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How To Survive a Ground-Up Rewrite Without Losing Your Sanity

Developers tend to spectacularly underestimate the effort involved in such a rewrite (more on that below), and spectacularly overestimate the value generated (more on that below, as well).

Actions in Gmail

I think this is the greatest innovation in web-based email since Gmail’s own release of large mailboxes (what was it? 1 GB?). Web mail has all the benefits of a website, but offers greater contextual focus. Adding specific actions to message has been a possible with extensions and plugins for a long time, but those were traditionally added by the recipient. Giving such power to the sender is quite interesting.

Of course, there will be a variety of misuses – spam, phishing, etc – but, I’m sure there will be an even greater variety of useful functionality. Like this “Send money with Gmail” example. Here is more information on what’s possible.

Trello – organize anything, together

One day, I’ll grow up enough to use an organization tool. This one will probably be it.

Sendy – Amazon SES-based bulk email software

Sendy is a self hosted email newsletter application that lets you send trackable emails via Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). This makes it possible for you to send authenticated bulk emails at an insanely low price without sacrificing deliverability.