12 years of Postgres Weekly with Peter Cooper | Talking Postgres Ep28
What drives someone to publish 600+ issues of a Postgres newsletter for over a decade? In Episode 28 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Peter Cooper—creator of Postgres Weekly—shares how his days of rustic programming and QBASIC fanzines on Usenet led to a newsletter empire that now reaches nearly half a million developers each week. We dig into the BBC's "big tent" editorial influence, an accidental business model that just worked, and the perils of "temporary" hacks. Plus: spam filters, a Photoshop addiction, and one very cheesy story (dairy-free).✅ Listen to more episodes of Talking Postgres:
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📜 Full transcript available at:
https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-years-of-postgres-weekly-with-peter-cooper/transcript
Chapters:
⏩ 00:00 The Beginning
⏩ 03:50 Born in the GMT
⏩ 06:32 Demo coding in DOS days
⏩ 14:08 Blogging about Ruby
⏩ 23:02 Smallest newsletter
⏩ 31:32 BBC big tent reputation
⏩ 44:49 Funny long IP spam story
⏩ 48:31 12 year trends in Postgres Weekly
Links mentioned in this episode:
🔹 Postgres Weekly newsletter: https://postgresweekly.com/
🔹 Cooperpress Publications, list of newsletters: https://cooperpress.com/publications/
🔹 Postgres Weekly, latest issue on Jun 19, 2025: https://postgresweekly.com/issues/604
🔹 Postgres Weekly, issue with horrible graphic: https://postgresweekly.com/issues/296
🔹 Postgres Weekly, very first issue on Mar 13, 2013: https://postgresweekly.com/issues/1
🔹 Ruby Weekly newsletter, the first Cooperpress newsletter: https://rubyweekly.com/
🔹 Beginning Ruby book, Third Edition, by Peter Cooper: https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Ruby-Professional-Peter-Cooper/dp/1484212797
🔹 Talking Postgres podcast episode, How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with David Rowley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuscMqvhjc4
🔹 Feedbin reader: https://feedbin.com/
🔹 GitHub repo for Feedbin: https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin
🔹 Feeder for consuming content: https://feeder.co/
🔹 Litmus for email testing: https://www.litmus.com/
🔹 MGML markup language for email: https://github.com/mjmlio/mjml
🔹 The Design of Postgres paper: https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M85-95.pdf
🔹 GitHub repo for PGRX, for building Postgres extensions in Rust: https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx
🔹 Podnews, for daily briefings about podcasts: https://podnews.net/
🔹 Wikipedia page for BBC Micro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
🔹 Wikipedia page for ZX Spectrum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
🔹 Calendar invite: LIVE recording of Ep29 of Talking Postgres to happen on Wed Jul 9, 2025: https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-Ep29-cal
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