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*that* Ross Rader
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Hi, I’m Ross Rader. I have been at Tucows since 1993 and serve as Chief Customer Experience Officer at Ting. I write about AI, internet services, and customer experience design, and how tech changes how you connect online.
Oh! Haha. That *is* interesting to think about though!

Good luck with your project!
December 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just make sure you are storing those tokens securely if you go that route. Gold standard would be to use the system keychain if you can.
December 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
There are easier ways of giving your agent access to your inbox though. I am working on an app that requires inbox access and just found it easier to use app tokens for the major platforms that most people use. The apis are a useful abstraction on the hassle of managing email.
December 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Oh, alpine is a command line email client. It started as pine, a variant of elm, and was the goto mail client on the early Internet before the web and TCP/IP came to Windows which drove gui clients like eudora and later gmail alpineapp.email
Latest Alpine Release Home Page
Get a new version of Alpine with new features and bug fixes
alpineapp.email
December 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
So true. I installed alpine this week because of exactly this… grabbing a mouse to fetch something from my inbox is annoying enough when working in a gui, too annoying when immersed in the command line.
December 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Oh nice! Now I definitely need to dig in :-)
December 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Might be a few steps before that. We haven’t seen The Long Walk or Running Man announced yet. Might be easier to kick off The Purge in his third term.
December 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
although salesforce is starting to drag slack in that direction too...
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Ew.

(Had to read this a few times wondering what Elizabeth May was going on about 🥸)
December 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
And granted, I might be the last to the party on this one, but praise where praise is due...
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I super can't wait for the "100% made with AI" remake to come out in a few years.
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM