A while back I switched my email to Migadu and then again to Proton Mail.
My reasoning for this was because I was a little fed up with managing a mail server and I was increasingly worried that potential employers might not receive my emails.
I can confidently say that my worries were unfounded and I really missed tinkering with my little OpenBSD box in Amsterdam.
So, my mail server is again running on OpenBSD!
If I did everything right, nobody should have noticed.
I’ll have a new PGP key posted at some point.
In December I resurrected my Spotify and Instagram accounts after deleting them in 2020.
After two and a half months of using them both (and deleting them again) here are my observations:
Instagram
Initially things were pretty great.
I was able to reconnect with some friends I hadn’t been in touch with since high school.
Instagram also has a really great format for sharing trip and event photos.
Nevertheless, 99.9% of what you see on Instagram is Tiktok-adjacent shortform content and ads.
Even though you can add accounts to “Favorites” and “Close Friends”, there is no easy way to cut out all the cruft.
After several years of operation I have shutdown Canoemail.
Canoemail started as an experiment in automatically encrypting email at rest and later grew into a private platform which included group chats, video calls, and a search engine.
I learned a lot from running it, but it’s time to give it a rest and move on to bigger things.
If you are someone who used this service or benefitted from it, thank you for your interest and input.
Happy new year!