Great comment.
Great comment. As for programmers fearing servers: all the mail servers I've tried are almost incredibly byzantine, making them stressful to configure and hard to understand. My brother got tired of this and wrote a functioning and mostly conformant SMTP server in less than 50 lines of bash (using djb's tcpserver and delivering to maildrop). As far as I'm concerned, all the configuration I can ever imagine needing for a simple SMTP server could be specified with like max 3 command line switches. So yeah, I think it is a somewhat rational fear, and I don't understand why everything seems so amazingly complex.
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I loathe how difficult Matrix is for normal people though.
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Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any decent alternative.
I'm wondering how much of that is bad developer UX and defaults, and how much of that is inherent complexity in the problem space.
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Great comment.
Great comment. As for programmers fearing servers: all the mail servers I've tried are almost incredibly byzantine, making them stressful to configure and hard to understand. My brother got tired of this and wrote a functioning and mostly conformant SMTP server in less than 50 lines of bash (using djb's tcpserver and delivering to maildrop). As far as I'm concerned, all the configuration I can ever imagine needing for a simple SMTP server could be specified with like max 3 command line switches. So yeah, I think it is a somewhat rational fear, and I don't understand why everything seems so amazingly complex.
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