The best Blogging newsletters

Birchtree is a personal blog by a long-time tech writer covering Apple, technology and AI, with reflective essays and commentary on media and public claims. Recent issues mix sharp critiques of 'nobody knows this' overconfidence with a personal retrospective on sixteen years of blogging.

A personal blog of a software developer sharing side projects, experiments with LLMs and self-hosting, and reflections on coding and work. Readers get informal, first-person write-ups of what the author builds and the tools he uses.

Orchid Files is a personal newsletter from a writer with ten years in startups, mixing monthly essays and daily notes on lessons learned. Recent issues cover practical lessons from getting banned while promoting a project on Reddit, a method for keeping a file of life questions, and a critical look at blogging platforms for finding readers.

Practical how-to guides for people running blogs and newsletters on the Ghost publishing platform. Issues cover Mailgun sending limits, productivity frameworks like PARA, and customizing the Ghost editor.

Personal essays by author Jeff Goins on the writing life, creativity, and finding meaning in everyday experience. Readers get reflective, voice-driven pieces about blogging, the source of creative work, and living simply.

A personal newsletter from an Apple fan and digital nomad sharing curated discoveries, reflections on writing and AI, photography, and reviews of software and web tools. Each edition mixes short personal notes with links and mini-essays on read-later apps and digital creativity.

A blog-turned-newsletter mixing personal essays on productivity, procrastination and habits with practical guides on blogging and online marketing. Readers get reflective self-improvement frameworks alongside creator-business tips.

Personal blog by iOS developer Ryan Grier covering his blog hosting moves, his long-running views on Apple's treatment of developers, and occasional app news such as selling his Beer Style Guidelines app. The posts are candid and personal, with some reflection but little depth or original reporting.

A how-to resource for choosing blogging platforms and building an online business from a blog, with lists of platforms and general advice on audience growth and monetization. Readers get comparisons of tools and generic guidance on blogging for authority and income.

Kyoto is a newsletter from the maker of a Ghost theme for personal portfolios, blogs and reading pages. Its issues mix product feature listings with generic short essays on web design and writing, such as why personal websites should be minimal.

Snook is a Ghost theme demo sent as a newsletter, and its sample issues contain placeholder Lorem Ipsum text under headings like productivity, happiness and AI. Readers get no real content, only a preview of the theme's layout and styling.

The only available issue is a default placeholder 'Hello world!' post from a new Showit blog template. It offers readers no substantive content yet.