Email Without the Nonsense
If you are like me, you will forget that this site exists the moment you close the browser tab. Which is fine; there are a lot of sites out there and you have limited time. If you would like a reminder whenever I publish something new, subscribe to updates via email.
Also if you are like me, you generally dislike getting emails and you might be wondering: is this a trap?
An artist's interpretation of your decision process:
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Shedletsky.com Email Policy
No news, no email.
If there are no new posts or worthwhile updates, I will not send you an email at all. A frequency cap is not a schedule, and I will not manufacture a digest just to fill one.
I write the emails.
Emails are excerpts from new blog posts written by me, not an AI, or ad hoc messages written by me, possibly with spelling mistakes. Software may format, schedule, and deliver my writing. It does not generate the editorial message. No automated clanker-authored spam.
You pick the mail frequency cap.
You choose the most often content email may arrive: no cap, once a week, once a month, or major announcements only. The first three choices apply to both new-post notices and occasional ad hoc notes. “Major announcements only” receives only messages I explicitly mark as major and is capped at fewer than four per year.
Each cap is a simple rolling limit measured from the last content email sent to you. It is not a promise of a digest. Quiet periods stay quiet.
Password resets don't count.
Your cap applies to posts, project updates, and announcements. Outside it, I only send messages you request or messages genuinely needed to operate or secure your account, such as email confirmations, password resets, account recovery, and real security notices. An update or promotion will never dress up as account mail.
No ads. No paid placements.
Shedletsky.com does not sell ads, sell or rent its subscriber list, or do paid product placement. I expect 99% of updates to be non-commercial. I might ship a paid Steam game or another paid thing someday; if an email is about something you can buy, it will say so plainly.
Just boring delivery stats.
Your address is used for this subscription and, if you have one, your account. It is shared only with service providers needed to operate the site and deliver email. Those systems record delivery, bounces, opens, and link clicks. I use that information to keep mail working and to see whether the email and its frequency are actually useful, not to build an advertising profile.
You can always escape.
Every content email ends with the same Email Controls panel. It shows your current mail frequency cap, with links to send less email, pause for 90 days, manage email, unsubscribe, and read this page. You do not need to log in. The panel is supplied by the delivery system, not written into each message by hand.
Existing subscribers are never silently moved to a higher frequency. You can leave whenever you want, and the unsubscribe link is in every content email.
Frequently Unasked Questions
What kind of content will you publish?
Honestly it will probably be 80% brainrot and 20% updates on projects that I am working on. Rational people can disagree about which posts belong in which category, but this is the minimal signal-to-noise ratio that I am shooting for.
If your content sucks can I unsubscribe?
Yes. Every content email includes controls to send less email, pause for 90 days, manage your frequency cap, or unsubscribe from everything. You are allowed to click them.
Where can I get even more Shedletsky brainrot?
Check out my twitter.
hey boomer who is the squid guy
That's Admiral Ackbar. He's a Mon Calamari, not a squid, and one of history's foremost experts on suspicious user interfaces. He is here in an advisory capacity.