Hacker News: shaicoleman

I've self hosted my email forwarding service on my own domain for over a decade, but eventually gave up because of deliverability issues that were out of my control - primarily with Microsoft's email services.

I've switched 3 years ago to a hosted forwarding service forwardemail.net

Pros:

* Allows to switch email providers if needed

* Allows to forward email to multiple providers

* Allows to store backups of emails

* Allows to have emails on multiple domains for different contexts (personal/professional/projects/etc.)

* Allows to have different email addresses per service. If you get spam on that email address you can just stop forwarding emails for it.

* Allows to have reliable mail rules based on the email address

* Allows also to send emails from multiple addressses

* Most spam is filtered before it reaches the inbox

* Open source

* Would be easy to switch to a different email forwarding service if needed (or self host it).

* Excellent track record over 8+ years

Cons:

* They have the potential to snoop on your emails. Any service that's really important would have 2FA enabled, so I accept the risk.

* They have the potential to send emails on your behalf - again, they've earned my trust, so I accept the risk for that.

* Add another point possible failure. So far I haven't noticed any issues with it.

* There's greylisting that delays emails for 5 minutes if they are not on the whitelist, which affects some of less common sending services.

* In very rare cases, some services ban registering with a forwarding email addresses.

* You need to make sure you don't lose your domain. I renew it 5 years before expiry with a reputable domain registrar (NameCheap).

Overall, it's been working great for me.

Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

shaicoleman — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:37:14 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2025/10/06/google-confirms-non-adb-apk-installs-will-require-developer-registration/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45501888

Points: 58

# Comments: 29

This device uses a laser to shoot down mosquitoes – LiDAR-guided 'Photonmatrix'

shaicoleman — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 13:54:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/this-invention-can-use-lidar-to-shoot-down-30-mosquitoes-per-second-with-a-laser-photonmatrix-range-has-up-to-6-meter-kill-zone-can-gauge-distance-orientation-and-body-size-in-3-milliseconds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44472826

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

mruby 3.4.0

shaicoleman — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:35:52 +0000

Article URL: https://mruby.org/releases/2025/04/20/mruby-3.4.0-released.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788263

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

What You Need to Know About Trump's Tariffs – It's about China

shaicoleman — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:14:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-you-need-to-know-about-trumps-tariffs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43627396

Points: 16

# Comments: 5

Amazon Chime End of Life Feb/2026

shaicoleman — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:42 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/update-on-support-for-amazon-chime/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43107557

Points: 23

# Comments: 9