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Build a ChatGPT-Style Email Plugin

Here's how the story usually goes. Saturday afternoon, you wire a language model to a mailbox for the first time. You type "summarize my unread mail" and watch it actually happen — the model scans, picks out the thread from your landlord, nails the summary. Magic. Sunday morning, drunk on possibility, you add a send capability. Sunday evening, you're reading a transcript where a newsletter's footer text nearly convinced the model to forward something it shouldn't, and you quietly remove the send

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Inbox Zero, but the Inbox Belongs to a Robot

8:30 AM: you kick off the inbox-zero loop while the coffee brews. 8:35 AM: yesterday's 50 unread messages are sorted into four buckets, replies are drafted for the ones that matter, the noise is archived, and you've approved the lot with a few keystrokes. The rest of the day, the inbox only contains new mail. That's the daily rhythm an email agent can sustain — and the daily part is the whole trick. Inbox zero has never been hard to reach once; it's hard to keep, because the maintenance is borin

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Import Email Signatures Into Your CRM With an Agent

Email signatures are the most valuable dataset your CRM is throwing away. Roughly 82% of business email carries a signature with at least a name and title — and usually a phone number, a LinkedIn URL, a company name, sometimes a whole org-chart hint. That's structured data masquerading as prose, delivered free with every message, and most platforms scroll right past it. You don't need a data vendor or even an LLM to harvest it. A few hundred lines of regex, a cross-referencing trick, and a dedic

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Algebraic Types? Type Geometry? How Far Can a Language Be Pushed? Compile-Time Execution, Relational Interfaces, and More

Flux is a compiled, stack-first, general-purpose language with a refreshingly direct philosophy: you own your memory, you write your intent, and the compiler takes you seriously. If you haven't looked at it in a while - or at all - now is a great time to pay attention. Compile-Time Execution with comptime This is the headline feature. Flux can now execute Flux at compile time, powered by a dedicated VM built specifically for this purpose. The same VM will also power the upcoming REPL. The model

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skillscore: a CLI that scores your AI agent's SKILL.md 0–100

A vague AI agent skill is worse than no skill at all — because the agent pays for it in context budget on every single turn, whether it uses it or not. Yet most of us write SKILL.md files by feel and ship them with zero feedback. So I built skillscore: a command-line tool that statically analyzes any SKILL.md and gives it a 0–100 quality score, a letter grade, and a list of fix-it findings — each one citing the official authoring guide it comes from. skillscore is an open-source Dart CLI that li

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Perfect Is the Enemy of Done — and I Learned That the Hard Way

I had something that worked. It wasn't pretty. There were rough edges. A few things I wanted to clean up before anyone saw it. So I kept going. Three weeks later I was still cleaning things up. The feature I was going to add after launch somehow became a requirement before launch. The design that was good enough somehow needed one more pass. The thing that worked fine somehow needed to be rebuilt the right way before I could feel okay about shipping it. Nobody asked for any of that. I did it to

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DynamoDB and SQS containers with Docker Compose

Docker Compose facilitates spinning up local AWS-compatible services without an AWS account. This post covers DynamoDB Local for key-value storage and ElasticMQ for an SQS-compatible message queue. A common pattern is to persist state in DynamoDB and notify workers through SQS. Docker Compose installed The following configuration spins up DynamoDB Local, DynamoDB Admin, ElasticMQ, and the ElasticMQ UI. Connection details: DynamoDB endpoint: http://localhost:8000 SQS endpoint: http://localhost:9

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