Jude Ellison S. DoyleInterview
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Adapted from Jude Ellison S. Doyle's interview on Uses This, published 14 April 2024. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
The laptop is a MacBook Air, the smallest and cheapest one with the fewest frills.
Communication
Anyway: With Trint, I just pull up GarageBand or Zoom, record the conversation, and upload it.
Do not do business with Substack if you can possibly help it -- it's the cheapest option, and it can grow your audience relatively quickly, so I understand why people start out there, but the management are the shadiest creeps I've ever had to deal with in a work setting, and they're increasingly outing themselves as Nazi sympathizers.
Ghost is also really expensive, though, and Beehiiv has most of the same extras for about half the cost, which makes me think I'll probably move there some time in the next year unless I get a big spike in paying subscriptions.
Coding & Development
First: I don't know how anyone has ever written a book without Scrivener.
Media
Other
Second: Everything about my reporting got better when I started using Trint.
My newsletter is currently on Ghost, because it's got a lot of bells and whistles, and because it's a non-profit, which makes me think it'll be more stable in the long run.