hperrin

@hperrin@lemmy.world

I’m Hunter Perrin. I’m a software engineer.

I wrote an email service: port87.com

I write free software: github.com/sciactive

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hperrin,

That recoil is going to hurt.

hperrin,

My website proudly does not have tracking cookies. Well, once you get past the landing page to the actual app.

hperrin,

Iron Man?

hperrin,
  1. Mastodon
  2. Lemmy
  3. Idk, email?..
  4. …
  5. Porn

What things do you do while eating?

I have a terrible habit of watching Youtube while I eat, and then one video turns to ten and I’ve wasted the entire day. I’ve tried just not watching it while I eat, but JUST eating is so incredibly boring that I cave in and turn it on regardless. I can’t get any work done while eating either, since it takes me out of flow...

hperrin,

I listen to the hottest tech news while I eat my Bretfast.

hperrin,

Building a great mobile website is much harder than building a great mobile app, so I understand when they just don’t build a great website to begin with, but taking away an existing website, yeah, that sucks.

hperrin,

Yes.

hperrin,

Most apps would do fine without a website. Most everyone has a phone, but a fair number of people don’t have a desktop or laptop. And pretty much everyone who has a desktop or laptop also has a phone.

A number of currently popular apps don’t have a website, let alone a mobile friendly website.

hperrin,

Yes, that’s why I said most instead of all. And to be clear, I’m not a fan of apps without websites, that’s just how things are.

hperrin,

A webapp sometimes works fine for phone users. There are things that websites can’t do on mobile. For example, on iOS, only the latest OS version has support for push notifications from PWAs, and even then, they can’t make noise or vibrations. They are always delivered silently. PWAs are also always rendered with WebKit on iOS. WebKit doesn’t support a number of features.

Yes, a mobile app doesn’t help desktop users, but there are waaaaaaaay more mobile users than desktop users.

hperrin,

You’re talking about Cordova. Cordova can actually be pretty good, if it’s made well (for example, the Voyager Lemmy app is a Cordova app), but no, I make apps with native UIs.

hperrin,

I mean, for an email app, that’s kind of a big deal.

hperrin,

I like having noisy push notifications for certain emails. I apologize if that’s not ok.

Gamers who have gamed for a long time

do you find it difficult to get into games? I’ve got Epic Games and Steam Games libraries chock-full of classic top-tier games along with many other newer games like Stray or 2077, and a bunch of indie titles. I just can’t be bothered to download and install them, much less try to get into the characters and storylines. Used...

hperrin,

As I’ve gotten older and more busy, it’s been harder to get into games. I can’t play 4 hours a day any more, so the game has to fit into my schedule. Plus a lot of games take like 60 hours now. I liked Stray a lot because it was fun and I beat it in like 3 hours.

So yeah, I feel pretty much the same.

hperrin,

Also it’s Domino’s.

hperrin,

Are you dumping your “Firefox Memes” folder or something?

hperrin,

If The Onion wanted to be even more true to life, instead of some guy, they should have shown a corporate office.

hperrin,

Why not? It’s delicious and plentiful.

hperrin,

It depends on the species, but most edible seaweed is quite healthy for you.

hperrin,

Jokes on you, I’m poor and cheap.

hperrin,

port87.com

An email service that uses addresses like yourname-appname@port87.com to organize all your email into a folder for every app/service.

You can also make these addresses screen senders before their email goes through, for something like yourname-friends@port87.com.

You can mark them as public and they’ll be included in a list if someone emails the bare address (yourname@port87.com), so you can share your bare address all over the internet without getting spam.

(Full disclosure: I created and operate this service.)

hperrin,

You only get one shot. Do not miss your chance to bathe. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, Dave.

hperrin,

I don’t have it on the promotional site right now, but here’s the breakdown:

  • Receive unlimited mail, 500MB storage: Free
  • Send unlimited mail*: $1/month
  • 2GB extra: $2/month
  • 10GB extra: $6/month
  • 20GB extra: $10/month
  • 100GB extra: $20/month
  • 1TB extra: $40/month

There are upcoming features that I haven’t done the market research and cost analysis for yet to determine pricing, but these are the features that are still in development:

  • Native mobile app (right now it’s a PWA): Free
  • IMAP/SMTP/CardDAV for third party clients and to import/export/sync: Undetermined price
  • Custom domain with unlimited addresses: Undetermined price
  • Additional users for you custom domain: Undetermined price
  • The reason for charging $1/month to send email is so that spammers won’t use my service to send spam. A spammer is very unlikely to divulge their real payment information.
hperrin,

I feel you. Technically, the service is in a public beta test, only because I don’t have all the features complete yet.

I have the IMAP spec printed out in a binder at my desk. I have to write the server myself because of how Port87 works (I can’t just use an off-the-shelf server, like Dovecot). But I’m working hard to get IMAP support out soon! :)

PS: also, once I do write it, the IMAP server will be open source, just like the CardDAV server I’m working on.

hperrin,

Are we talking volumetric capybaras or massive capybaras?

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