Phillip Caudell @phill@mastodon.notsobig.co

Night time riding 🌃

So uhhh. Let's say you have an app that uses Passkeys exclusively….how do I provide a login to App Review? 🤨

You can say you’ve got the price wrong — that’s fine! — but if you’re taking an ideological position that all subscriptions are inherently wrong (and subsequently review bomb any dev who has the audacity of creating a viable business), well, you’re not a serious person.

The people who complain about subs are always disproportionately louder than those who have zero problem paying a fair price for something they enjoy using.

I know this, because I see it in my sales vs reviews!

People are still debating app subscriptions in 2023?

💀

A protocol that can immediately and irreversibly delete my emails, just from the simple act of checking if I have any…wow, that’s powerful stuff

Yeh the Gmail API is cool and all, but you know what’s cooler?

POP3

Extremely serious logging

👁️👄👁️

Sheety serves up 56 GB of *text* every 24 hours now.

Hey, I think I’m getting the hang of this web services thing!

https://sheety.co passed 70,000 users today 🎉

To all my Sheety customers: thank you for funding Big Mail

If I gave the compiler anymore context I'd be giving it the assembly

"Let me just do a quick refactor and make some of these functions generics"

tYpE Of eXpReSsIoN Is aMbIgUoUs wItHoUt mOrE CoNtExT

Me: I should do something Apple will never do

Everyone: NO NOT LIKE THAT

There is one particular feature in Big Mail 2, that is so unbelievably stupid, I cannot believe I'm actually gonna ship it.

Live your dreams people! ✉️🪓

Another day, another IMAP server makes the naughty list.

Server: “Hey, I can totally do that!”

Big Mail: "Okay great, here’s that command!”

Server: “WOAH HOLD UP WHAT THE HELL IS THIS??”

Unified labels across Gmail and iCloud?

“How much money have you invested into this app now?”

Me:

Baby where we’re going, we don’t need grids