# DeveloPassion's Newsletter 66 - Reach Hello everyone! I’m [Sébastien Dubois](https://dsebastien.net), your host. You’re receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion’s Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ If you enjoy this, please forward it to your friends 👍. If this email was forwarded to you, then don’t forget to subscribe and become a supporter. You can also follow me on [X](https://x.com/dSebastien), [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/dsebastien.net), and [Mastodon](https://pkm.social/@dsebastien). ![[DeveloPassion's Newsletter Logo.png|DeveloPassion's Newsletter logo: lightbulb sprouting colorful idea nodes]] ## Welcome Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 Alright, let's gooooo 🚀 ## The Lab 🧪 This week, the [Obsidian Starter Kit](https://www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obsidian-starter-kit) broke a new record: 100 sales! 🎉 LINK: [[Obsidian Starter Kit]] I sold 44 copies in the last 30 days: $700. I also dared writing about the project on the Obsidian subreddit. I wasn’t too confident because I didn’t want to get banned (I really enjoy discovering the posts over there). Luckily I wasn’t slapped because of it, and it apparently caught the attention of [Eleanor Konik](https://x.com/EleanorKonik), the community manager behind the [Obsidian Roundup](https://www.obsidianroundup.org/) newsletter. She was kind enough to mention the Obsidian Starter Kit in the [latest edition](https://www.obsidianroundup.org/2022-06-04/). Next to that, I sold 14 copies of the PKM Library during the last 30 days, bringing in $275. The PKM subreddit slowly approaches the 300 members mark. It’s not a numbers game, but compound growth does help with the sales, in addition to increasing the number of cool conversations I’m having ❤️ I thought about a new tiny experiment to launch: an Obsidian plugin to easily publish notes to Ghost and/or Medium. I’ve written a [short design document](https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-publisher/tree/main?utm_campaign=DeveloPassion%27s%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter#specifications), and will probably try to build that during a weekend… I will probably not monetize that one, but it will surely help me publish more easily :) > Cool. Apparently, I've made >3K on Medium. > > I keep publishing new content, but a big chunk of the revenue comes from articles I wrote back in 2020. Referred members are also cool; I've actually got some MRR right there 😂 [pic.x.com/kfVN7EAMtD](https://t.co/kfVN7EAMtD) > — Sébastien Dubois (@dSebastien) [June 6, 2022](https://x.com/dSebastien/status/1533941445404540928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) I’ve made ~$3.5K so far on Medium. While I was writing my tech articles back in 2020 I remember feeling bad because my articles were just being “ignored”. I almost gave up, thinking that it wasn’t worth all the effort. In retrospect, it just took some time for compound growth to kick in. **There’s an important delay/distance between the moment where you create something and the moment when the effects are really obvious**. ![[DeveloPassion's Newsletter 66 - Reach - reach on medium.png]] Caption: My reach on Medium alone I’ve almost reached 700K views. So, those “invisible” articles ended up getting the attention they deserved after all. ## Things I've learned this week ![[DeveloPassion's Newsletter 66 - Reach - new notes.png]] Caption: Some of the things I've learned this week Here are some ideas I found interesting: - Linus’ law - Aldous Huxley’s writing about humans and islands, enlightenment, life, and ego - Concept handles - Shared responsibility requires complete accountability - Documents are prisons for ideas - How to go from collector to creator - LATCH - Five Hat Racks If there’s one you want to know more about, tell me. I’ll publish it 🎉 ## Recent articles No new articles this week ## Quotes of the week - [[Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist]] - [[Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect]] ## Tips of the week > If you never go to production, production can't go down! > — Sébastien Dubois (@dSebastien) [June 2, 2022](https://x.com/dSebastien/status/1532261798572851207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ## How cool is that?! LINK: [Spaces: dalle-mini / dalle-mini Copied like 732 Running](https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini) LINK: [THE FEYNMAN SERIES - Beauty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmbwczTC6E) LINK: [Obsidian Roundup - Your Weekly Recap of All Things Obsidian | News & Guides : ObsidianMD](https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/v4ngkz/obsidian_roundup_your_weekly_recap_of_all_things/?utm_campaign=DeveloPassion%27s%20Newsletter&utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) LINK: [Personal Knowledge Management With Zettelkasten - ProductivityCast](https://productivitycast.net/124-personal-knowledge-management-with-zettelkasten) LINK: [GitHub - reorx/obsidian-paste-image-rename: Rename pasted images and all the other attchments added to the vault](https://github.com/reorx/obsidian-paste-image-rename) LINK: [Intrusive Thoughts and Overthinking: The Skill of Cognitive Defusion 20/30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3vhXQy48jo) ## Tech links of the week LINK: [Use Playwright to Test and Automate Web Applications | egghead.io](https://egghead.io/courses/use-playwright-to-test-and-automate-web-applications-74b97e59) LINK: [How Lerna just got 10x faster!. TL;DR: We released a new beta version… | by Juri Strumpflohner | May, 2022 | Nrwl](https://blog.nrwl.io/lerna-used-to-walk-now-it-can-fly-eab7a0fe7700?gi=4ab215161667) LINK: [Docker is dead!?! Podman - an alternative tool?](https://content.fme.de/en/blog/docker-is-dead-podman-an-alternative-tool) LINK: [Ultimate Terminal Setup for Web Developers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pFlEtYru88) LINK: [GitHub - PlasmoHQ/plasmo: The browser extension framework](https://github.com/PlasmoHQ/plasmo) LINK: [The “dark yellow problem” in design system color palettes](https://uxdesign.cc/the-dark-yellow-problem-in-design-system-color-palettes-a0db1eedc99d?gi=3d694cfed05b) LINK: - [[10 Essential Knowledge Management Methods Every Professional Should Master (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/10-essential-knowledge-management-methods-every-professional-should-master/-every-professional-should-master// LINK: - [[Why Obsidian is All You Need - From Simple Notes to Complete Productivity (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/why-obsidian-is-all-you-need-from-simple-notes-to-complete-productivity// LINK: - [[The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Obsidian (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/the-ultimate-beginners-guide-to-obsidian// LINK: - [[Knowii Community]] - https://www.store.dsebastien.net//product/knowii-community