The Walled Garden Escape
From The Important Thing · 23:09
Show by Michael Lopp
In our 102nd episode, Lyle moves his mail, contacts, and calendar off Google and finds madness on the other side of the walled garden — Fastmail, two contact lists, a calendar his wife can't see, Rands's robot discovering royalties he was never paid, and why none of these services play nicely together (it's triage, not malice). We talked about: Fastmail, where Lyle landed CalDAV and CardDAV, the open protocols that should just work Superhuman, the mail client sitting on top of Rands's Gmail I Hate Fish, the inbox zero post Rands published a week after we recorded this Claude Code and the Model Context Protocol (not the Master Control Program) Etherpad, the real-time editor Google bought Home Assistant and Matter, home automation's latest promise Related Important Things episodes: EP 98: The One About The Joy of Bots EP 83: The One About Your AI Tools EP 61: The One About Privacy
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