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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 11/09/2026

🎉 Great news folks, the good people at Gmail have finally fixed the forced dark mode issue. In both the iOS and Android apps 🎉 They now support setting the color-scheme meta tag prevent the forced dark colors being used <meta name="color-scheme" content="light only" /> #EmailGeeks

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 01/07/2026

🎵 "30 year old shirt, never stopped me dreaming" 🎵 I picked this beauty up in Our Price back in 96. It's my lucky shirt, every time I wear it you can pretty much guarantee England will play a game of football. #FIFAWorldCup #ENG

Mark wearing a red England t-shirt. Showing the back in a mirror. The shirt says it says Baddiel & Skinner, Lightning Seed '96. 03 Lions. the number looking like the number on the back of a football shirt.

Mark wearing a red England t-shirt. It has the 3 lions crest with England printed below.

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 23/06/2026

Hi folks 👋 I'm launching a new YouTube channel for all things email dev. I've got a hand full of videos up already but a lot more to come. Take a look: mremail.dev/4w4l6jo Also let me know any content you'd like to see me cover. Cheers! #EmailGeeks

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 28/05/2026

I don't really use facebook anymore but just trying to list a wardrobe on marketplace and it blocked it, asking me for ID. As a side note, anyone want a large wardrobe, collect from Shoreham

Pop up that reads:
Upload your ID. Before we can get you back on Facebook safely, we need to make sure this is your account. You can prove that this account is yours by sending us a photo of your ID.

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 17/04/2026

and here they are at dusk with Jonesy (a friends cat we're looking after) watching them with me.

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 17/04/2026

Ok so enough about email and techy things, here are some fox cubs playing in my garden

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 09/04/2026

I've been playing around with CSS random() in email. I'm loving the simplicity of the syntax, very intuitive to use, so i made a little fruit machine that creates a random result with every open. Here is the code, works in Safari and AppleMail 26.2+ parcel.io/e/0847bbd7-8... #EmilGeeks

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 07/04/2026

Such a great gig, so much fun! Sorry we didn't get to see you after, had to run for a train.

Jeremy shredding on a bouzouki against the glowing lights of the stage. Dressed in a sharp suit with an embroidered western shirt with a brass slide on his little finger

Salter Cane on stage at the Hope and Ruin, coloured lights flare in the camera silhouetting the audience and highlighting the band as they rock out in the otherwise dimly lit venue.

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 31/03/2026

Hey look, I deigned myself a new t-shirt with an email on it. Because I like email.

Mark stood in a sunny garden wearing a cream t-shirt with a faded 1970's style print of a Commodore PET computer. Below is the text Email est. 1971 in a groovy style font.
On the computer screen it says: @SNDMSG
TO: TOMLINSON@BBN-TENEXA
CC:
SUBJECT: TEST
MESSAGE: QWERTYUIOP
^D

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 27/01/2026

Thanks for the afternoon tea #LitmusLive. Will I be disciplined and save some of it for the conference on 11th-12th Feb, or will I eat it all before. Time to place your bets folks. Then register here to find out www.litmus.com/conference My session is on the 11th, 14:50ET / 19.50GMT

A hamper on a wooden worktop full of Irish foods, containing; tea bags, fruit cake, lemon biscuits, oat and raisin cookies, jam, marmalade and chocolates.

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 26/01/2026

First image with auto-fit turned off (or with the fix applied) looks ok. Then the second image with auto-fit turned on, you can everything is zoomed out and the media query to stack the logo hasn't engaged. #EmailGeeks

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 20/01/2026

Question for my #designSystem friends, what do you call this kind of label directly below a link? Is there a name for it, or is it just a label/description?

A large green CTA button with the text, Primary CTA. Just below that in small text the read Line of text under the CTA. It's clear that the 2 elements are related. Part of a paragraph can be seen above these and part of a heading can be seen below.

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 06/01/2026

So big new, I’ve just changed my role at customer.io. I’m now going to be a Developer Advocate!   Not to be confused with a Devouring Advocaat which I do as more of a festive pass time, this will be a full time job.

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 13/04/2025

Playing around with #CSS Overflow Module Level 5. I built out a CSS only hotspot email. This works in (some) email clients such as @notion.com Mail. When viewed in Chrome 135. It's early days but I'm loving these new CSS features, so much potential 😃 parcel.io/e/461478b7-f... #EmailGeeks

Notion Mail inbox showing an email with a green satin shirt with humbing bird embroidery and pale pink fringe. On the shirt are 3 hotspots, when clicked each one shows a pop up message.

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 03/12/2024

Well ok then. Social media and AI apps are cool, but have you heard of email? It's the future.

Phone home screen containing 21 different email clients. Some are repeated but beta versions or lite versions

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 23/11/2024

Morning #Brighton folks, the weather is shit today so get yourself down to Silver Spur makers market in Knoyle Hall, BN1 6RB (free parking). Be sure to check out Flamingo Rodeo (my partner's stall).

Flamingo Rodeo stall selling colourful cowboy shirts with tassels and embroidery. Cussions with cats and tote bags.

makers market in Knoyle Hall Brighton. A range of stalls selling weird and quirky clothing, knickknacks accessories and 'things'.

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 21/11/2024

Hiya folks, Does anyone know of a setting in Safari dev tools that can stop it squashing content to 1 character per line? Obviously less elements is one solution but this is an email in outlook webmail and none of it is my code.

A screenshot of Safari dev tools. In the elements tab, there are so many nested elements that they are written as one character per line, making it very hard to read.

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 16/01/2024

I wanted to post a teaser video here too but apparently that's not supported yet, so view that on Mastodon if you want mastodon.social/deck/@M_J_Ro...

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 12/12/2023

Very excited for #ParcelUnpacked Loads of great #EmailGeeks talking all things email, oh yeah and it's free. Sign up here parcel.io/unpacked I'm also pretty happy with this game I built in the launch email, it's basically the Chrome Dino game but with a different design and built to work in email

Screen shot of Parcel Unpacked email, with a game embedded in it. Retro computer game cityscape. A dark night lit up by the buildings and neon signs. The building names are email terms such as; Parcel, Customer.io, HTML, CSS, components. A character runs along jumping over Outlook logos until they hit one and the game is over.

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 08/09/2023

Nearly finished packing for my trip to Boston and #LitmusLive2023, got the essentials sorted. #BritsAbroad

A suitcase containing a travel kettle, a travel mug and a pot of tea bags and nothing else.

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 31/08/2023

Hi all, I'm going to be speaking at the Email on Acid Email camp on 5th October. All virtual, all totally free, all good. Come along and join in. hello.mailjet.com/email-camp/?... #EmailGeeks #EmailCamp

Email Camp, Mission Control.
Free virtual event.
Email odyssey: Journeying across
email development’s present and future.
Mark Robbins, Software Engineer
at Parcel.io

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 22/08/2023

Wow #EmailGeeks slack just hit 20,000 members! Such a great community the admins do an incredible job keeping it friendly, helpful and collaborative, and any spam is dealt with fast. Sign up here if it's of interest to you email.geeks.chat

Slack group showing exactly 20,000 members

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Mark Robbins @goodemailcode.com · 05/08/2023

Happy #BrightonPride, everyone 🏳️‍🌈. You can't have a rainbow without a bit of rain

A group of people carrying an extremely long rainbow flag in heavy rain along Brighton seafront. Everyone is soaked but still celebrating. The flag is reflected in the rain on the path

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