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March 20, 2026Email was into agents before they were cool
March 7, 2026How to send email to space
February 27, 2026Should we bring back email exploders?
February 6, 2026Forwarding an email is not always straightforward
January 2, 2026Bang paths, source routing, and how email trips were planned
November 1, 2025NaNoWriMo and the creative power of looming fear
October 3, 2025The ChatGPT for music that launched in 1994
September 5, 2025The story of how RSS beat Microsoft
August 28, 2025Leave The Grateful Dead out of it
August 8, 2025Email signatures and the power of defaults
July 28, 2025A plaintext subject line is all email has ever needed
July 25, 2025The subtle art of email forensics
July 17, 2025Email's fingerprints are everywhere you look
July 3, 2025The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails
June 26, 2025Gmail's shortcuts come from a 1976 keyboard layout
June 13, 2025How email tracking works behind the scenes
June 3, 2025The legendary email client power users wouldn't let die
May 16, 2025Markdown is unformatted formatting
May 9, 2025E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper
May 2, 2025Attachments helped email go global
April 11, 2025AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive.
March 28, 2025On hacker wordplay and fossilized poetry
March 27, 2025A brief history of all the times email was supposed to die
February 18, 2025How email came to be
February 7, 2025Mail merge started on a $10,000 IBM typewriter
January 24, 2025The double opt-in story
January 7, 2025Short boughs, long vintage, and email
June 14, 2024In praise of zines- June 22, 2023The reply loop
- April 13, 2023What Murakami tells us about focus