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Tom Insam
Personal blog · jerakeen.org/notesprogrammingculture
Tom Insam's personal blog at jerakeen.org covers programming and culture. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “yay more email clients: solving the wrong problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Tom Insam's personal notes blog. HN links a post on email clients, citing the Android Gmail app's offline reading and queued actions as a model for replacing IMAP.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- yay more email clients: solving the wrong problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-01-17
What Hacker News says?
http://jerakeen.org/notes/2010/01/yay-more-email-clients/ The Android GMail client is a perfect example of what a client looks like in this world. It talks to the (secret / private) GMail API, it does offline mail reading, and queues actions so you can archive / filter / whatever mails while offline and it’ll push changes later. You can read and write mail. It doesn’t try to do anything clever, because anything clev…
Comment linking /notes/2010/01/yay-more-email-clients/
on “How to Replace IMAP”Submitted It's hard to like Android. as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted yay more email clients: solving the wrong problem as a story · 39 points
HN discussion
