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Running Your Own Mail Server: Lessons from 25+ Years of Chaos and Custody
Email is one of the oldest, most decentralized, and most politically fraught services on the Internet.
It’s also one of the messiest topics in self-hosting, Homelab, and other scenarios where you take operational responsibility for a service often best left to experts.
You can’t become an expert without getting your hands a bit dirty, though. Let me set the stage so you understand where these opinions come from. Experience often dictates perspective, and mine comes from over 25 years of running mail servers in some form.
More ...Your Intensity Brings Meaning
“We’ve traded intensity for meaning.”
I saw that line while scrolling LinkedIn between meetings yesterday, and it refused to let go. By the afternoon, I was repeating it in a meeting with an IT vendor who wanted help stabilizing a product that’s been mostly vibe-coded.
Features are shipping daily, and progress is reported almost constantly, but the product is getting closer to the goal - and further from it at the same time.
More ...Getting in Touch
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