Oh wow.

That looks like an overly complicated solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. Synching stuff that is in git? Why not just use… git? Also npm… and the example has an env var named “DB_PASS” in it. You never put passwords in version control.

A philosophy of software design, by John Ousterhout.

Short book with some fresh approaches that i like way more than some of the established ones.

How does that even relate?

Mail encryption has nothing to do with how the mail is formatted (html vs plain text). And the client protocol for fetching the mail from the server also has nothing to do with that.