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   by bengotow 9y ago

   This is definitely your best bet. Were you using an iPhone or an iPod Touch in that time window? Maybe iTunes still has a backup of the device in its backups folder? If you were using Mail.app, also check your Mac's Mail Downloads fold
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   by bengotow 9y ago

   Well, the author seems thoughtful, but I'm sure he's seeking replies on the mailing list. You could propose something else!
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   by bengotow 9y ago

   Ahh thanks I need to update that! Originally Nylas Mail was OSS, but tied to the Nylas Cloud APIs (which did the actual mail processing.) The cloud strategy was too expensive, and in version 2.0 the entire mail-sync system was moved into th
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   by bengotow 9y ago

   Ahh I see! Sorry, I totally misread your message. Wow, that's a rough situation... If things get really bad, I think you could use a HTTPS proxy like Charles ( https://www.charlesproxy.com/ ) to decrypt the traffic and r
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   by bengotow 9y ago

   Yep! Electron essentially just launches a web app from a directory on disk in an included copy of Chromium, with NodeJS's JavaScript bindings as well as the usual ones. The web app has an index.html, CSS, all the standard stuff. It&#x2
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   by bengotow 9y ago

   Well, the web is evolving. If you're a sysadmin and you test everything in an ancient version of Firefox that doesn't display SSL errors, you're not getting an accurate picture of what the product's users will see. The l
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   by bengotow 9y ago

   Hmm, I thought Mozilla had pulled financial support from Thunderbird? This would be an exciting new chapter for the product, but the article doesn't address whether it makes financial sense for Mozilla to invest this much in Thunderbir
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   by bengotow 10y ago

   But... isn't this correct? I wouldn't want my machine falling asleep while on a conference call, so preventing sleep is a good thing?
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   by bengotow 10y ago

   Ahh wow thanks for the info - I didn't think about the dot replies. That's actually a real bummer...
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    by bengotow 10y ago

    There's a lot of hate circulating around my Twitter feed this morning because of this, but I think it makes perfect sense. New users signing up for Twitter have to get longer usernames - everything else is taken. Then, when they try to
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    by bengotow 10y ago

    This is a great deep-dive into the GUI approaches taken by some nice cross-platform apps, but the author seems to have decided early on to ignore web technologies. It would have been nice to see an Adobe UI broken down, or Spotify, or Steam
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    by bengotow 10y ago

    This is awesome! Color scheme is very strange though. I live in SF, and I imagine if you surveyed folks on the street, everyone would tell you blue is a "safer" color than orange. Maybe it could follow the Google Maps standard—gre
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    by bengotow 10y ago

    I'd highly recommend checking out Nylas N1 ( https://github.com/Nylas/N1 ). It's beautiful, cross platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) and extensible via a plugin architecture borrowed from Atom. Nylas is currently w
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    by bengotow 10y ago

    This looks cool! We actually built something conceptually similar to this for the Nylas N1 mail client ( https://github.com/Nylas/N1 ) and open sourced it with an (unfortunately) very similar name: https://git
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    by bengotow 10y ago

    I think it's fine for the Android team to take this approach like so many framework authors before them. I think the problem is that Android developers are seeking patterns and prescriptivist documentation because that's what many
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    by bengotow 10y ago

    I think it's easy to argue about tools, but take a look at popular desktop apps these days: Slack, Atom, VSCode, Spotify, WhatsApp Desktop... they're all built on Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework. It seems the community
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    by bengotow 10y ago

    Honestly, I think JavaScript was just in the right place at the right time. If you haven't seen ES2016 yet though, it's really worth a look. Electron JavaScript isn't the jQuery crap of the 1990's. It's got destruct
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    by bengotow 10y ago

    There are a couple of things to consider: 1. Electron is not necessarily the best choice if all you want to do is "put your website in the Dock." In Electron, JavaScript on the page can do anything native code could do, like write
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    by bengotow 10y ago

    I've been building on Electron for the last 18 months (@Nylas), and it's really impressive how far it's come in the last year. Coming from native Mac OS X development, Electron is an breath of fresh air. There's an incre
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    by bengotow 11y ago

    Man, that's depressing. It's fairly easy to prevent this particular kind of injection—you just have to add a Content Security Policy to the HTML page. The appropriate value for web pages running from file://, with no exp
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    by bengotow 11y ago

    Ahh the DOS days are long gone I'm afraid... A single 1024x1024 app icon on Mac OS X weighs in at 4MB once it's inflated to raw bitmap data from ICNS / PNG. Throw a couple of those onscreen at once in a list and you're l
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    by bengotow 11y ago

    I don't think you're intended to build it from source - you can just get a binary: https://github.com/appetizermonster/Hain/releases
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    by bengotow 11y ago

    Finally. Let's just hope it doesn't email you when someone leave's a +1 reaction.
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    by bengotow 11y ago

    I don't think this is a dealbreaker for 99% of people. I currently use Tower ( https://www.git-tower.com/ ), a closed-source Mac Git client that costs $70. It's beautiful, it speeds up my work day to day, and it&#x2
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    by bengotow 11y ago

    I'm afraid Hackpad is also dead—Dropbox open sourced it, and no one has touched it since October: https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad
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    by bengotow 11y ago

    This is awesome—I use Mou right now, but going to try switching to this for a while. This really highlights the need to create some sort of shared library from Electron's core, though. I've probably got a half dozen copies of Chro
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    by bengotow 11y ago

    Man it's great to see effort being put into a platform-sensitive React component set. We've been working on React components for N1, and it'd be cool to swap them out for an open source set one day. The thing is, I'm not
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    by bengotow 11y ago

    Hey folks! Ben from Nylas here - I've been working on N1. Happy to answer any questions! We're excited to be open sourcing the client, and I can't wait to see what folks do with the plugin system.
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    by bengotow 11y ago

    Hey kstenerud, Thanks for checking out N1! I work on the client. Unfortunately `keytar` is a bit of a nasty module. Try using `nvm` to run script/bootstrap with Node 10.x. I think this might be the issue you're seeing: https:&#x2
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    by bengotow 11y ago

    Hey! I'm an engineer on N1 and I can talk about (1) and (3): 1. Snoozing emails would be great. You could totally do this client-side in a plugin using our current developer APIs, by moving snoozed threads to a label/folder, and t