I just had one of those ideas.

Key fact: Last time I looked Substack didn’t have an API for posting a message. They seem to want you to use their editor, or at least copy/paste the text from another source. I am not here at midnight to copy the text of Scripting News and paste it into a dialog. So I wrote my own newsletter software, not a great use of my time then and I have to keep it running, etc.

But now I need a special mail list, there’s so much software coming out of the Scripting pipe, we’re going to try something new.

Here’s the idea — I bet Claude Code can do it for me. It already reads my RSS 2.0 feed, and if somehow I mark a post as needing to go out immediately (tbd how) their agent could post it to Substack on my behalf, automatically.

So this is a test. I already have a Substack list. 52 souls are signed up, in vain until today — I never planned to actually use it, but here we are. This could be the first actual post to that list.

Update: It worked. Love it. Still a bit more work to do.