Update for the week ending on Friday, Aug 21, 2026

Refactoring English

Book

• Published the v0.9.11 revision of the book.
• Finished the new section on blog post titles and shared it with early access readers.
• Expanded the choosing blog topics chapter
• Did final readthroughs of more chapters

Feedback site

• Fixed the navbar positioning so that it doesn’t cover up the top heading when a heading is the anchor link

Mail offlining project

I’ve been meaning to take my old mail offline because it’s a lot of sensitive information to store in plaintext with a third-party vendor, but I’m deathly afraid of losing email, so I’m trying to be cautious about the move. I don’t want to delete a folder just because I think I have it archived and later find out I didn’t capture all the messages.

• Added support for archiving and unarchiving messages and threads
• Added mail integrity diagnostics
  • A lot of surprising findings. Strangely, I’ve somehow ended up with messages that have the same Message-ID in multiple folders but with slightly different contents, like an extra mail header in the Sent folder that doesn’t exist in the Archive folder
  • I need to look into this more
• Added a status page for viewing archive/unarchive status
• Dropped tracking for read/unread mail
  • Doesn’t matter for the archive, as it’s just extra complexity

NixOS Config

• Again tried to disable GPU acceleration features in Firefox
  • I keep running into weird issues like graphs not rendering and image uploads coming out all black, and this makes it slightly better

Misc

• Submitted a patch to imapgoose
  • It defensively avoids saving messages to disk if the server sent a zero-byte message.
• Added more download options to pointer-brother