This blog is now on ASP.NET Core

This blog is a static website compiled using Hugo. Up to this point, I built the website and packaged all of the assets into a Docker container with NGINX which was hosted on my dedicated server cluster.

This worked well and was simple, but I have an upcoming project that I’ll be announcing soon that required dynamic content that nginx + pure static files wasn’t easily able to implement with NGINX.

To fix this, I decided to migrate this blog from NGINX to ASP.NET Core. Here’s how and why.

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Fixing common Hugo encoding problems

I posted a link to my blog on Slack and was greeted with HTML entities right in the website summary. I could see certain characters like the apostrophe ’ being encoded as ’.

Here’s how I fixed this problem.

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Email spam filtering with Rspamd on K8s

I’ve been running my own mail server for well over ten years now. It’s pretty old, so it’s hard to make changes to it, but it’s running in Kubernetes. I was using a mixture of Postfix, OpenDKIM, OpenDMARC, and Amavis for spam filtering with SpamAssasin, but it wasn’t very good at catching spam. Instead, its time move to rspamd. It’s much newer and encapsulates DKIM, DMARC, DNS based blacklisting, bayesian filtering, etc. all in one single tool.

Here’s my notes on migrating, what it took to get it going and some tweaks I made.

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