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• Back up your Substack

  A lot of deplatformed content creators have been flocking to Substack of late.

  I can see why: It's an easy-to-use blogging platform that allows for simple monetization of your content. It even comes with mailing list functionality. That's a big deal to those on the "fringe" - it's tough for wrongthinkers to make a living on the New Normal Internet.

  Bad boys and girls lose access to their Patreon, after all. The particularly naughty ones might not even be allowed on mailing list software, let alone Twitter or YouTube.

  Substack solves a lot of problems for these people.

  Because while Substack …

• Tutorial: Creating Custom Themes With Pelican

  Pelican is a static site generator written in Python.

  In this blog post, you'll learn how to create your first Pelican site and how to style it using a custom theme. This tutorial assumes you have a good grasp on HTML, CSS, and basic command line input. Familiarity with the Jinja2 templating engine is not required but nice to have.

  Despite being written in Python, Pelican only forces you to interact with Python via its config file - so aside from using pip and setting up a proper venv (which we'll cover in this tutorial), you don't really have to know …