I learned about this book written by Adam who founded the SeaGL conference.

https://selfhostbook.com/

I’ve been self hosting for years and bought it to support him. I like the style of writing and how he explains the concepts.

This works great so far for the first few checkpoints on the delta emulator for iOS.

catch-all addresses just work with correct from address when replying

What do you mean by this? I’d like to be able to reply from a [email protected] automatically.

For me Thunderbird makes me create an alias in order to reply to my catch all (*@mydomain.com). Did you have to configure something specifically?

I recently discovered an alternative to these minimalist phones. On the iPhone I am able to setup “Focus” modes. You can tune which applications give notifications while in the focus mode. So when I’m in my work focus mode I block out notifications for all apps except Outlook and Teams. Then you can also adjust the focus mode to change your Lock Screen widgets and Home Screen layout. So you can prioritize the items you want to see.

Then additionally I setup screen time limits on social media sites like Instagram. I set a 30 min limit per day. Then if I want to bypass that limit I need to make a decision to do it.

I feel like these tools have let me wrestle back control of my device usage. Now I can’t get sucked into hours long Instagram scrolling sessions.