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Isn't the search bad because they can't search email contents? As long as the term is somewhere in the metadata (title, sender email, sender name) it seems to work ok.

I agree though that the user experience isn't great because of this limitation. You kind of have to remember what the title of the email was for what you're looking for. Searching for "flight ticket" results in mixed success


They can search contents. You have to activate local indexing in the search UI itself.


The indexing needs to be refreshed almost every time I use it.


That's weird, I never had to do that. Android and firefox web.


100%. I didn't mean this to be a "woe is me" piece, despite the clickbait-y title. I just wanted to talk about the merits of publishing your writing without any actual readers. And some lessons on writing I've picked up.


I do it. I write[0], because it helps me to understand stuff better (tutorials), or because I work on "gut instinct," a lot, and writing it in a manner that explains it, forces me to "formalize" things.

My stuff is too TL;DR, for most folks, these days.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany


completely agree


yea, I'm not saying there's no place for that phrase ever. But overusing it was a bad habit of mine and it ends up being unnecessary filler. My wording there was a bit exaggerated.


TG;DR?


*Homer Sapiens


I thought this was an Onion article. Wow.


this. They don't even do an exact string match of the artist name, the reason why I can't fathom. I could make a new artist account named "drake" (lowercase d) today and probably show up in a million Release Radar playlists by next week.


it's a reference point? The article isn't comparing to some platonic ideal of what men's testosterone levels should be...it's just pointing out a statistically significant decrease in those levels over a period of 20 years


https://thejoeflow.com/blog

I write about...books. I don't think there's much point to reading it unless you've already read the book I'm talking about.

I mostly do it because I found I use to read books and then never talk about them or think about them afterwards so I would just forget about the book after a little while. I figured that writing something down about the book would help clarify my thoughts on it and I could remember it better.

I also wanted to build something with spring boot and kotlin so this was it.


Is there anywhere on your site where I can see a complete list of your reviews in one place? I like your essays, I occasionally do the same thing and I think it has made me a more attentive reader.


No - unfortunately you can only do so by clicking on the "Archive" dropdown and browsing through the years/months...something I will add soon though!

Appreciate the feedback


I ended up implementing a primitive tag cloud[0] to keep track of different topics.

[0] https://sheep.horse/tagcloud.html#book


That's a nice feature. I would also have to start tagging my posts I guess haha.


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