(2021-06-17) Brander Everything Talks Email

Gordon Brander: Everything Talks Email. What if every button in your app had an email address? What if apps could email each other?

*it is not far off from the philosophy that makes Unix such flexible infrastructure for software. "Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program."" --Unix Philosophy, Bell System Technical Journal, Jul-Aug 1978

Where Lego has dots, Unix has pipes.

Email is the stdio of the internet

Email is not an app. It is a protocol, like HTTP. As a protocol, email has a lot going for it:.....

I plan to do some interesting things with email in Subconscious app.