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Posts on Gmail.

2 posts tagged "Gmail".

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Build LogBBBrain
#01
2026-06-105 min read

The inbox filter model drops strangers silently. I built a queue instead.

Inbox filters drop what they don't recognise. I wanted a record instead: every unknown sender parked, every blocked arrival logged, nothing silently gone. Five tables, four sync branches, and a historyId cursor later, the editorial pipeline's Inbox Hub does exactly that.

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2026-06-085 min read

Making Gmail tractable in a day. Four branches and one partial index.

The Inbox Hub shipped in five sprints, all on the same day. The classifier is four comparisons against a rules table. The speed comes from a partial index on pending senders, not from the sync logic. Neither changed how I read email.

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