It ends today, the procrastination which blights the path to success.

Enough is enough.

For a long time I’ve had ambitions, dreams of working for myself as a freelance software engineer, but keep stalling due to lack of focus. Hesitation, fear of failure, this blog-post is served to you, consider this your final notice.

In the upcoming days, I will complete and implement the proposed designs for my website, this goal which I have been putting off for so long will finally be realised. If I don’t achieve this, I will have failed myself, so I am announcing to the world my intentions (theoretically), and will document each day’s progress and short-comings.

I know I can produce software and finish, during the summer of 2012 I released a near-final version of my ‘Poly Peptide Delta Mass and Properties Calculator’, codenamed Peptide.io. Since then, I’ve half-completed projects, released...

Hello, internet traveller! In this post I hope to cover the steps required to easily setup free email hosting for a custom domain, e.g., me@someone.com, AND sign outbound emails to prevent tricksters spoofing emails from your domain.

You’ve bought a snazzy new domain for yourself, and now you’re eyeing up a beautiful short email address such as hi@rob.pw, but you don’t want to run mail server software yourself for obvious reasons. That’s cool, good on you for taking the judo-solution.

The approach is simple, and fortunately there are many free email hosting providers out there that will take up your domain, and safely handle your emails!

Prior to writing this article, I was using Outlook.com to send/receive emails meant for my domain; however, apparently Outlook.com no longer support custom domains, so I won’t be covering this method.

The adventure begins

In this guide I’ll be...