brongondwana

8 ms·

61.
by brongondwana 2y ago
Obviously :) We're just the best! More: Fastmail is a bunch of techies who really enjoy working with email and unlike a lot of the big companies we have a core of people who've been doing this stuff for 20 years, but are also kee
62.
by brongondwana 2y ago
You cite a 5 year old post. We have improved things since then. You can't spoof other people through Fastmail any more, we verify permission to send as any address - either through your account owning the domain or alias - or by auth
63.
by brongondwana 2y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the kind words. I'm very agreeable; mostly. And quite likeable! Also keen to see JMAP more widely out there of course, we're plugging away at getting Calendar and Contacts into JMAP over at IETF now. Slowly
64.
by brongondwana 2y ago
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon loaded with tapes. Arguably, your position is bogus. Why cause a bunch of extra copying around to move a server. "Back up" indeed - to what? Another disk? It's turtles a
65.
by brongondwana 2y ago
I've just been poking around at the Dropbox APIs recently when I got so frustrated by the fact that the Fastmail "attach from Dropbox" feature has been loading directly into my personal files space rather than showing the sha
66.
by brongondwana 2y ago
Yeah, this is a common request :) I've added your prod to the "this is common" data
67.
by brongondwana 2y ago
Ctrl-D to format the selected text as monospace in the Fastmail composer is pretty nice - I use it often for sending bits of log line or terminal output when writing up incidents or describing how to do something.
68.
by brongondwana 2y ago
Huh? You can paste if you have an image in your buffer, or drag-drop image files into an email in the Fastmail composer. I paste images into emails from screenshots almost every day. (I'll take this report as a "we need to make
69.
by brongondwana 3y ago
I would extend Rule 6 much more into Rule 7 - if you're returning an id which is numeric, prefix it with a non-number, so it won't get accidentally converted to a number. This has been a particular pain with Perl (yes, it's
70.
by brongondwana 3y ago
Your comment here is factually incorrect - the "X-Resolved-To" will not be present anywhere in the email if you Reply, or with a regular Forward. It will only be present if you "Forward as Attachment" an email which was
71.
by brongondwana 3y ago
If the timezone name changes, chances are I no longer want to meet at 6pm in London in 10 years' time without double-checking a few things.
72.
by brongondwana 3y ago
Ooh, that's obnoxious, you're being routed the long way around the world because the closest cloudflare entry point is Singapore, by the looks of things. It's not massively worse than what I get from here: 11. 103.168.172.63
73.
by brongondwana 3y ago
We don't control those databases. I've tried to update them. We're very clear about where our servers are. We switched to those IPs from a range which was owned by our old datacenter and we were continuing to lease, to give
74.
by brongondwana 3y ago
Yeah, that is pretty painful - how does it compare to other sites in the USA? I'd be interested in seeing a traceroute. JMAP is designed to be pretty good in that situation (we're in Australia and ~280ms away from our primary d
75.
by brongondwana 3y ago
Yeah it's registered and owned in Australia, but routing to the USA. I've tried updating what I can with geolocation databases. Interestingly this is fun for the IETF's netblock, which usually geolocates my phone to the prev
76.
by brongondwana 3y ago
We're there because it's where we've found reliable enough remote hands and network. And yes, the thread model of "the USA goes off the internet" is bad enough that we figure things are much worse than us being muc
77.
by brongondwana 3y ago
Perfectly legitimate question - and I don't think you should have been downvoted for asking. We're entirely funded by our customers, and fully self-bootstrapped. We have no debts to outside parties. We have 8 owners, 7 of which w
78.
by brongondwana 3y ago
Also, every website would have to have a way to do this. That's a massive bootstrapping effort that, you can't change every website in the world very easily, there'd have to be a very massive advantage for them. I don'
79.
by brongondwana 3y ago
Back in 2001-ish, looking for a rental house with good public transport. Screen scraped the entire realestate.com.au database overnight, then fed the addresses into some mapping API that gave me coordinates, and caluclated the distance fro
80.
by brongondwana 4y ago
Yep, you can apply for a fee waiver if that's a significant challenge, but this org costs quite a lot to run (there's quite a big staff keeping the meeting running). Having said that, the pricing for remote participants is current
81.
by brongondwana 4y ago
The MIMI working group is meeting at IETF116 in Yokohama RIGHT NOW. I'm sitting in the meeting. There's a live audio stream at https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/mimi/meetings/ or the video will be
82.
by brongondwana 4y ago
Interesting that he identifies three things and then comments on the two which really ARE obviously true long term and not on the third which is much more debatable. When I go to Amazon I'd often prefer a smaller selection of items for
83.
by brongondwana 4y ago
Cyrusimap has support for all three of these baked in as well, and we really don't make as much of a big deal of it as we should. (and of course: JMAP Calendars/Contacts/Files(eventually) will replace all that, we hope!)
84.
by brongondwana 4y ago
I had some Perl at a previous job which would produce a multi-thousand line SQL statement that was pasted into a phppgadmin screen to get a data set out. Awful workaround but it was smooth and fast. Very nice db to work with
85.
by brongondwana 4y ago
This is highly frustrating and it sucks. Also Google is totally doing the right thing here. The slow down and wait is precisely the thing that protects you from identity theft if somebody waits until your phone is turned off, clones your S
86.
by brongondwana 4y ago
The thing that worked for me was time restriction. I can't reliably count calories but I can quite easily look at the clock and decide whether it's feeding hours or fasting hours. Doesn't make it easy, but made it possible.
87.
by brongondwana 4y ago
I have more faith in JMAP's eventual success than you do, but I do agree that it's frustratingly slow. We knew that adoption would be frustrating slow of course, but I do hope that in 3 years' time we'll have a much bet
88.
by brongondwana 4y ago
Hey, I love IMAP. For all its faults it is pretty powerful and good. I've spent a lot of time on it, but the reasons that JMAP was developed still exist and are still valid :)
89.
by brongondwana 4y ago
Thanks for the callout :) I'm not doing so much development on Cyrus any more - I still attend the weekly team meetings and do code and design review, but trying to keep my focus more on company operations and standardisation work. JM
90.
by brongondwana 4y ago
Not really, you'd just encourage people to convert to a secondary chat channel (whatsapp, snapchat, text, whatever is popular locally) and then drop their match on the app.

More ›