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 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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The Postbox team posted another tease for their upcoming redesign in version 2.5, this time the new message view. I’m not going to re-post all of these, but I thought this one was worth pointing out because it shows some of the thinking behind the changes – and hints at an interesting design principle: Detail [...]

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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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About a year ago, I decided to start a separate blog called ‘mikechecksmail’ on Tumblr to talk about the details of mail clients on OS X. I posted a few real articles there, then let things sit for a while as a dissertation, a new house, and a new baby have taken up my free [...]

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I think the less an email application does the better — feature-rich ones only encourage users to move in. I’d rather spend my time somewhere else. from nerdgap.com

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Link: A quick note about Mobile Me Mail beta Apple’s Mobile Me mail – a webmail that always struck me as trying too hard to be like a desktop mail client – has been re-designed, and it added two features that I completely agree with in a mail client – widescreen view (a message should [...]

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I have a minor obsession with email clients. I’m fascinated with how people use email and how clients have (and haven’t) evolved over the last 40 years. So, I started a separate blog on Tumblr to explore email clients, called mike checks mail. The idea is to look at clients available now on OS X, [...]

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