Most apps tell the user to check this and that when there's a network problem, any network problem. The web browsers I've seen offer the same evasive blah-blah for any problem except a failing TLS certificate. I have an app that's mine alone, though. It shares my values and its behaviour is guided by my pet peeves, including being annoyed by messages that just say can't reach server . So for it I…
I was searching for something else when a really old mail message caught my eye. It was a message from dtrump@tpalace.com , with whom I was not previously familiar. That dtrump address sent me two messages in July and August 1997, both about an income opportunity with which I could get rich . I'm not sure the messages are genuine. They're unsigned, of course, and the chain of Received fields is…
I buy less and less hardware as time passes. But I couldn't resist the See.sense Icon3 bike rear light. It's really, really bright and has fancy features: It should be able to brighten when a car approaches from behind, answering the car's headlights as it were, without wearing out its battery. The light charges via USB C, badly. None of my cables can charge it from a USB C port, it only charges…
I implemented the IMAP UIDONLY extension in Archiveopteryx a while ago. A couple of notes: It was really simple ; two lines of code changed to six lines starting at line 1154, plus a few lines to announce the extension etc. It didn't bring any any performance improvement, because generating the EXISTS response is mandatory. With UIDONLY Archiveopteryx counts messages in order to report how many…
There's so much new text on the web that the valuable old writing is difficult to find. I know that Ali Davis wrote an excellent description of various kinds of answers, with a very lucid example of how some answers open the space of possible conversations and others restrict it. I'm 99% sure she posted it to improvisation.ws, and while archive.org has others of her postings, that one is gone and…