After waving a fond farewell to Fossil I give a hearty hello to Phabricator!
The Good Phabricator is written in PHP which means I don’t have to install Yet Another Framework. I use quite a few things that depend on PHP on this site already, such as Grav and RoundCube. So of course, it allows me to self host. Or you can rent a Phabricator VPS @ Phacility.
The sign up process (to my Phabricator instance, not somewhere else) is very straight-forward, allowing email/password with ReCaptha or use a OAuth2 provider such as Google.
I rarely talk about work here. But in this case I will because although it’s unrelated entirely to my Open Source projects it’s actually very enjoyable for a change because we have the change to use some cutting edge tech. Like any large and old product there are crusty bits- some of ours are so crusty they are implemented in Visual Basic 6. So Management have give us the green light to replace a large chunk of that and now that we’re part of a bigger business (the joy’s of being bought by a large company) we have a mandate to use relevant tech.
Before I had my first child, I knew that mindlessly buying the latest tech would have to stop. So when the child was being developed, I treated myself to the ultimate gaming rig having the most expensive nVidia card What I failed to apprecaite was that after buying a larger house and having a third child would terminally stunt my ability to maintain my gaming PC to acceptable levels. By acceptable, I mean the ability to power on and work as designed at this point.
I’ve been trying to run an IPv6 tunnel without much success- it’s far to laggy to use for real work. So I’ve turned that off, and I just noticed I’m now getting an IPv6 Router Advertisement across my Super Hub3 in modem mode. I’ve gotten a default route AND a online prefix option to 2a02:8800:f000:2120::/64 (but sadly, no auto config flag). This prefix is owned by Virgin Media.
So, I can ping the router but nothing else as I don’t have a public IPv6 IP address.
In my continuing efforts to entirely self host, fighting spam is hard. I originally configured SpamAssassin on my mail server quite a few years ago, and to be fair it has done it’s job. But recently, more spam has been creeping through and my ever growing stack of addons (such as policyd-spf, OpenDKIM, OpenDMARC and others) to SA was eating quite a lot of memory on my poor server.
So I shopped around and found Rspamd.
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