Hugo Osvaldo Barrera

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Man pages are great, man readers are the problem

2025138 points162 comments Tools & Productivity details

TLDR: man pages support links, but man page readers neither display nor allow allow following them.

ImapGoose

2025120 points18 comments Software Engineering details

ImapGoose is a small program to keep local mailboxes in sync with an IMAP server. The wording “keep […] in sync” implies that it does so continuously, rather than a one-time sync. ImapGoose is designed as a daemon, monitoring both the IMAP server and the local filesystem, and immediately synchronising changes. When…