed reader: Feedbin\nGitHub repo: feedbin/feedbin\nFeed reader: Feeder\nEmail testing software: Litmus\nGitHub repo: MGML markup language for email\nPaper: The Design of Postgres\nGitHub repo: PGRX for building Postgres extensions in Rust\nPodcast news: Podnews.net for daily briefings about podcasts\nWikipedia page: BBC Micro\nWikipedia page: ZX Spectrum\nCal invite: LIVE recording of Ep29 of Talking Postgres to happen on Wed Jul 9, 2025","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/96oK6oMtH0qfumCURmVA4Hg7enGdZ1swehO6BOYsd8w/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84OWEw/YmE3ZDQ5MDI3NzA5/MTljZThlODg3N2Qy/M2M1YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}