Email is good.

I’m not sure if it’s unprofessional or not. I prefer email for professional things, but context matters a lot. It’s not that I don’t text at all, I prefer text for social stuff among friends and family. Plus more immediate messaging like “where you at?” and “send me that 6-digit code you just got.” I…

I like this blog rant from Tyler Mercer. It’s essentially the joke I put in this blog post, only spelled out for why it’s so silly. There is an irony here. Of all the things that text-based LLM “AI” could really kick ass at it should be email. I have a massive corpus of email,…

Meme alteration of an original. I’ve probably said this 100 times but this is part of the thrust of my interest in email productivity. A joke like this is 100% reliable to get a zillion likes, suggesting that people universally are drowning in email. A frustrating and damaging place, not a place of productivity. The…

Do you ever wish you could write code to help deal with your email? Sometimes this type of niche nerdery appeals to me, but somehow I’ve never done it myself. Which might be because it’s not exactly the most straightforward and accessible thing to do. It’s not like Gmail has a settings panel you can…

One thing on my little list here to think about and ask people about is emails that you can’t turn off. Maybe you’re in this situation because you are in a GitHub Org at work and the notifications are settings that you just don’t have access to. Or you use some other kind of software…

Just saw the JMAP protocol idea the other day, then heard about it again on the Talk Show. JMAP is not a conversion of IMAP to JSON; it is a new protocol. It was designed to make much more efficient use of network resources, to be easier for developers to work with, and hopefully to…

Remember Thunderbird? It was an email client from Mozilla that was… pretty good? If you were a Firefox fan, perhaps you’d use Thunderbird for email too, as you had proclivity toward that vein of software. Perhaps you remember it from the olden email days like with Eudora and all that. I’m just trolling you with…

I heard more chatter than I would have guessed about Mimestream “launching”. I guess I’m surprised just because of how niche it is: Plus it’s… kinda… ermmmm…. almost exactly like the free Apple Mail? Quick, guess which is which? I just kind of assume that Mimestream plays nicer with Gmail, although I couldn’t give you…

Somehow, I’ve had the same phone number every since I’ve had a phone. Twenty five years! Every time I’ve gotten a new phone, or more to the point, changed carriers, it was trivially easy to keep the number, so I did. It’s been nice, actually. I feel like it makes it easy to get a…

As in, a place that is special, important, and private to you. A place where outside influence isn’t really welcome. A place where you don’t expect change or surprises. I’d say the answer is “pretty darn holy” for anyone that takes email cryptography seriously. And I say that just because it means doing some pretty…