I'm learning Python and following along with the YouTube series, Code with Josh.

I've decided to code inside WSL2 on Windows using PyCharm. And getting this set up and working deserves a tutorial on its own. I started with Run Linux GUI apps on the Windows Subsystem for Linux and went from...

I've struggled with correctly setting up SPF and DMARC for a new VPS. In testing, I thought I had it right after reading many articles and using many online testing websites. But I kept getting failures until I realized my short test code:

cat $FILE | mail -s "Subject: Admin Status" someone@somewh...

I was trying netcat with a simple HTTP GET Request as follows:

nc roamin-nomen.name 80

And then I remembered that you have to end your lines with CRLF:

nc -C roamin-nomen.name 80

That, with the above input, got me th...

I ran into a problem with sending email. I forgot about the need for an SPF record in DNS. For now, I believe a simple entry of "v=spf1 a -all" is all that is needed. However, I'll need to wait for the DNS change to propagate through the system.

The VPS is up and running with the basics. This is a lite VPS with limited memory.

Grav is installed along with PHP and a Web Server.