TL;DR: I explain very superficially how our minds work, starting from our body, following with our sense of reality, and ending with our states of consciousness and personalities. I dive briefly into dreams and hypnosis, paving the road for a future article. Disclaimer I’ve started taking an interest in lucid dreaming around 2013, self-studying and training in various kinds of hypnosis from 2015 to 2020, and been working as a hypnotherapist since 2016 up to now. [Read More]

TL;DR: I worked on OpenSMTPD-portable, did a lot of plakar, a lot of Go and gave a technical talk on hypnosis. Shout outs to my patrons ! A huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon, github or liberaPay, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsors. Let’s start with some LoFi Relax. I have a youtube channel (subscribe ! now ! [Read More]

TL;DR: I wrote a backup utility called plakar. Shout outs to my patrons ! As usual, a huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon, github or liberaPay, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsorship. Let’s start with some LoFi Relax. I have a youtube channel (subscribe ! now !) Plakar: Yet another backup utility ? Yes, I wrote another backup utility. [Read More]

TL;DR: I converted nooSMTPD to libtls and implemented SMTP ciphers, curves and protocols selection. Shout outs to my patrons ! As usual, a huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon, github or liberaPay, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsorship. Let’s start with some LoFi Relax. I have a youtube channel (subscribe ! now !) Nothing new in OpenSMTPD-portable eric@ sent a libtls-conversion diff to tech@ last month but there hasn’t been much progress since then. [Read More]

TL;DR: I do LoFi now, eric@ revived some libtls conversion work I did a while back, I worked on UNIX-domain sockets support in OpenSMTPD, a few words about nooSMTPD Shout outs to my patrons ! As usual, a huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon, github or liberaPay, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsorship. Let’s start with some LoFi Relax. [Read More]

TL;DR: In this article, I explain what is an MDA and how to write a custom one from scratch using only shell scripting. Shout outs to my patrons ! As usual, a huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon, github or liberaPay, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsorship. What is a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) ? When a mail enters an SMTP server it is initially stored in the server queue before being moved to its next destination. [Read More]

TL;DR: - Crafted the OpenSMTPD 6.8.0p1 release - Fixed several bugs in the way - Proposed a few OpenSMTPD improvements to OpenBSD - Working on my OpenSMTPD book Shout outs to my patrons ! As usual, a huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon, github or liberaPay, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsorship. Let’s start with some LoFi Relax. About sponsorship First of all, I must say how grateful and happy I am that people value my work enough to trust and sponsor me, I appreciate it a lot and it is a huge motivation booster. [Read More]

TL;DR: Haven't posted since July but I wasn't slacking, got temporarily context-switched out of opensource stuff. I tanked a year in work psychology As some of you know, I study work psychology and have been attending evening classes for the last four years, sometimes up to 9 hours / week and more often between 3 and 6 hours / week. I’m pretty invested as you can tell, it’s a lot of time that I could spend in bed but that I spend in class instead :-) [Read More]

TL;DR: worked on my webmail, on a custom MDA and on a python framework for API development. Shout outs to my patrons ! As usual, a huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon or github, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsorship. Worked on my webmail Again, I’d like to emphasize that this is something that’s going to span over many months so… don’t hold your breath. [Read More]

TL;DR: Reworked my infrastructure at poolp.org, implemented folder pinning, worked on my webmail. Shout outs to my patrons ! As usual, a huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon or github, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsorship. poolp.org infrastructure rework I decided to move my servers from online.net to vultr.com (affiliation link). I have been at online.net for hosting since 2007 and have always been happy with their services, however OpenBSD has never been supported there and I always had to use custom install procedures and hope things go well. [Read More]