2015
- On being spammed for being interested
The amount of personal data that we give away these days is insane. It’s true of a huge number of online services that “free isn’t free”, and that your personal data is the virtual currency by which you’re able to use so many great services for “free”.
2013
- Migrating from Outlook .pst to mbox and then uploading to an IMAP mail server
Microsoft Outlook uses a stupid/proprietary format to store mail locally. This is the burden I had to deal with recently while attempting to rescue mail from a friends dying computer.
- Adventures in IMAP: Migrating lots of mail to Atmail
Besides my day job as a front-end developer at 2degrees, I run my own web design company with my partner, called Marmalade & Jam. When launching Marmalade & Jam, I decided to go with 123-reg as I needed a quick way to get everything up and running, and at the time they seemed like a good deal.
2012
- High fidelity in low fidelity emails
Recently it was pointed out to me that Pizza Express provide a nice fallback for photos on their picture-heavy emails. Take the following example, from a promotional email they sent out earlier this year: