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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 28/12/2025

Wait, what do you mean I can ask Claude Code to take baseline memory snapshots of my app, run a bunch of operations, take another snapshot, find memory leaks, and link them back to the exact code paths causing objects to stick around? 🙀

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 11/10/2025

After 17 years of being Mac-only, I got a Windows laptop as a second device. What are the mandatory apps to install these days?

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 10/10/2025

Modern software development - just run your agents whenever you have a few minutes of free time

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 24/09/2025

Currently debugging EmailEngine with a Zimbra mail server. Strange detail: before authentication, it identifies as Dovecot, after authentication as Zimbra. But there’s no mention of Dovecot in their open-source licenses 🤔 Is Zimbra disguising itself as Dovecot?

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 11/08/2025

Oh wow, so meta. I asked Claude Code to generate a release script that checks the actual diff between releases and then asks itself (via Claude CLI) to write the release notes. Now I can keep using commit messages like “update” without ending up with messy release notes.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 06/08/2025

Just sitting around doing nothing, waiting two hours for my Claude limit to reset 🥴

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 23/07/2025

After a month of vibe coding with Claude Opus 4, I can’t imagine going back. It’s like when I first started using a code formatter: I also can’t imagine going back to manually formatting code with spaces and tabs.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 08/07/2025

Some of the strangest IMAP bugs seem to come from the large Asian mail providers. Just added a workaround to EmailEngine for a bug in Lark Mail, ByteDance’s managed mail service. I’m guessing it’s because most of their users access email via the web interface, not IMAP.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 22/06/2025

Managed to bypass the stupid canvas thing in ChatGPT to get my document printed out directly to chat

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 23/05/2025

My open-source project Nodemailer reached a million downloads per day this week and it is still accelerating 😱 Am I now a downloads-millionaire 🤔

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 04/05/2025

Spent almost all my ChatGPT O3 requests, but finally managed to migrate Nodemailer.com from Hugo to Docusaurus

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Nodemailer | Nodemailer

Send e-mails with Node.JS – easy as cake! ✉️

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 22/02/2025

The main reason EmailEngine.app processes and lists emails so quickly is that it primarily operates with the BODYSTRUCTURE value. It doesn’t download or parse emails fully - only the minimally required MIME parts. Just like regular email clients.

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EmailEngine Email API

Streamline email integration for your app or service with a unified REST API that seamlessly connects with IMAP, SMTP, Gmail API, and Microsoft Graph API

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 13/02/2025

And by a scammer, I mean suspicious accounts, most probably spammers looking for new channels to send their spam from. EmailEngine is not a service and can not be used to send spam, but these people are illiterate or something; they tend to buy anything that is even remotely email-sending related.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 13/02/2025

After 3 weeks of testing, I considered the pricing changes a failure and rolled back previous plans. The only people who tried to sign up for the monthly plan were obvious scammers, and I had to block several payment attempts to avoid future chargebacks. The yearly-plan-only setup is much calmer.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 03/02/2025

I attended almost all the modern email and API talks at FOSDEM—still recovering from all that sitting. The highlight for me was an unexpected mention of my EmailEngine project!

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 27/01/2025

I will be at FOSDEM this weekend, mostly to attend the modern email track. Usually would listen these talks online but this time decided to go on person.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 27/01/2025

Now that my one-person, bootstrapped startup has reached $10k MRR, I’m finally ready to experiment with pricing. Until now, EmailEngine was only offered as an annual subscription, but I’ve just introduced a monthly option - mainly to hide away the price increase on yearly plans 🫣

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 24/01/2025

TIL, reusing JavScript TextDecoder objects is not a good idea. It works most of the time, but when dealing with shifting encodings like ISO-2022-JP, things get messy. The TextDecoder object seems to remember the last shift, resulting in an invalid first character when decoding the next payload.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 20/01/2025

This is completely bonkers, I’ve been building the nodemailer library for 15 years and it is still gaining momentum. Daily downloads are starting to reach 800 000 😱

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 17/01/2025

I was finally forced to add rate limiting to Ethereal.email after some schmuck flooded the system with 6 000 000 emails in a short period of time. So far, there were no limitations at all.

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Ethereal Email

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 07/01/2025

Finally reached the post-game heaven realm in Dragon Quest III re-make 🗺️

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 07/01/2025

Working with MS Graph API for email messages feels like working with the arcane. You think something is not possible but then, by applying some bitwise OR integers, it suddenly is 🤷‍♂️

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 06/01/2025

I added a new configuration option to Postal-Mime, my email parsing library for front-end/web-workers/serverless, to return attachments not as ArrayBuffer values but as base64 encoded strings. This allows to JSON-stringify the entire parsed email structure. github.com/postalsys/po...

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GitHub - postalsys/postal-mime: Email parser for browser and serverless environments

Email parser for browser and serverless environments - postalsys/postal-mime

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 29/12/2024

I’ve been using MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16GB for the past 3 years and I still don’t see a single reason to upgrade. Maybe if I used virtual machines a lot but I don’t 🤔

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 26/12/2024

Is this validation? A random person listed EmailEngine next to well-known software 🤓

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 21/12/2024

I haven’t really played JRPG games before (except Pokemon games), but after completing Octopath Traveler 2, I’ve been getting into it. Currently playing the Dragon Quest 3 remake and having tons of fun with it.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 17/12/2024

TIL: If your business makes over $10k and you’re a cheapskate like me, you can still use ChartMogul without a paid plan—just stick to the mobile app. It works even without a subscription 😅

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 15/12/2024

Downloadable software without a service means that I do not have to be available 24/7. It also weeds out users who would need too much support (harder to start using than with a SaaS). Yearly subscription means that I get the money up front. So in my case bootstrapping was the calm option.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 15/12/2024

When I hit 40 I quit being a co-founder of a VC funded startup and started bootstrapping. I had runway for 1 year but I already had a product concept with some paying customers so I knew there was a market for it. I did not do SaaS but downloadable B2B software with yearly subscription pricing.

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Ant Stanley @iamstan.dev · 12/12/2024

Ken Cheng is the only person doing LinkedIn correctly

A LinkedIn post from Ken Cheng with the following text

I owed a friend £22.91 for an Uber.

I transferred them £22.19 by accident.

They never brought it up.

Nobody would bring up 72p.

I did it on purpose.

I've been doing it for years.

Every time I have to transfer someone money, I "accidentally" leave off a bit.

I call it the Plausible Deniability Typo.

£24.37 instead of £24.73.
£9.38 instead of £9.83.
£3.46 instead of £3.64.

Sometimes if I'm feeling really risky, I'll do £18.54 instead of £19.54.

They'd look like a complete tool to quibble over this.

Instead, they are a tool in a different way.

A tool for me to get to the top.

I've probably made £100 over 5 years.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 04/12/2024

I've been doing indoor rowing a lot this year to get in shape (more than 1500km), but it can be incredibly boring. My solution was to start watching action anime during my rowing sessions. It turned out that time really flies with flashy action scenes and a banger soundtrack.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 30/11/2024

What is this crap? I’m getting a ton of “delete my account” requests sent to EmailEngine’s support email. Some kind of attempt to force me to engage with them or what? All these are Gmail, Outlook, etc. addresses, but EmailEngine only allows “business email” logins so these accounts don’t even exist

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 26/11/2024

As an european ECMAScript sounds way better than JavaScript 🫠

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 25/11/2024

With the USD strengthening against the EUR recently, my goal of reaching $10k MRR is sliding further into the future, as I mainly operate in EUR 🫣

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 24/11/2024

Huvitav kas sellist varianti pole, et saaks tasuta coachingu, aga laenu ei peaks võtma 🤔

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 18/11/2024

Reading “Tales of Demons and Gods” is pure torture these days — just 30 seconds worth of content after a week of waiting. Even the smallest story arcs take forever to complete.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 17/11/2024

Thought I’d finally found a use case for Stripe’s instant payouts as SEPA payments take weeks to clear. But no—until the payment clears, there are no payout options. Which makes sense, but then what’s the point of instant payouts? Pay a fee to get funds two days earlier than you’d get them anyway?

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 16/11/2024

This is why my solo business is old-school software, not service or SaaS: I’m on a two-week family vacation on the other side of the world, and left my laptop at home. Some support questions might go unanswered, but that’s it—and there aren’t many anyway.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 13/11/2024

Is it even possible to write complex regexes without triggering a ReDos vulnerabilty?

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 13/11/2024

I really liked it, but it felt very short, even with all the side quests. I haven't completed any Zelda game as fast as I did with EoW.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 13/11/2024

Struggling to find a new game to play after completing Zelda Echoes of Wisdom with nothing in the queue. We only have a Switch at home, so that limits my options. I've already completed everything in the Zelda series. I have a level 86 character in Diablo 2, but TBH, the grinding is getting boring.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 12/11/2024

Finally, my kids are old enough that they can teach _me_ about the ways of the world, not the other way around. On a related note, I learned that furries and therians exist.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 11/11/2024

I picked up indoor rowing in March to have some kind of physical activity, and it seems I recently passed the 1500 km mark. 🚣

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 11/11/2024

The shared MS365 accounts feature in EmailEngine is now live. First, add the main account, and then all the shared accounts the main account has access to. EmailEngine treats all these as separate mail accounts but will use credentials from the main account. emailengine.app/shared-mailb...

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Accessing Shared Mailboxes in Microsoft 365 with EmailEngine

EmailEngine supports accessing Microsoft 365 (MS365) shared mailboxes, allowing your applications to interact with these mailboxes via a RESTful API. This guide will walk you through the steps to conf...

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 08/11/2024

I’ve been doing some serious OAuth2 wrangling to get seamless support for MS365 shared mailboxes into EmailEngine. The account might use IMAP and SMTP, or it might use the MS Graph API to list and send emails—so all possibilities need to be covered.

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 05/11/2024

It took me a while to figure out the actual difference between BIMI VMC and CMC logos. So much fuss, yet so little technical information out there. The certificate structure includes an OID field ‘1.3.6.1.4.1.53087.1.13’, which is either ‘Registered Mark’ (for VMC) or ‘Prior Use Mark’ (for CMC).

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Andris Reinman @andrisreinman.com · 04/11/2024

I recently added a USD currency option for EmailEngine.app subscriptions, and the first thing I discovered was the high fees for transferring USD from Stripe to my Estonian bank account. So, I set up a USD account for my business with Wise, and suddenly, no transfer fees anymore!

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EmailEngine Email API

Streamline email integration for your app or service with a unified REST API that seamlessly connects with IMAP, SMTP, Gmail API, and Microsoft Graph API

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