Sad news, unfortunately my time at CIO has come to an end. I’m looking at new opportunities doing fun things with email. If you’d like to work together or know of any suitable jobs going please drop me a message. I’m also open to short term gigs while I look for the right opportunity.

🎵 "30 year old shirt, never stopped me dreaming" 🎵 I picked this beauty up in Our Price back in 96. It's my lucky shirt, every time I wear it you can pretty much guarantee England will play a game of football. #FIFAWorldCup #ENG

The transphobic hate on TalkTV is dangerous, misinformed, and completely breaches the broadcasting code. But Ofcom has done nothing. So we’re taking Ofcom to court to force them to do their job. Back the legal challenge here: https://goodlaw.social/0r9k

UK petition for immediate ban on sale or promotion of "Smart glasses" petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76.... (At the very least, they should be renamed 'shart glasses'). [Reposted as I ballsed up the URL before and Bluesky doesn't allow edits]

Petition: Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses

The government should immediately ban the sale and promotion of glasses that contain recording capability. The government should explore using existing laws, such as RIPA, GDPR, DPA to take immediate ...

petition.parliament.uk

Hi folks 👋 I'm launching a new YouTube channel for all things email dev. I've got a hand full of videos up already but a lot more to come. Take a look: mremail.dev/4w4l6jo Also let me know any content you'd like to see me cover. Cheers! #EmailGeeks

AXS tickets are terrible. I got an email, none of the images loaded and half the links didn't work. Carefully worked out it was maybe legit, but didn't follow the links directly. Need to download an app to get my tickets, so did that. And signed in.

Love this write up about the @emailmarkup.org accessibility report from @srhdesign.co.uk Thanks for sharing 😁

Simon Harper@srhdesign.co.uk · 3mo ago

🚨 "All About Email", Issue 241 is out now! In this week's email marketing newsletter: 99.88% of emails fail accessibility checks. We dig into the EMC's 2026 report, the top issues, what the EAA means, and what you can fix today. Read the full issue. 👇

I don't really use facebook anymore but just trying to list a wardrobe on marketplace and it blocked it, asking me for ID. As a side note, anyone want a large wardrobe, collect from Shoreham

For the first time, the 2026 Email Accessibility Report audited newsletter and marketing platforms with built-in email builders. We analyzed: • 6,909 #Substack emails • 2,189 @beehiiv.com emails • 1,468 #Shopify Email campaigns

Accessibility Report 2026 | Email Markup Consortium

Email Markup Consortium Accessibility Report - 2026

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The 2026 email accessibility report is now live. 99.88% of 376,348 triggered Serious or Critical accessibility issues. Once again, it's disappointing, most of these issues are quick easy fixes. We all need to do better, myself included.

Email Markup Consortium@emailmarkup.org · 3mo ago

The 2026 Email Accessibility Report is now live! We analyzed 376,348 HTML emails across industries, geographies and platforms. mremail.dev/3PFRAR8 #GAAD #EmailGeeks

Besides key dates from our latest newsletter, we also want to let you know (OR SHOUT ABOUT) that our CFP is now officially open: ffconf.org/cfp Please help spread the word (re-post). @remysharp.com always carefully curates the event, whilst always finding new and interesting ideas from your CFPs.

FFConf Call for Papers

FFConf is accepting talk proposals. Submissions are reviewed continuously; speakers receive travel & accommodation.

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I've been taking a bit of a dive in auto linking in email. It's one of those annoying issues that doesn't have one good fix, there is always some compromise. Hopefully this article will help you find the best (least bad) solutions for you. customer.io/learn/messag... #EmailGeeks

Email auto-linking: When it helps and how to fix it | customer.io

Auto-linking in email turns dates, numbers, and URLs into clickable actions—but not always the right ones. Here's how to prevent unwanted links without breaking accessibility.

customer.io

New Outlook! Well we know what that means... New bugs! Oh great we're not using MS Word to render HTML anymore. Oh but now we have some weird inconsistent bugs. Fun. #EmailGeeks have learned that we can’t have nice things. customer.io/learn/messag...

New Outlook rendering issues: What breaks and why | customer.io

CSS breaking in New Outlook's preview pane? Here's what's causing the rendering issues—and a few ways to minimize the impact while the email community digs in.

customer.io

Love this! And it also works in Thunderbird 150 too #EmailGeeks

Firefox for Web Developers@webdevs.firefox.com · 4mo ago

CSS's light-dark() now accepts images, making it simpler to define alternate values for a dark color scheme. Here's how it works:

Ok so enough about email and techy things, here are some fox cubs playing in my garden

I've been playing around with CSS random() in email. I'm loving the simplicity of the syntax, very intuitive to use, so i made a little fruit machine that creates a random result with every open. Here is the code, works in Safari and AppleMail 26.2+ parcel.io/e/0847bbd7-8... #EmilGeeks

You can always rely on Outlook to mess with your space mission

niki grayson@nikigrayson.com · 5mo ago

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Hey look, I deigned myself a new t-shirt with an email on it. Because I like email.

Ok I've done another video. Hey #EmailGeeks did you know over 80% of email clients support using grid and flex. That is true but it's clickbate, it's not quite as exciting or useful as it sounds, but I think there is still potential to do something cool with it. www.linkedin.com/posts/mjrobb...

#emailgeeks | Mark Robbins

Using display:flex and display:grid in email. Support is way better than you might think, over 80% of email clients support it. However... this is email so there are a few catches to that statement. ...

linkedin.com

OK, I was pretty sceptical but i have to admit, I really loved @syntax.fm Mad CSS. I feel like I'm going to get a little too into this as this progresses 😆

Sorry I had to run off before the #SotB26 after party. Fatigue is hitting me very hard today. My pacing app is blowing up. Back in Shoreham now. Was great seeing everyone and meeting loads of new people. Until next time folks x

Loved this talk. I think I might have to borrow this, replace a space with a line break idea for our email minification. Outlook also doesn't like long lines of text.

Josh Tumath@joshtumath.uk · 6mo ago

So they got their images, CSS and JS as small as they could. Could they minify their HTML? They only used line break characters, removed comments, removed whitespace. But IE didn't like the code all being on one line so they put a new line in first attribute of each element. #SotB26

! #Sotb26

Very much looking forward to #SotB2026 tomorrow, that came round fast! Very much dreading the early start for the long trek up north to the big city. Hope the trains wake up in time.

I was going to upload this video here too but it's over 100mb and I can't be bothered to compress it, so sharing the LinkedIn version. Anyway, here is a quick and cheesy video on Google force-dark mode and how I try and work with it in email. www.linkedin.com/posts/mjrobb... #EmailGeeks

#emailgeeks | Mark Robbins

Hi #EmailGeeks 👋, Working with Google force dark mode is a pain. And it's not just Gmail that uses this, it actually covers quite a few android apps. I've recorded this cheesy 3min video going over s...

linkedin.com

Great article. Spoiler alert #EmailGeeks yes, you do still need it for your layout tables. But this is a good read to help understand how it it all works a bit better.

Piccalilli@piccalil.li · 7mo ago

Steve Frenzel shares some sage advice on correctly using this role and value combination by showing questionable examples, followed by some better approaches. Spoiler: the better ones are the simple ones. piccalil.li/blog/you-mig...

Over 40,000 have taken action to keep Palantir out of the NHS. Will you join them? https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=PalantirNHS&utm_medium=social_media

Say no to Palantir in the NHS

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

notopalantir.goodlawproject.org

Because of AI, it's getting harder to be a public educator on the internet. Devs are watching far fewer tutorials and buying fewer paid courses, making it financially tough for teachers. If you like a creator's content and can spare some cash, find out how you can support them.

I made this "ad" for one of Cursor's recent features. It finally solves the terrible problem of knowing CSS.

🚨 Issue 225 of "All About Email" is out now! This week - It’s BIMI time! 🎉 BIMI updates explained: Inbox support, VMC vs. CMC, Gmail’s blue checkmark, and how to set BIMI up properly in 2026. Read the full newsletter below. 👇

Issue #225 All About Email

It’s BIMI time! 🎉 BIMI updates explained: Inbox support, VMC vs CMC, Gmail’s blue checkmark, and how to set BIMI up properly in 2026.

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