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summary: Incredibly secure, easy to use, but are it's trade-offs worth it?
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summary: Incredibly secure, easy to use, but are it's trade-offs worth it?
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Throughout my life, I've had many different email providers, starting with hotmail almost 10 years ago. In more recent years, I've been focusing more on ways I can secure my emails, both from potential intruders, or governments. No, I may not have anything to hide, but that doesn't mean I don't want the information I to have to be accessible easily.
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Throughout my life, I've had many different email providers, starting with hotmail almost 10 years ago. In more recent years, I've been focusing more on ways I can secure my emails. No, I may not have anything to hide, but that doesn't mean I don't want the information I to have to be accessible easily.
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Originally I thought the best way to keep things secure, and out of the hands of any government body was to host it all myself. This came with a number of problems, mostly due to my lack of experience running anything like this, which lead to problems with my spam filter not running, and any emails I did send ending up in peoples spam folders. It was after this I decided to look into hosted options, I'm happy to pay money to have someone else look after the email servers for me, even if that's at the cost of using another companies infrastructure.
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Originally I thought the best way to keep things secure, and out of the hands of any government body was to host it all myself. This came with a number of problems, mostly due to my lack of experience running anything like this, which lead to problems with my spam filter blocking legitimate emails, and any emails I did send ending up in their spam folder. It was after this I decided to look into hosted options, I'm happy to pay money to have someone else look after the email servers for me, even if that's at the cost of using another companies infrastructure.
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After searching around for a while, I stumbled on a company called _ProtonMail_, who claimed to be the most secure email host ever. Reading into the technologies they use, and watching one of their team members on a TED talk, I realised they weren't lying, their platform really was secure!
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After searching around for a while, I stumbled on a company called _ProtonMail_, who claimed to be the most secure email host ever. Reading into the technologies they use, and watching one of their team members on a TED talk, I realised they weren't lying, their platform really was secure!
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ProtonMail use a combination of open-source technologies, a closed-access platform, and swiss data centers to protect emails better than anyone else! The only way you can access your emails is by using their custom apps for Android, iOS, and web. Whilst this is annoying, it does mean the system isn't accessible through conventional protocols such as IMAP and POP3, which would considerably lower the security. The web portal itself is entirely open-source, and highly encourages any contributions, which should help make the platform even more secure, and help pump out features fast.
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ProtonMail use a combination of open-source technologies, a closed-access platform, and swiss data centers to protect emails better than anyone else! The only way you can access your emails is by using their custom apps for Android, iOS, and web. Whilst this is annoying, it does mean the system isn't accessible through conventional protocols such as IMAP and POP3, which would considerably lower the security. The web portal itself is entirely open-source, and highly encourages any contributions, which should help make the platform even more secure, and help pump out features fast.
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In April 2016, I signed up to ProtonMail's _Plus_ tier, and switched all my domains to use their servers as an email provider. The setup process itself was incredibly simple, it showed you every DNS record you needed to create, so all you had to do was copy-paste! It also showed you extra records you could add to aid the security of your emails, and protect against people sending out emails using your domain, including DKIM signatures, and SPF records.
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Back in April, I signed up to ProtonMail's _Plus_ tier, and switched all my domains to use their servers as an email provider. The setup process itself was incredibly simple, it showed you every DNS record you needed to create, so all you had to do was copy-paste! It also showed you extra records you could add to aid the security of your emails, and protect against people sending out emails using your domain, including DKIM signatures, and SPF records.
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### The Problems
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### The Problems
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Yes, this does mean I've paid for a service I'm technically no longer using. Which does annoy me, but considering it'll be used to help out the platform in the future, and I have every intention of switching back once it's got all the features I need, I can live with it.
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Yes, this does mean I've paid for a service I'm technically no longer using. Which does annoy me, but considering it'll be used to help out the platform in the future, and I have every intention of switching back once it's got all the features I need, I can live with it.
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## Next Steps
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## Next Steps
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After looking around the internet for a suitable replacement, I settled on [FastMail](https://fastmail.com/?STKI=14665249). I've seen good things from RackSpace, OX and RunBox, but FastMail has all the features I need, with an easy-to-use interface, a cheap price tag, and a pretty decent security policy. For someone looking for a simple to use email provider, that's reasonably secure, and feature-rich, I can't recommend [FastMail](https://fastmail.com/?STKI=14665249) highly enough!
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After looking around the internet for a suitable replacement, I settled on [FastMail](https://fastmail.com/?STKI=14665249) for a while, so I could get all the features I actually need, unfortunately sacrificing security.
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##### __Update__
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After being with [FastMail](https://fastmail.com/?STKI=14665249) now for almost a year, I'm moving back to ProtonMail. All issues listed above have now been fixed, and IMAP / SMTP support is currently in closed beta! I can finally have my security back!
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summary: Introducing React-Native to the rest of the office
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summary: Introducing React-Native to the rest of the office
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Recently, at DabApps, we've been migrating our mobile app workflow over to using [react-native](https://facebook.github.io/react-native/) instead of [Ionic](http://ionicframework.com/), mainly because of its near native performance and cross-platform codebase. For the first few projects, there were only a couple of us that knew how to use React Native effectively, and work around the _qwerks_ it has. With the number of app projects growing, we needed to get more people up to speed with the react native workflow, as quickly as possible.
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Recently, at DabApps, we've been migrating our mobile app workflow over to using [react-native](https://facebook.github.io/react-native/) rather than [Ionic](http://ionicframework.com/), mainly because of its near native performance. For the first few projects, there were only a couple of us that knew how to use React Native effectively, and work around the _qwerks_ it has. With the number of app projects growing, we needed to get more people up to speed with the react native workflow, as quickly as possible.
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The workflow that we needed to adopt to use react native is an odd one. To keep the quality of our code at the highest possible, whilst keeping the codebase as maintainable as possible. The workflow we use was created by 4 of us, through experiences with both work and personal projects using the framework, and it works rather well. The only problem was that only 4 of us actually knew it very well.
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The workflow that we needed to adopt to use react native is an odd one. To keep the quality of our code at the highest possible, whilst keeping the codebase as maintainable as possible. The workflow we use was created by 4 of us, through experiences with both work and personal projects using the framework, and it works rather well. The only problem was that only 4 of us actually knew it.
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After one of the developers wanted to know our workflow, with a couple of potential app projects on the horizon, I set about creating a talk for our (_usually_) bi-weekly dev meetings. With the aim of trying to get everyone up to speed all in 1 go.
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After a colleague wanted to know more about react-native, and with a couple of potential app projects on the horizon, I set about creating a talk for our (_usually_) bi-weekly dev meetings, With the aim of trying to get everyone up to speed all in 1 go.
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The slides from my talk are available on my [GitHub](https://github.com/RealOrangeOne/react-native-intro-dev-meeting) page, and whilst they are primarily relevant to our workflow, I hope they will be able to help anyone else looking to get started with React Native.
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The slides from my talk are available on my [GitHub](https://github.com/RealOrangeOne/react-native-intro-dev-meeting) page, and whilst they are primarily relevant to our workflow, I hope they will be able to help anyone else looking to get started with React Native.
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React Native is a tricky platform to get started on, but once you understand the _qwerks_, it truly is the future of cross-platform mobile development!
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React Native is a tricky platform to get started on, but once you understand the _qwerks_, I believe it truly is the future of cross-platform mobile development!
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[Click here to view the slides](http://realorangeone.github.io/react-native-intro-dev-meeting/)
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[Click here to view the slides](http://realorangeone.github.io/react-native-intro-dev-meeting/)
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summary: Fixing "`libGL error: failed to load driver: i965`"
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Running steam on linux is great, except for the game support obviously. But running it on an iGPU has recently been causing me problems, mainly under Arch.
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Running steam on linux is great, besides for the game support obviously. But running it on an iGPU has recently been causing me problems, mainly under Arch.
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