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How and why I'm not running my own DNS | Pete Keen
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How and why I'm not running my own DNS. 3 min read — Get free updates of new posts here. A few months ago I posted about how I run my own DNS servers. Buy the entire collection of DNS articles as a nicely formatted ebook. Second, and really more importantly, this happened:. Before I decided to go the route of self-hosting I had investigated a few different providers. The most promising of these was Amazon's Route53. Http:/ ip.example.com. Here's the code for the webservice:. I think I learned a valuable ...
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Command Line Faxing | Pete Keen
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2 min read — Get free updates of new posts here. When I started Okapi LLC. My little consultancy and publishing house, I had to fax in some forms to the State of Michigan. The entire system for opening businesses in Michigan, in fact, is basically a fax driven API. Being a modern, hip millenial I don't subscribe to a land line phone, nor do I own a fax machine. How was I supposed to fax things? They have a whole bunch of fax machines (actually they're probably banks of modems. Which means you don't have ...
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Essays | Pete Keen
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I've been writing and publishing essays on this site since 2010. Here they are, gathered into topics. If you'd like to see them chronologically check out the full archive. Best Of (start here). Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails. A concise ebook packed with helpful tips and juicy best practices for integrating Stripe into your Rails application. DNS: The Good Parts. Dig through the DNS and learn how and why it all works. Program your Finances: Command-line Accounting. Book Review: The Box.
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DKIM Deep Dive | Pete Keen
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3 min read — Get free updates of new posts here. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is another type of email deliverability record that helps recipient servers be confident that you authorized any given email. DKIM uses public-key-cryptography to mathematically sign important parts of your messages. This post is a deep dive into how it works and what it's good for. Why do we need DKIM? Like SPF, DKIM. DKIM has more moving parts than SPF. Specifically, there are:. Private keys on your mail server. Says tha...
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Program Your Finances: Envelope Budgeting | Pete Keen
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Program Your Finances: Envelope Budgeting. 6 min read — Get free updates of new posts here. Note: you can find much more information about ledger on ledger-cli.org. Including links to official documentation and other implementations. Also, check out my intro to accounting with Ledger. A few years ago I heard about YNAB, or You Need A Budget. YNAB is a set of rules. And associated software that help people to dig themselves out of financial holes and prosper with a budget. The rules are:. If you've ever t...
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Tagged Personal Finance | Pete Keen
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Articles tagged with 'Personal Finance'. Organizing Your Consulting Business. This is an excerpt from my upcoming book Handle Your Business - the Succinct Guide to Money and Finance for the Self-Employed. Enter your email at the bottom for updates, early access, and a coupon when the book launches. This may seem like a trivial point, but you only get the benefits of a business. As long as other people believe it exists. What are those benefits, you ask? The liability shield built into the business might ...
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Software Articles | Pete Keen
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This site started as and continues to be a place where I can explore the craft of software development. Below you'll find articles on such diverse topics as Perl, C , Ruby, Python, Git, and more. I've published quite a bit of open source software on my Projects page. Including much of what you'll find in these articles. Know How To Roll (Your SSL Certificates). A few weeks ago Stripe's SSL certificate became invalid. Along with several other major sites. When I started Okapi LLC. All you have to do is go...
