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10 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I seriously thought this was a joke. The old/new "settlement" had no difference? Oh, there is the smallest of differences. I won't spoil it. Look for it yourself. But this is what a trillion-dollar company showed up to bully Prepear about? Out of control.
Easy to dismiss this as "haha apple lawyers clocking billable hours". Nah. This is classic Foucault-style sovereign demonstration of power. Apple has shown they have SO MUCH POWER they can change the angle of a fucking leaf in your logo, if they so please.
When you have that kind of power – a willingness to spend tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars – to change the angle of a leaf, JUST BECAUSE, you've warned the world what kind of pain you could really inflict, if the mood should strike.
Listen to this as well: "Prepear's CEO says that the trademark issue has now been 'amicably resolved' and that Prepear is happy with the outcome." We found ourselves doing the same, when we barely survived Apple's attack on @heyhey. Thanking our abusers for the privilege.
Like a wrongfully condemned peasant, kissing the feet of the king, because after whatever brutal inquisition they had been through, the king decided not to execute them in the end. THANK YOU, YOUR MAJESTY!!

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10 Feb
Considering the fact that Apple testified to the North Dakota Senate that if they dare pass this bill, it would "destroy iPhone as you know it", it's kinda wild how little coverage this has received. If it's as serious a threat as Apple claims, shouldn't this be BREAKING NEWS?
Another good test if Apple is simply bullshitting is whether this gets listed as a material business risk in their next 10-Q filing with the SEC. You'd think pending legislation that could "destroy" their most profitable product "as we know it" would warrant investor disclosures?
And if Apple fails to disclose this risk to investors, are they then lining up a "everything-is-securities-fraud" (as @matt_levine would say 😂) lawsuit from investors or inquiry from the SEC?
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10 Feb
Oh this is more like it: "No read tracking - we only check if the receiving server accepted the email, we never invade a person's inbox privacy". A transactional email sender that not only doesn't default spy pixels, but won't allow them 😍 ohmysmtp.com
I'm not surprised that they're out of the UK. There's a much greater appreciation for privacy-by-default in Europe at the moment. The GDPR is like a fertilizer for a new crop of services that simple seeks to do what's right by users from the outset. Loving it!
The way I found them was through this lovely explainer of SPF Records. This is something we worked on a lot for HEY for Work and custom domains. The need to validate and authorize who can send from your domain is key to guaranteeing delivery. blog.ohmysmtp.com/blog/whats-an-…
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9 Feb
I'll be testifying remotely today before the North Dakota State Senate in support of an amazing bill ensuring that software developers cannot be coerced into using app store payment processing or face retaliation if they refuse. This is what we need 😍 legis.nd.gov/assembly/67-20…
It's truly an incredible bill. Plainly written, providing immediate relief, and expertly carved out to apply to large, general computing platforms. And you don't even need to be a lawyer to parse it. North Dakota would do so very, very well to pass this bill 🙏
Apple and Google will surely throw everything they have at it to prevent this bill from passing. When you have an extortion racket as profitable as the duopoly of app stores, you don't give up the rents without a fight. But doubt North Dakota will be swayed.
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4 Feb
The trinity of expanded access pitches for @heyhey has now shipped! HEY for Work offers full custom domain support (with DKIM etc!), multi-account linking allows for a unified imbox, and now we bring send-as via external SMTPs to all account types 🥳 hey.com/features/send-…
This send-as feature is what we internally developed as ROGUE MODE. You can see how the whole feature was considered and presented internally in advance of the public reveal in Basecamp: public.3.basecamp.com/p/gpfFtkpt5NVu…
Unfortunately, send-as is not available for Gmail. Google is using their dominant market position to fence-in external SMTP support behind a kiss-the-ring, month-long, arduous assessment process with preferred vendors you have to pay upwards of $75K! 🤯 support.google.com/cloud/answer/9…
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3 Feb
Calling out people who @heyhey alerts me is using spy pixels is my favorite awkward social moment 😂 The twisted rationalizations and embarrassing excuses I’ve heard. People who use spy pixels are usually shocked that software exists to detect and shame them.
And of course it’s embarrassing! You’re trying to spy on someone without their knowledge or consent. Spy pixels used by individuals against individuals would disappear immediately if the spying party didn’t think they could get away with it without detection.
But HEY sees you. HEY calls you out. Many tens of thousands of people are paying for HEY. So if you’re using spy pixels against others, you gotta think whether this is your lucky day, punk 😄 hey.com/spy-trackers/
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2 Feb
Kredis is a new framework for Rails that provides higher-level types and structures for Redis. This is yet another extraction from the open-source faucet that is @heyhey by @kaspth and yours truly. We're just getting started, but you can follow along! ✌️❤️ github.com/rails/kredis
This is that abstraction I was talking about the other day that just fell into place after years of noodling. Really fun how quickly we were able to go from OH SHIT, THIS IS IT to a fairly fleshed out framework that'll be used in @heyhey production and is available to all.
Also, this has reminded me just how much I ❤️ Redis. It's just such a joy to work with. Being able to wrap a loving object-oriented abstraction around it, and removing gobs of repeated code from our apps, is just a cherry on top.
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