Phillip Caudell @phill@mastodon.notsobig.co

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

Me: Hmm, I’m struggling to align this unread indicator, let’s see how Apple does it in Mail

Apple Mail:

This concludes this morning's stream of consciousness.

Tune in tomorrow!

Writing these packages has also been a fun exercise in how to design APIs now that we have concurrency.

For example, subscribing to IMAP idles (pushed events), I borrowed the 'updates' pattern used in the new StoreKit 2 API. It's an AsyncStream that just runs forever, and gets iterated over when new events occur.

Big Mail 2, nay, ALL my apps, wouldn't be possible if it weren't for the generous contributions of others in the OS community.

I can't wait to give back, so that's why I plan to open source all of Big Mail's core packages: SwiftIMAP, SwiftSMTP, and SwiftEmail.

They're all super Swifty, modern, and hopefully instantly familiar to anyone who's used Foundation. #Swift