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Posts by Michael
Are there any negative effects[1] when sending an email wherein the From header is an email address on my server's domain but the Reply-To header is an email address on a different domain, specific...
You can use ASCII representations of hexagonal grid maps as shown on Rogue Basin.[1] If doing so feels less tedious than making a picture directly, you could take this map and write a script to bui...
Jon Ericson[1] is working on pretty much what you asked for. It seems to be Discourse with a different base configuration that emails collaborators by default. There is a free open Beta for small c...
Philip K. Dick would posit[1] that the surface war is all done by robots. The robots lie about what is happening on the surface, and ended the war as soon as no one could independently verify the s...
I used to use AbeBooks, which I understand to be owned by Amazon. My experience has been good. Most of the books I've purchased appear to be purged from various libraries (for shelf space?) in pret...
On sandboxes For sandboxed development and test environments, I have found mkcert to be pretty helpful. It creates a root CA and happily creates certificates for whatever DNS you want. mkcert war...
[Does] information content scale linearly with length, regardless of topic? Information content pretty clearly doesn't scale linearly with length. I used to joke that The Scarlet Letter author...
Relevant to you A single certificate is easier to manage, rotate, etc. Borderline Before Server Name Indication (SNI), you could only bind one certificate to each IP/Port combination on ...
I asked the city and they told me that just dumping it in the garbage bin is fine. I doubt you're going to have a more authoritative answer than that. I take mine to the help desk at Staples o...
Jon wrote Building a Lord of the Rings keyboard this week about getting a mechanical keyboard. I definitely commiserate with his membrane keyboard complaint: But then I discovered that the "A" k...
I submit that neither direction is completely the case, but laws are typically the formalization of norms. They may be widely-respected norms[1] or merely codifying the norms (or hoped-for norms) o...
I do not think this list belongs on Codidact. I am not opposed to asking on Codidact if such a list exists, though. Sam Carter suggested looking at OpenStreetMap, a suggestion I endorse. You could...
