My shared links for April 5th through April 6th: Why I still program – "I believe that the rejection of programming as a lower activity can be explained by the Theory of the leisure class. In effect, we do not seek utility but prestige. There is no prestige in tool-making, cooking or farming. To maximize [...]

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My shared links for December 28th through December 29th: The Email-SIG Archives – Archives of group working on email package in python Link Grammar – grammar parsing package homepage as part of abiword Overview — NetworkX 1.6 documentation – dmalcolm – Automatically detecting reference-count bugs in Python extension modules – PyCon US 2012: Parsing Horrible [...]

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My shared links for August 22nd: InfoQ: Interview: Richard Hipp on UnQL, a New Query Language for Document Databases – Thunderbird & Evolution Usability Testing « Canonical Design –

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My shared links for July 6th: Computational science: …Error : Nature News – "…why scientific programming does not compute." I too have worked with large codebases from non-programmers. It can be difficult to tell a brilliant physicist that programming well is hard. After QED, nothing seems hard. Attachments.me – A nice interface to searching your [...]

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My shared links for June 30th to July 1st: WordPress for iOS – I didn't know this existed. Looks pretty nice. @hotdogsladies on the email charter idea – Circles: Facebook’s reality failure is Google+’s opportunity – He likes the ability to group people differently, something Facebook sort of has, but never made easy. I like [...]

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My shared links for June 29th through June 30th: Daring Fireball: Simple Inbox Archiving Script for Apple Mail – From 2007, John Gruber’s archiving applescript keeps his inbox clear of read, nonflagged items. (Apparently broken in Lion.) Sounds like this is manually invoked though. (update: it is.) Time to bake smart correction tools into news [...]

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My shared links for June 29th: Postbox 2.5 Now Available! — Postbox – Why is 64-bit support the first bullet point? Avoiding email bankruptcy (part 1) – Chuqui 3.0 – Part 1 of 2: learn to recognize that email takes time and block out time to deal with it Avoiding email bankruptcy (part 2) – [...]

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About 700 words on how a client should display old reference emails that you need to look at, but not reply to. I decide that all the current clients I tried don’t support this well, and I argue that they should.

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Link: Adam Engst on GMail at Tidbits The start of a 3-part series on GMail from Adam Engst. He was a long-time Eudora user, so it’s interesting to see how his workflow changed when he moved to such a different program. Also, as a journalist I’m sure he gets tons more email than average people, [...]

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Let’s talk some more email philosophy. An email client should help you quickly get through new emails, on your schedule, and turn them into whatever you need them to be once you’ve read them. Then it should shut up until you call it again. Again, I’ll point at Merlin Mann as my original inspiration, and [...]

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