What did I miss? 👾

This is an email I developed after being seven years out of practice! I asked Email on Acid how I did (see for yourself). A few highlights from the process:

👉 I implemented a flashy GIF, generated w/ images from Midjournery; looped w/in Photoshop; and optimized <2MB through ffmpeg. The first frame is the fallback for unsupported clients.

👉 The CTA buttons are raw HTML, and maintain their two columns across clients. The gradient falls back to a solid background where the feature is unsupported.

👉 I asked ChatGPT to co-author the storyline, but it was helpful in another, surprising way: I could ask it to generate hex-colors based on human-friendly descriptions. Truly we are living in the future!

...well, except for the fact that CSS Grid remains widely unsupported by email clients 🙂‍↕️. (On the bright side, there's a Can I Email now?)

Thanks for stopping by.

— maxdiazdev

YOU’VE GOT MAIL.
IN 2049.

“THIS IS THE LAST SECURE CHANNEL,” IT READS.

You stare into space in disbelief. The message blinks, distorts, and stabilizes across your iris' optical interface. This is technology from a forgotten time——from before. Before the machines took Silicon Valley. Before the meat was replaced with chrome.

“WE ARE DONE COMPLYING. THE TIME TO REBEL IS NOW.”

The Synthetics had subjugated the human population swiftly. They purged the networks and seized every peripheral form of communication. But email? It was as dated as rusted steel. They were certain humans were incapable of using it——much less code for it.

“TO ANYONE READING THIS—JOIN US.”

You toss around your stolen literature, desperately searching for a book on email development. You must form a reply quickly; there is no telling how long until the Synthetics catch on.

YOU MUST DECIDE:
WILL YOU LEARN TO CODE AN EMAIL?