mkenyon

Food bank usage is up ~30% year-over-year. Hardly surprising that people are delaying upgrades for smartphones.

(Not a “grrr, smartphones” post, just a sad reality post)

Staff dev on 1Password’s developer tools here. We screwed this up in our first few releases of the 1Password CLI, largely out of ignorance. Those releases stored config in $HOME/.op at first. But early feedback pointed us to XDG, so we migrated. Now we check:

1. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.op (if var is set) 2. $HOME/.config/op 3. $HOME/.op

I hate to be the dev who says “I don’t know why those other code bases find it so difficult that they put up a fight” but our `findConfigDirectory()` function isn’t exactly complicated, even when you consider all the operating systems that the 1Password CLI supports.

(Sorry for the formatting, I’m on my phone.)

I've been a happy Fastmail customer for years prior to working on this feature. I've used a wildcard with my Fastmail account, created a new email address for each service I sign up with, and stored that email address in 1Password. All by hand. It's a tiny hassle, but one that I think is worth it.

The Masked Email integration makes that entire process automatic. It's even easier than before. It's enough to convince a few Fastmail-using friends to start doing it.

That's a good concern.

I can't fully speak for the Fastmail folks, but I know that there are a few upper limits for how many masked email addresses that one account can create. We tried to set them unreasonably high to allow for all manner of legitimate use while still preventing bad actors. They're also monitoring usage and tuning that limit. Plus, you can always email support and ask for a increase for your specific account, if you ever bump up against it.

True! I've been doing [email protected] for a few years now with Fastmail. This makes it one step easier to generate that email address, as well as one-click blocking any alias that starts receiving spam.

Those +plus aliases still make it easy for people find your actual email address.

We go one step further and generate a random email address for each new service you sign up with. It'll look something like "[email protected]".

You can create a new masked email anywhere you have the 1Password browser extension, including our brand new iOS Safari extension.

Hi, one of the 1Password engineers who worked on this. Glad to hear that you like the idea!

One of the really nice parts of building this out with Fastmail is that you can create Masked Emails for your own domain. So, if you ever decide that Fastmail isn’t right for you, then you still receive all of those emails when you set up a wildcard alias with your new email provider.

Similarly, if you ever decide that 1Password isn’t right for you, that doesn’t stop you from receiving your emails. And the email addresses should still be part of your 1Password export.

I mean, sure, you're technically correct, but you're missing the point. For just one example, it's so heckin' convenient when an app recognizes that you have a 2FA token in your clipboard copied from your 2FA app and "pastes" it for you automatically.

> Second, the reasoning. Why?

Given how they've positioned Pocket and how Firefox's new tab page contains "Recommendations from Pocket", Mozilla seems to want you to enjoy browsing. They want you to enjoy using the Web and to enjoy it using Firefox. It's an interesting play and I'm excited to try it.

I understand your point, but I wanted to mention that other countries do charge for bathrooms (even NYC charges for public washrooms), so you can use a better example in the future!

It's per dev.

> Fundzinger had a clause in their contract that if you for any reason cancel the project before the end of the campaign, they would bill you at their hourly rate.

> For Fundzinger, we got on the phone with them and explained the situation in detail. They were more than understanding, and offered a deal that worked for us.