Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON

What tool makes these readme’s for new github repos that are bulletpointed lists with features, always prefixed by an emoji?

Basically any LLM

If I read it right, it's built on Gmail API

Are there any other provider agnostic tools with similar capabilities?

This just polls every x (default 30) seconds; if you use IMAP you can do better with IDLE (e.g. I pipe `fetchmail --check` to something that triggers a sync to immediately get new mails)

AI, I presume (but I’m not sure) that the code “agent” they are using creates it.

I guess JMAP was created to also deal with this. I'm not sure how far are we in implementation on clients side.

https://jmap.io/spec.html

Tool is an insult when applied to a human...

I wonder though if also the Gmail interface supports something like this? It seems it's pretty fast at receiving email.

There is this generic tool: https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya

There are pub/sub notifications but it's a bit of a pain to get working. You need an HTTP endpoint the server can reach for push notifications, I think, not long polling.

Not specifically about readmes/GitHub repos, but I've noticed some LLMs like Sonnet and GPT4.1 are really enthusiastic about doing emoji-prefixed lists for some reason.

Is there any good library or tool that let's me programmatically/easily or semi-automatically delete mail by query in gmail? The built in tools are not good enough. Does Thunderbird work with gmail nowadays?

Trained on too many JS libraries.

Just have SES put the email in s3, then do stuff.

One step closer to fully closing the loop on using LLMs to automate white collar work.

I think this trend has been around for a while now (it started to become more noticable for me at least a couple of years ago).

At first there seemed to be a correlation between how 'cool' the project was and the number of emoji, but now it seems like it's as expected as just having a README itself.

I've definitely seen _more_ decorated READMEs, and I can't help but feel like there's an inverse correlation between emoji count and readability.

I use imapfilter: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter

The GMail web client definitely doesn't create an HTTP endpoint to receive updates. But the API it uses is likely proprietary and private (even if it was built on top of the public API there would be a backend bridging the two)

Sorry, yes, my comment was confusing. I was answering the "how do I get faster notifications in a supported manner" part rather than the "how does the Gmail web UI do this" part.

I can't imagine google ever supporting something that useful.

Oh yeah, I'd love to hold on to people's emails and be responsible if they got leaked.

When ever I see tons of emojis in a list/faq/readme I first think of LLM output.

Thanks for this! Exactly what I was looking for.

Easily done in Google Apps Script.

Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42366025 - December 2024 (97 comments)

Is it just me, or is there a trend to make modern web applications accessible on the terminal?

“a resurgence with new tooling and polish”

TTL=1day

I do as well when I see:

# Code Comments Every Few Lines

Not necessarily a helpful thing, In fact I think that we were to use this to create dynamic prompts then it increases exponentially

It's probably LLM generated. Adding a fun/cool factor to the project. I created a Chrome Extension where you can "emojify" any text with a right-click. https://emoji-bot.com