Over/Under #73 with Dave Gauer

This week my guest is Dave Gauer. His blog is older than Google! He has rat tools for updating his blog. He loves programming, art, books, and has many notes You can follow him on the Fediverse at @ratfactor@mastodon.art, and also subscribe to his RSS feed. Today, here are his topics ⤵️ HTML emails Overrated! I’m writing this response with ‘aerc’, a terminal email client that lets me use Vim as the text editor, so my answer couldn’t be anything else. HTML email is really great for scams, spam, phishing, advertising, tracking people’s activity, and breaching security. The context is really important. At work, anything goes. We all use the same email system and I embed screenshots in HTML just like everybody else. That’s a specific case where email just happens to be the delivery mechanism, but we could just as well be using a forum, wiki, or chat application. But when you’re authoring email for a stranger, you should respect their preferences. And only plaintext email works for…