Comments on: What I’ve Been Thinking and Doing

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:55:32 +0000

Is that book you mentioned Stolen Focus by Johann Hari? Thanks

By: Tynan

Tynan — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 04:01:27 +0000

In reply to Ron Willis. I'm vaccinated. The issue is that I want to use miles to book my flight and stay in my own apartment, but with the change I have to book air + hotel through an agency. I might do it anyway.

By: Ron Willis

Ron Willis — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:24:12 +0000

In reply to David Shaw. He likely means visiting japan without getting a jab.

By: Tynan

Tynan — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 06:00:57 +0000

In reply to Fallon. I send a huge amount of email for Cruisesheet (and am just a nut about hosting my own stuff in general), so it makes sense for me. I've had trouble in the past, but at this point I have the top reputation in both Microsoft and Google. I use a regular postfix setup with some custom stuff I've done to automatically unsubscribe people who report abuse, track engagement, automatically unsubscribe, etc. I also made an easy API so that all of my services (blog, cruisesheet, etc) can send mail easily.

By: Fallon

Fallon — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 05:54:42 +0000

You really have to be a glutton for punishment hosting your own email server, unless you relay it through Google or another provider. I have found getting emails through to people’s inbox is hit or miss. Very difficult to avoid the spam folder. Google has monopolized the inbox and doesn’t play well with little known self hosted servers. Reverse DNS, Dkim, and spf records help to a large degree. Curious to know more about the system you have setup

By: Tynan

Tynan — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 07:50:31 +0000

In reply to Toby. I host it on my own server and wrote my own software for it (hence the issues with people not getting emails sometimes...)

By: Toby

Toby — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 07:37:55 +0000

What do you use for your email server Tynan? Software and hosting? Just curious.

By: Elijah Hova

Elijah Hova — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:35:04 +0000

I enjoyed reading this

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:40:26 +0000

I love projects where you have to make your own thing because nothing out there quite fits your needs. Usually learn lots during and you end up with a bespoke setup that makes you remember the project

By: David Shaw

David Shaw — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:47:04 +0000

Apparently Japan is allowing self-guided tours starting 9/7 (you basically have an itinerary w/ tour company you do yourself). Reddit r/japantravel has good daily updates on it:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/08/31/national/tourism-measures-kishida-covid/