The choice of platform for a project is often one that has future implications on the project itself. There is a tendency toward using what you know, even when there may be another better option available. Here in the beginning, we’ve decided to start with some of what is known, and some of what is new. WordPress powers the sharing engine, and AWS will power the project itself.
I started with a simple goal – send a weekly email notification to notify subscribers about what cookies are available at crumbl cookie this week.
This goal can be broken down into multiple sections:
- determine what is available at cruml cookie this week
- figure out how to run the code
- figure out who wants to be notified and send it
#1 and #2 will be accomplished by AWS lambda functions. #3 is going to be manual for now because this needs to get out the door.
Getting into #3 a bit more, there’s a law that came about in 2003 that made it a requirement to send all commercial mail with some certain attributes such as business address, unsubscribe button, etc, so without an address, or spam management system, these emails are considered “personal”. Maybe in the future I’ll design the rest of it.
End result – leave a comment if you’d like to be subscribed and I’ll get you cookies coming to your inbox every Monday. Imagus extension or an equivalent will give the best viewing experience, and I’ll update here if that changes.