In a world full of fancy development tools and sites, the kernel project's dependence on email [...]
Email and calendar made better
Fast, private email hosting for you or your business. More productive, lightning fast, simple and built to save you time.
Email and calendar made better
Fast, private email hosting for you or your business. More productive, lightning fast, simple and built to save you time.
We’re Making Email More Modern With JMAP
The specifications for JMAP have been published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), marking a big victory for email tools now and in the future.
Case Study: Email Startups
Comprehensive analysis of email startup failures. Why most email companies fail, burn millions in VC funding, and shut down. Learn what actually works.
Email explained from first principles
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
Mailing-List 2.0: Discourse
You got a few people working on something and you seek for an efficient way to communicate (ideas, news, messages, etc.) online. This guide gives you an overview about what you could expect in the past and what you should ask for nowadays. Mails According to Wikipedia, the first mail was sent in 1971. The access to a network we call Internet today was quite limited in these early days. Users have been mostly universities, and I guess, not everyone, but mostly the STEM disciplines Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. So it comes at no surprise that mails are perceived as inconvenient and antiquated.
Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters
On the rise of newsletter production, consumption, and monetization, and how email is one of the most powerful and resilient publishing platforms.
The Golden Age Of Open Protocols - AVC
Protocols are a geeky topic. It’s way more interesting to talk about applications. People will go on and on about why they like gmail or some other email application. But not a lot of people get excited about SMTP and IMAP which are the underlying email protocols that allow the gmail application to talk to […]
Slack didn’t kill email — and it might have made it stronger
Front’s Mathilde Collin on why email is making a comeback
How not to replace email
As of a month ago, the ApacheWave project is“retired”. Few people noticed; in the seven years that Wave was anApache Incubator open source project, it never ...
The trouble with text-only email
Mozilla's manifesto commits the organization to a number of principles, including support for i [...]
Email isn’t decentralized, and that’s fine
Email is open, but deliverability depends on a few big inbox providers. Why we traded some of email's decentralization to fight spam, and why that's fine.
The Lively Kernel
Build Your Own Browser Tools Without a Backend - J Lopes
Many free online tools want your email first. Most of what they do can happen in the browser instead, and this is how.
"Useful" is not sufficient
So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. […]
Clarifying: I feel like we just invented email addresses. And they’re tricky, I get it. But I’m pushing back on “wtf is the @ symbol even, nobody knows what ‘inbox’ or ‘smtp’ is, stop making it hard for normies” Instead of making atproto invisible, what if we made it worth the learning curve?
Eli Mallon
If your goal is to make atproto accessible to non-technical users I implore you to stop calling them “normies”