Dan Carson

Big day! We just launched a new brand for @Memberful. New look, new site, and finally a brand that matches our point of view. Memberful is for operators who want to own their membership business completely; not rent it. memberful.com

I know the joke has been made before, but this really is our life now youtube.com/watch?v=a8K6QU…

Attacked

@nathan_h_b Maybe they have a field coordinator or bench coach we could poach

Good morning! The Cleveland Guardians have some of the very cheapest owners in all of baseball and are 28-22. Their manager Steven Vogt has won the Manager of the Year the last two seasons. He was on Seattle’s coaching staff in 2023. Have a blessed Wednesday, and go Mariners!

@colinokeefe Yup. But Dan's strategy for fostering culture seems very surface-level versus systematic. It worked last year thanks to Cal, but now it's clear there isn't really a system to fall back on for Plan B and C

@okdan It’s so tough to judge in baseball because culture and vibe management are the biggest part of being an MLB manager. But when you’re noticeably bad at the in-game stuff—AND HELPED COST YOUR TEAM THEIR BEST SEASON EVER—it’s tough to overcome.

If Dan Wilson weren’t Dan Wilson, he wouldn’t have the job in the first place—but also, his seat would be a lot hotter now were that not the case.

@mintlify Hey there - we want to try this out, but I'm not sure why you need write access on the codebase?

Workflows let you toggle automatic updates for code changes, changelogs, translations, broken links, SEO, grammar, brand tone — and more coming. All configurable in one click.

Docs should maintain themselves. Today they do, in one click, with workflows.

I love how snappy the @vercel UI feels

@dvassallo As with everything in parenting, starting day one, you can choose to have pain now or pain later - but there is no pain free option

Modifying kids’ behavior with star stickers only works short term, until they realize you’re trying to control them and they rebel.

@simonsarris @the_singlepivot Two overflowing carts of butter and siggi's yogurt gave it away

@the_singlepivot Yes Strangely one of the only places I've been recognized in real life

Life

The SF board of supes should make data centers tax free, but you’re required to build 10 stories of apartments on top.

I love finding little UI bits that sit in a crucial workflow but clearly haven't been touched in 15+ years

@jorgemanru Excited to give it a try!

I’ve been a huge Basecamp fan since forever, and I’m also an employee, so I’m definitely not objective. But the upcoming Basecamp 5 feels special. I’ve been feeling that for a while now... P.S. I’m considering dropping a LGTM on the Basecamp 5 PR 😬. I just hope GitHub doesn’t choke when we merge it.

Great first day at @stripe sessions! Excited for day two tomorrow.

MAGA Girlfriend is a pretty good band name

2026 is a golden age of bad infographics. It's going to make 2013 look like 2007.

@pitdesi Crown has the best coffee in the bay area. Ordinaire for ground zero of natural wine movement. Movie at Grand Lake, tiki drinks at Kona Club, dinner at Pizziaolo, soak at Piedmont Springs, fire pit beers at Drake's.

We are doing a staycation in Oakland this weekend Staying Uptown, near Lake Merritt. Idea is to spend time exploring somewhere we don’t spend enough time in What should we do?

the Pomodario technique

@simonsarris Banger

@JohnONolan Thank you, sir!

@okdan Thanks Dan, new Memberful site looks great btw

Every time Substack make a move that serves the business, they disingenously play it off as something that's in the best interest of users. > [Email is getting less reliable, so we had to build an app.] "I know I've said this a lot, but I cannot emphasize enough that email will continue to become less deterministically reliable as a means for distributing your work; this is a huge part of why we got into the app and feed business!" Sure. And there's also the economics. One of the largest overheads for any newsletter platform is email delivery — it's expensive, and it scales linearly with subscribers. Delivering the same content by API to an app you own is essentially free, and keeps users inside your ecosystem. The app isn't some reluctant response to problematic technology, it's just a better business. That would be perfectly fine to say out loud. Instead it's "email is unreliable, actually" - a pretty stark reversal of how they used to talk about email. Substack CEO in 2018: "[Email is] the one channel that you have as an independent writer to reach a reader base that’s not directly mediated by a third party. It doesn’t have a Facebook algorithm deciding what people are going to see." In 2026: email is bad, and the answer is the Substack app, mediated by the Substack algorithm deciding what people are going to see. Yes, email is more complicated than it used to be, but there are thousands of newsletter platforms out there, and only one of them is insisting that the only solution to reliable distribution is using their branded app. > [Nobody feels locked into Substack.] "I saw several wags speculate that this was because we were trying to achieve 'lock in' at the behest of our investors. Brother, if you've ever heard of someone who feels locked-in to Substack because of their follow graph, please tell me." The lock-in is not the follow graph. That's a complete strawman. People feel locked in because mobile paid subscriptions are literally locked in. Subscriptions started on the web sit in the writer's own Stripe account — portable, owned, migratable. Subscriptions started inside the Substack app are permanently stuck on Substack. Which, ofc, is conveniently "[just how mobile works, Apple make us do it]" - but publishers don't even have an option to disable paid subscriptions through the Substack app, they are forced into using it. We migrate people off Substack to @Ghost every week. One of the top complaints is "I need to get out before any more of my revenue gets locked into the Substack app." Substack is a venture-backed platform optimising for retention, unit economics, and platform dependency. That is a perfectly normal thing for a venture-backed platform to do. Just say what you're actually doing and stop trying to dress it up as something else.