Current Projects

n1cck.us

Static content website managed using git and Hugo. Hosted on a Le Potato SBC at home - the way the internet should be.

cURL-able Business Card

The goal? Create a business card / contact page that can be accessed well via the command line. You can browse the current version in a web browser or with curl -L n1cck.us/bc

Email

I’ve hosted my own email server for many years. The current stack is pretty simple to keep up, as long as Microsoft doesn’t keep changing their black box spam filtering to specifically exclude small-volume senders. Using the above software stack plus solid DMARC/DKIM/SPF policing I have been able to maintain nearly 100% deliverability across hundreds of domains.

• Postfix: What is Postfix? It is Wietse Venema’s mail server that started life at IBM research as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
• Dovecot: Dovecot is an open-source IMAP and POP3 server for Unix-like operating systems, written primarily with security in mind.
• SpamAssassin: Apache SpamAssassin is the #1 Open Source anti-spam platform giving system administrators a filter to classify email and block spam (unsolicited bulk email).
• rspamd: Rspamd is an advanced spam filtering system and email processing framework that allows evaluation of messages by a number of rules including regular expressions, statistical analysis and custom services such as URL black lists.
• ClamAV: ClamAV® is an open-source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.
• Rainloop: Simple, modern & fast web-based email client. Reaching deprication, will need to replace.
• PostFix Admin: Web based administration interface for Postfix mail servers.

Future projects

This is the listing of projects that pop into my brain when I should be sleeping - also known as “2am masterpieces.”

Mastodon server

In the spirit of decentralizing services and centralizing identity, moving to a self hosted Mastodon instance would make sense. Until then, find me on the contact page or the cURL-able business card

Torro - the TOR/VPN rotator

The concept - create a hub that can rotate among TOR starting proxies to further obfuscate endpoint traffic.