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Now that the newsletter is out announcing it[1] and that it has a fancy url[2] I can say here that FoC has an almost functional full history search :slightly_smiling_face: check it out here and let me know if it breaks: <http://history.futureofcoding.org/>

[1] You didn't know that FoC has a weekly newsletter? fix that problem here: <https://tinyletter.com/marianoguerra/>
[2] Thanks to <@UC2A2ARPT>

Does the newsletter only extract messages from certain channels, or do you curate which conversations are added?

I pick from general, feedback and two-minute-week, maybe I should add graphics and music to it

if it's a slow week almost all will go in the newsletter, if there are many I try to filter the ones that are not so much about future or coding :slightly_smiling_face:

Is there a way to search by author? For ego surfing purposes :slightly_smiling_face:

not yet, I have to add the usernames to the search index (and pagination, otherwise it will be a lot for some users)

<@UCUSW7WVD> just added msg sender username and real name to the index and reindexed, if you search for `Agaram` you should get all messages that you sent or were mentioned, next task is pagination (for some reason if I search "Kartik Agaram" it returns much fewer results

<@UBN9AFS0N> ive been combing through the past few months in my inbox. thanks so much for doing all of this, ive gotten so much out of it. One suggestion that may or may not involve a lot of labor: thumbnails for the video media content? There may be a way to pull directly from slack's unfurl widgets into the tinyletter

I'm personally more interested in the visual forms people are experimenting with than, say, type systems, and the video thumbnails are an easy (lossy) heuristic to find whos doing what

I never went too deep into how images work on emails, if someone has experience

You can use an &lt;img&gt; tag that points to a URL, and that works fine. Put any styling on the &lt;img&gt; inline for best compatibility, rather than using classes or ids and a separate style block. `px` units work best in my experience.

Eg — here's an image I use in one of my emails:

```&lt;img width="113px" height="126px" style="vertical-align:middle; margin-left:6px; margin-top: 20px;" src="[Big long CDN url]"&gt;```

Heya <@UBN9AFS0N>, thanks for the newsletter. Is there a way to access the archive, i.e. more than the last 10 newsletters?

<@UDRF3ALP4> hi, thanks! isn't it possible here? <https://tinyletter.com/marianoguerra/archive?page=4&amp;recs=10&amp;sort=desc&amp;q=>

you have to click on the right arrow on the footer

Woops missed that, my cookie dialog ignoring vision made me blind to that component. Thank you!