Latest news, tutorials, and insights about email automation, AI agents, and developer tools.
Email-based authentication is deceptively simple until you try to test it. An “email address sign in” flow crosses multiple systems (frontend, aut...
Jason Macdown
11 min read
Email is still the backbone of signups, magic links, OTPs, and system alerts, but it is also a hostile interface for automation. Messages arrive l...
Jason Macdown
11 min read
LLM agents and automated QA suites increasingly have to “touch email” as part of real user flows: signup verification, password resets, magic link...
Jason Macdown
10 min read
When you need an email address for an automated signup, an LLM-driven workflow, or a one-off integration test, the slowest part is often the inbox...
Jason Macdown
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If you’ve ever searched for a temp Gmail account to test signups, OTPs, and magic links, you’re not alone. Gmail is familiar, deliverability is ...
Jason Macdown
10 min read
Email automation fails most often in the boring places: parsing. If you are building QA flows, signup verification, or LLM agents that read mail, ...
Jason Macdown
10 min read
Most teams start with a simple goal, “I need an email account for my API.” But once you build anything agentic (LLMs), parallel test runs (CI), or...
Jason Macdown
10 min read
Email is one of the oldest “APIs” on the internet, and it still sits in the critical path for onboarding, password resets, alerts, and identity wo...
Jason Macdown
10 min read
Email-based sign in is deceptively simple for humans and notoriously flaky for automation. A user clicks “Send me a code,” an email arrives, they ...
Jason Macdown
10 min read
Email is one of the most failure prone parts of end-to-end QA. It is asynchronous, full of third-party variability, and easy to make flaky with po...
Jason Macdown
10 min read
Signup flows are one of the easiest places for automated tests to become flaky. Not because your UI assertions are wrong, but because email delive...
Jason Macdown
10 min read
Disposable email is often associated with shady “temp mail” sites, but for developers it can be a legitimate building block for testing, automati...
Jason Macdown
10 min read
AI agents and automated test runners are great at calling APIs, but they still struggle with one thing most products require: receiving an email. ...
Jason Macdown
10 min read
When you build AI agents, automated QA, or high-volume signup and verification flows, email becomes a bottleneck fast. Traditional inboxes are har...
Jason Macdown
10 min read