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Francis Tseng
Personal blog · spaceandtim.esprogrammingdesign
Francis Tseng writes space & times, a personal blog at spaceandtim.es about programming and design. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “ProtonMail Bridge and Mutt”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Francis Tseng's site for a guide on using ProtonMail Bridge with command-line tools like mutt and offlineimap. One commenter says the guide was hard to find on the site.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
francis tseng's blog
Most-linked posts?
- ProtonMail Bridge and Mutt2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-10
- Humans of Simulated New York (AI Public Policy Project)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-11
- The Invisible Interface2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-07
What Hacker News says?
I wasted a good bit of time looking through their page to see if ProtonMail bridge would work with arbitrary tools like offlineimap and found it nowhere there so for anyone else with the same question. It appears it does. https://spaceandtim.es/code/protonmail_mutt/
Comment linking /code/protonmail_mutt/
on “More people are searching for an inbox that protects their privacy”Submitted The Invisible Interface as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Invisible Interface as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted ProtonMail Bridge and Mutt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Humans of Simulated New York (AI Public Policy Project) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Humans of Simulated New York as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Humans of Simulated New York as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an Automatic Retweeter as a story · 1 points
HN discussion