A Brit living in Cork, using this domain for experimenting with different technologies and this site as a public notebook so I can revisit/reimplement projects in the future.
Current experiments
This Blog
- Hugo via S3 and CloudFront
- https://forestry.io/ as the WYSIWYG
- Github to host the source code and auto build / deploy the static HTML to S3 on each repo push either direct or from a forestry.io post
- Security benchmark chasing with https://observatory.mozilla.org and https://www.ssllabs.com using Lambda@Edge on request / respone to add HSTS and other security headers
Past Experiments
Email via Protonmail
Not much to say about this - custom domain hosted on protonmail, use my PGP public cert when emailing me if you’re a big enough geek! Whilst fun, I abandoned the personal email server. Trying to keep it cheap by running it on a t3a.micro made it unreliable and loathed to pay more to make it stable (i.e a t3a.small or t3a.medium), when I can just pay someone else less for a better service
I also abandoned Protonmail. So stx.ie has no email, use my linkedin or some good ol’ fashioned snooping if you want to talk.
Email server
- EC2
t3.micro, with mailbox stored on EFS - iRedMail
- Letsencrypt
- Security benchmark chasing again. 100% across the board on SSL Labs, because why not.
- ClamAV with additional signatures courtesy of https://github.com/extremeshok/clamav-unofficial-sigs
- DMARC / DKIM / SPF implemented