3r7j6qzi9jvnve 9 hours ago

This just polls every x (default 30) seconds; if you use IMAP you can do better with IDLE (e.g. I pipe `fetchmail --check` to something that triggers a sync to immediately get new mails)

  • _flux 7 hours ago

    I wonder though if also the Gmail interface supports something like this? It seems it's pretty fast at receiving email.

    • dataflow 6 hours ago

      There are pub/sub notifications but it's a bit of a pain to get working. You need an HTTP endpoint the server can reach for push notifications, I think, not long polling.

      • kevincox an hour ago

        The GMail web client definitely doesn't create an HTTP endpoint to receive updates. But the API it uses is likely proprietary and private (even if it was built on top of the public API there would be a backend bridging the two)

        • dataflow an hour ago

          Sorry, yes, my comment was confusing. I was answering the "how do I get faster notifications in a supported manner" part rather than the "how does the Gmail web UI do this" part.

love2read 9 hours ago

What tool makes these readme’s for new github repos that are bulletpointed lists with features, always prefixed by an emoji?

  • sunrunner 2 hours ago

    I think this trend has been around for a while now (it started to become more noticable for me at least a couple of years ago).

    At first there seemed to be a correlation between how 'cool' the project was and the number of emoji, but now it seems like it's as expected as just having a README itself.

    I've definitely seen _more_ decorated READMEs, and I can't help but feel like there's an inverse correlation between emoji count and readability.

  • diggan 5 hours ago

    Not specifically about readmes/GitHub repos, but I've noticed some LLMs like Sonnet and GPT4.1 are really enthusiastic about doing emoji-prefixed lists for some reason.

    • dewey 4 hours ago

      Trained on too many JS libraries.

  • edm0nd 8 hours ago

    Layer 8 autism

  • bravesoul2 7 hours ago

    Tool is an insult when applied to a human...

  • yapyap 8 hours ago

    AI, I presume (but I’m not sure) that the code “agent” they are using creates it.

nathants 3 hours ago

Just have SES put the email in s3, then do stuff.

worldsayshi 5 hours ago

Is there any good library or tool that let's me programmatically/easily or semi-automatically delete mail by query in gmail? The built in tools are not good enough. Does Thunderbird work with gmail nowadays?

basemi 9 hours ago

If I read it right, it's built on Gmail API

Are there any other provider agnostic tools with similar capabilities?

  • szszrk 8 hours ago

    I guess JMAP was created to also deal with this. I'm not sure how far are we in implementation on clients side.

    https://jmap.io/spec.html

    • MangoToupe an hour ago

      I can't imagine google ever supporting something that useful.

nisegami 3 hours ago

One step closer to fully closing the loop on using LLMs to automate white collar work.