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by maguay 7d ago
Absolutely, but it came several years before MIME for example for formatted emails with attachments, and other things.
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by maguay 8d ago
Author here, the idea with the title was that Lotus Notes was built at a time when the standards for email especially but also interfaces and keyboard shortcuts were still in flux, and it was built for so many platforms at the same time, al
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Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch(buttondown.com)
186 points by maguay 8d ago|126 comments
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Write Things Down(stratechery.com)
2 points by maguay 9d ago|0 comments
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Have We Forgotten How to Design?(lmnt.me)
4 points by maguay 23d ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Reproof – A non-linear writing app for perfectionists(reproof.app)
5 points by maguay 1mo ago|1 comments
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by maguay 1mo ago
Washing dishes, strangely, hits that for me. One of the reasons I've never found dishwashers to be worth it.
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Private Email Is Fine(buttondown.com)
1 points by maguay 1mo ago|0 comments
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by maguay 1mo ago
There are dozens of us!
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by maguay 1mo ago
I'm living in Thailand, the self-declared Land of Smiles, and ... it's not very smiley. I visit Japan, which social media seems to say is a terrible place to work and make friends, and it strikes me as much more friendly and outgo
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The Economist Problem and AI(pithandpip.com)
2 points by maguay 1mo ago|0 comments
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Bending Spoons is acquiring Airtable for $1.285B(reuters.com)
11 points by maguay 1mo ago|1 comments
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by maguay 2mo ago
I'm building a writing app for perfectionists: Reproof ( https://reproof.app/ ) I've been a writer for over a decade and a half. I'll often rewrite intros and other sections a half-dozen times, or cut quotes an
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by maguay 2mo ago
Ahhh this too. Love flights without WiFi.
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by maguay 2mo ago
Strangely I think it's why I like roadtrips so much. Sitting doing absolutely nothing for even 15 minutes is difficult for me, but I can drive for hours doing nothing but watching the world go by, even without music or podcasts on, and
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by maguay 2mo ago
And then you have Swatch, making cheaper versions of the Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch, as almost a licensed dupe (though since both are owned by the same parent company, it's almost more of an iPhone SE to an iPhone Pro comparison, in a
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by maguay 2mo ago
This ... means the page could render a QR code for humans while letting bots see the actual URL. That is incredibly cool.
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Google Reader was building the wrong future(buttondown.com)
5 points by maguay 3mo ago|0 comments
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The series of tubes filled with enormous amounts of mail, beneath our feet(buttondown.com)
3 points by maguay 3mo ago|0 comments
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by maguay 3mo ago
Author here: That is true, and it's true in perhaps an even more nefarious way than Google's Instant Answers that showed direct quotes from your site. Both kill clickthroughs, but the former at least let you speak in your own voic
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Writing for humans is the only SEO trick left(pithandpip.com)
3 points by maguay 3mo ago|2 comments
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by maguay 3mo ago
I've always wanted a writing app built around experimentation, where you could write multiple takes on a paragraph then swap them in and out to see how each sounds in context. That, and I wanted a writing app that treated both Markdown
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The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails(buttondown.com)
58 points by maguay 4mo ago|17 comments
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The best ideas come from the arena(reproof.app)
1 points by maguay 4mo ago|0 comments
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by maguay 5mo ago
And yet, when the USPS did deliver email (via paper, no less, with their E-COM system), over half of the message volume was sent by one mass-mailer: https://buttondown.com/blog/the-e-com-story Afraid the spammers wil
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Email could have been X.400 times better(buttondown.com)
239 points by maguay 5mo ago|206 comments
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by maguay 5mo ago
I definitely was channeling my feelings when yelling at Cursor/Claude for the umpteenth time to do what I asked it to do or so help me...
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by maguay 5mo ago
People love to work hard on goals they're excited about, when the work feels meaningful, when they know how to clearly make progress on the task, when there's a shape to the work and a clear criteria for completion, when some comb
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by maguay 6mo ago
Absolutely hilarious that it's watching for frustration. I'd discovered, perhaps mid-2025, that Cursor was noticeably better at fixing bugs if I started cursing at it. Better yet, after a while it would seem to break and start cur
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by maguay 6mo ago
You've got a shot at building a new Sparrow here. This looks really nice. Unsure that every email message needs a tab on the top, too—I think you could almost just rely on the left sidebar and treating the emails there as tabs. That,

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