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James Ivings

James Ivings

Co-founder of Leave Me Alone. Full-time maker and world traveller with Danielle 👫

11 posts •
Internationalizing our website with GPT-3
Behind the Scenes

Internationalizing our website with GPT-3

We internationalized our website using GPT-3. We can now run a script and in 5 minutes generate the site in a new language.

  • James Ivings
    James Ivings
7 min read
5 steps to get rid of spam emails
Tips and Tricks

5 steps to get rid of spam emails

Have you been added to a spam list and you're suddenly getting a lot of spam emails in your inbox? Here are our 5 simple tips for getting back control of your inbox from spammers.

  • James Ivings
    James Ivings
3 min read
De-Googling: Migrating from Google Photos to Nextcloud
Privacy

De-Googling: Migrating from Google Photos to Nextcloud

Over time I'm migrating my digital life away from Google products, in this article I talk about moving from Google Photos to Nextcloud.

  • James Ivings
    James Ivings
6 min read
How to send privacy friendly emails
Privacy

How to send privacy friendly emails

We spend a lot of time thinking about the ethics of email. In this post we explore a "code of ethics" for email senders.

  • James Ivings
    James Ivings
5 min read
How we made our SaaS homepage cookie-free 🍪
Behind the Scenes

How we made our SaaS homepage cookie-free 🍪

We spent a few days removing all the cookies from our homepage, here's what we changed.

  • James Ivings
    James Ivings
6 min read
How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?
Case Studies

How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?

How exactly does the Gmail unsubscribe button work and how can you make sure it always shows for your mailing-list emails?

  • James Ivings
    James Ivings
5 min read
How to block email trackers and read receipts
Tips and Tricks

How to block email trackers and read receipts

Almost every email we get these days is tracking us! In this post we look at what you can do to prevent tracking pixels and read-receipts.

  • James Ivings
    James Ivings
3 min read
Should I unsubscribe from emails in my spam folder?
Tips and Tricks

Should I unsubscribe from emails in my spam folder?

If an email ends up in your spam folder (unless you put it there yourself), there's a good chance that is has been flagged by your email provider as malicious. So should you unsubscribe from it or will that make things worse?

  • James Ivings
    James Ivings
4 min read
Introducing the "tracker" and "unread" tags to help you unsubscribe
Tips and Tricks

Introducing the "tracker" and "unread" tags to help you unsubscribe

If you've logged into Leave Me Alone recently then you may have noticed that some of the subscriptions in your mail list are sporting some new tags, tracker and unread.

  • James Ivings
    James Ivings
2 min read
Do companies who spam you with post also spam you with email?
Case Studies

Do companies who spam you with post also spam you with email?

We teamed up with our friends over at PaperKarma to figure out quite how strong the correlation was between email subscriptions and real life paper mail.

  • James Ivings
    James Ivings
4 min read
Teaching new languages to our unsubscriber bot
Coding

Teaching new languages to our unsubscriber bot

Improving our unsubscriber bot by using term frequency analysis to teach it new languages.

  • James Ivings
    James Ivings
6 min read
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