Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
Use plain text email
There are two main types of emails on the internet: plain text and HTML. Many people, particularly in technical communities, strongly prefer or even require the use of plain text email from participants. However, your mail client may not have it set up by default. We'll help you get it configured, and introduce you to the norms and conventions of plain text email.
Scott Lanoue - CoMail
Make your Gmail more private - Nathan Nelson
Proton, the Swiss encrypted and privacy-aware email service, now lets you read and reply to your Gmail emails from within Proton. If you’re looking to wean yourself off Gmail, or just curious about trying an alternative, this could be a good place to start: anyone you reply to will still receive your messages as Gmail, ... Read more
Build Your Own Browser Tools Without a Backend - J Lopes
Many free online tools want your email first. Most of what they do can happen in the browser instead, and this is how.
KhalidLam/CubeMail
CubeMail is a webmail client built using React and Chakra UI, It runs in the browser and uses the Gmail's public Javascript API.
An introduction to "introduction": a common but rarely-named systems concept
Introduction is not always just a simple map from a name to a response containing addresses. In fact, it's more interesting when it's not simple.
Ronny Chieng
Instead of figuring out how to game these horrible social media algorithms by flooding my followers with dumb content, I’m trying to actually respect my audience for once by creating an email list to contact you only when I want something from you. For example, if I’m performing live in your area and I want to you to come, or if I have a new comedy special out and I want you to click on it, or beam it into your brain or whatever the comedy platform of the future will be. Sign up below and unsubscribe at anytime.
Mike Masnick on protocols for publishers
An interview with @masnick.com (of TechDirt), the author of the influential 2019 paper "Protocols, Not Platforms," reflecting on how his ideas apply to publishers in 2026.
AT Protocol Roadmap (Spring 2026) - AT Protocol
Updates to the AT Protocol roadmap, including Permissioned Data and Account Experience.
AT Protocol Roadmap (Spring 2026) - AT Protocol
Updates to the AT Protocol roadmap, including Permissioned Data and Account Experience.
Email address obfuscation: What works in 2026?
Here are some of the best techniques for keeping email addresses hidden from spammers—along with the statistics on how likely they are to be broken.
New Custom Handlers component for Chrome – make everything intensely
The HTML Standard section on Custom Handlers describes the procedure to register custom protocol handlers for URLs with specific schemes. When a URL is followed, the protocol dictates which part of the system handles it by consulting registries. In some cases, handlers may fall to the OS level and and launch a desktop application (eg. mailto:// may launch a native application) or, the browser may redirect the request to a different HTTP(S) URL (eg. mailto:// can go to gmail).
AT Protocol Primer
What is the AT Protocol and why does it matter in the grand scheme of the web
