About this here publication.

I'm Tyler Dickey, American (1989–?), based in north London—and Interoperable is the newsletter I've been publishing since sometime in the past, possibly 2022, in a manner best described as sporadic. It arrives on no particular schedule, follows no algorithm, and answers to no sponsor, which is either a business model or the absence of one, depending on your inclinations.

What holds Interoperable together is a stated interest (obsession) in things that are reliable, available, and maintainable—RSS feeds, telephony systems, well-built objects, buildings that have been repaired rather than replaced—and a corresponding interest in the making, reading, and writing that surrounds them. In practice, this means the newsletter drifts across bicycles, bibliophilia, bricolage, concrete, public transport, typography, urbanism, and whatever else has recently made me pause and look closer.

The tagline is: clean, lubricate, adjust. Notes from north London on repair, reading, and making complex things cooperate. That's the operating principle, applied through prose and paintbrush.

Here you will find the full archive—everything published so far and, if you subscribe, everything still to come right to your inbox. That's the arrangement: no more relying on a feed to decide whether you'll get the latest issue. It shows up on no schedule, whenever it feels like it, exactly as advertised.

This publication will

  • always be free of charge.
  • always be informative and educational in nature.
  • always credit and link to sources to the best of the author's ability.
  • never be auto-generated or contain AI (LLM) generated content, aka slop¹.
  • never contain any form of advertisements or undisclosed affiliate links.

You can find more of what I do at tylerdickey.com—photography, resources for creative people, a telephony reference page I'm unreasonably proud of—or follow along on Instagram and, far less frequently, YouTube.

All the links, gathered in one place, live here tylerdickey.mmm.page.

¹ Slop describes AI-generated content that is both unrequested and unreviewed. (Source)

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