lkbmApr 2022Strongly recommends
I've always loved the "Email Hates The Living" talk[0] and am sad it's not available in higher quality. This is a great alternative. [0] ▶ this video
in “Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)” · View on HN
Email Hates the Living
Email Hates the Living on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2015–2022.
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A lightning-style conference talk by Ricardo Signes about the horrors of email: its protocols, formats and decades of accumulated quirks. It is delivered with a humorous horror theme to show why handling email correctly is harder than it looks.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it whenever someone underestimates how hard email parsing, validation or building a mail client really is.
- people recommended it
- 3
- separate months
- 3
- strong recommendations
- 1
- discussed on HN
- 2015–2022
“If you want to read about the insanity behind some of the protocols watch that talk.”
What HN commenters said
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
calvinmorrisonAug 2022Recommends
Here's a talk from one of the heads of Fastmail: "Email Hates the Living" ▶ this video Email itself is a very weird quirk filled system. If you want to read about the insanity behind some of the protocols watch that talk. That's why things like JMAP are being developed.
in “Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving” · View on HN
clscottDec 2015Recommends
This is an interesting read, when I saw a few of the comments here ask "how hard can it be?" I was reminded of this presentation by Rik Signes at YAPC::NA (2008) Email Hates the Living ▶ this video
in “Email made me miserable, so I decided to build my own email app from scratch” · View on HN