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# Autodidacts Newsletter #17
- URL: https://www.autodidacts.io/autodidacts-newsletter-17/
- Published: 2022-12-14T06:14:55.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-14T06:14:55.000Z
- Author: The Autodidacts
- Tags: Newsletter

A mere month after our last newsletter, we have three new posts of ~~varying~~ excellent quality for you.

We have an in-depth article about **ethical affiliate marketing** (we tried to avoid doing *too* much virtue signalling...), including actionable steps to take, and code to use on your own blog:

[Is it possible to use affiliate links without turning into a sleazy affiliate marketer?There aren’t many good ways to monetize a blog. Ads degrade the reader’s experience; membership paywalls restrict reach; sponsorships restrict freedom. Affiliate links have the potential to be a non-destructive monetization option. In theory, affiliate links needn’t have any effect on the reader’s…![](https://www.autodidacts.io/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/10/autodidacts-logo-small.png)The AutodidactsCuriositry![](https://www.autodidacts.io/content/images/2022/12/stable-diffusion-drooling-greedy-affiliate-marketer-in-the-style-of-rembrandt.jpeg)](https://www.autodidacts.io/ethical-affiliate-marketing/)

We have a brand-new and somewhat cheeky article about **social interactions as prompt-completion**:

[Expectation Fields are RealMy brother expects everyone to be nice. I expect everyone is out to get me. Surprising no one, it seems like everyone my brother meets is nice, and everyone I meet is out to get me. (When we are both talking to someone, our expectations clash, and the person is![](https://www.autodidacts.io/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/10/autodidacts-logo-small.png)The AutodidactsCuriositry![](https://www.autodidacts.io/content/images/2022/12/thispersondoesnotexist-example-3.jpeg)](https://www.autodidacts.io/expectation-fields/)

And finally, we have a tiny boring listicle about (not *again)* hosting Ghost on Fly!

[A few more things I’ve learned about self-hosting Ghost on Fly’s free tierFollowing on from my previous two posts on the topic, here are some additional things I’ve learned running this blog for free on Fly: 1\. You can survive a HackerNews traffic spike, without scaling. However, your access logs will pile up. One of my posts made it to #3![](https://www.autodidacts.io/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/10/autodidacts-logo-small.png)The AutodidactsCuriositry![](https://www.autodidacts.io/content/images/2022/11/ghost-on-fly-http-request-count-hn-traffic-spike-square.png)](https://www.autodidacts.io/things-ive-learned-self-hosting-ghost-on-fly-io-free-tier/)

Thanks for reading!