Category Archives: musings

Offlineimap + mutt + gmail + msmtp = crazy delicious email

I’ve finally settled on the best email setup I’ve had since the fetchmail+procmail+mutt setup I used several years ago. It’s not much different and still allows me to use my absolute favorite email client, mutt. “Offlineimap is a tool to simplify your email reading” says the homepage for this deceptively simple program. With offlineimap I [...]

Why Haskell is a joy to learn

I recently discovered Project Euler, an excellent resource to use while learning a new language. Maybe a little late to the game, but fun nonetheless. The very first problem is rather simple: If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. [...]

The Non-Intrusive User Interface

Technology as a whole should enable us. It should ease our daily tasks, offloading some of the burden, whether that be mental processing or physical expenditure. This should be especially true of computers our daily interactions bring us in contact with and more still when the bulk of our time is spent working with them. [...]