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Jason Rodriguez

rodriguezcommaj.com

Jason Rodriguez is a slightly jaded—but ultimately hopeful—tech worker. Currently working at GitHub.

Essays / personalMusicEngineering management / careers

’10’15’20’25
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107 from 19 Sep 2008 to 16 Jul 2026
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monthly (14 in the last year)
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2026 12

  1. Nowhere Near My Art
  2. Irregular Communication
  3. Trusted vs. Untrusted Agency Amplifiers
  4. Curation Forces Curiosity
  5. The Albums That Made Me
  6. Making Art is Part of The Fight
  7. Intellectual vs. Gut Understanding
  8. Page3
  9. Looking for a New Thing
  10. Newer
  11. My Eye is in Love
  12. I turned off the lights in the email shop

2025 5

  1. 40 Questions for 2025
  2. Don't Wait Around for a Deus Ex Machina
  3. Why doesn't anything work anymore?
  4. Mustafa at The Ark
  5. David Gray at The Masonic Temple Detroit

2024 19

  1. The Company, Part 2: Keep Teams Small
  2. The Company, Part 1: Setting Clear Expectations
  3. Free Time
  4. Some Birthday Thoughts
  5. Speak Easier
  6. Some Recent Live Shows
  7. Future Islands at Royal Oak Music Theatre
  8. Hard But Not a Struggle
  9. The No-Niche Newsletter
  10. A Month in Review: May 2024
  11. Jeffrey Martin at The Ark
  12. What happens when you burn out?
  13. A Month in Review: April 2024
  14. Ableton Live vs. Logic Pro
  15. Turns Out I'm Not Alone
  16. my first yoga class
  17. The Other Story So Far
  18. My years of burnout
  19. A Little Python Project

2023 5

  1. Tech Will Never Love You Back
  2. Jeff Tweedy in Ann Arbor
  3. My New Martin
  4. One Year at GitHub
  5. Marketing Operations is Paranoia

2022 13

  1. Living in Data
  2. Adios, Twitter
  3. Getting Smaller
  4. Note to Self: Use HTML, Not Emojis
  5. An Update on The Better Email On Marketing
  6. The Best Ways to Learn Email Marketing
  7. Dark Mode Quick Toggle on MacOS
  8. It's GitHub time!
  9. The Better Email On Accessibility
  10. The Emails I Actually Read
  11. The Content Concert
  12. The Email Marketing Glossary
  13. Back At It

2021 3

  1. Be Really Good
  2. After I left Litmus in 2021
  3. What does it mean to be civic-minded?

2020 6

  1. What is civics?
  2. Adjudication
  3. and another
  4. I Love Swearing
  5. No Time to Prep
  6. It looks like this

2019 1

  1. On Digital Self-Reliance

2018 11

  1. What's next?
  2. Just a Fellow Traveler
  3. Supporting Speakers
  4. Keeping a Speaker Profile
  5. What WCAG 2.1 Means for Email Marketers
  6. What Email Marketers Can Learn From the Original Apple iPod
  7. Once You See It...
  8. Inspecting Email Accessibility in Firefox
  9. A Few Tips on Building Slides
  10. Email Takes Resilience
  11. On AMP for Email

2017 9

  1. HTML Email and Accessibility
  2. Rethinking My Workshop Approach
  3. Plans Change
  4. Immersion and Motivation
  5. My First Favorite Web Design
  6. Nearly Table-Free Emails
  7. Page13
  8. How will my time be affected?
  9. The Borrowing of Books

2016 8

  1. That Doesn't Make Sense
  2. The One Superstition I Kind of Like
  3. wrote a post
  4. a musician
  5. Explaining How I Make Explainer Videos
  6. Whose website is it, anyways?
  7. Wait. What just happened to my email?
  8. Writing FTW

2015 3

  1. Balance
  2. Using Images in HTML Email
  3. Email at the Turning Point

2014 4

  1. Blastphemy
  2. Where Web and Email Meet
  3. Animating GIFs
  4. Strange Days

2013 6

  1. Pruning
  2. Joining Litmus
  3. On the Cusp of Craftsmanship
  4. Purpose in Email Marketing
  5. We Build at Night
  6. Sunday Night on Hacker News

2012 1

  1. Is it worth it?

2008 1

  1. Dial Ed for MSO