A bit stressed. Next week I'll have to pick up a locked down #Windows laptop from a client to connect to their system. I haven't been forced to touch a Windows machine in like 7 years. Windows isn't made for technical people, and locking them down is like something that should have stayed in the 1990s.

Someone tell me why this is a good or bad idea: I self host my own email service. Due to the nature of email, I obviously need to read and send email from my phone, my laptop at home (dynamic ip), maybe with the laptop when using outside wifi. Now, all that will use TLS, strong passwords, etc. However, I don't want IMAP, and the SMTP submission port to really be open to the wide internet. Why could I not, run python app in an AWS Lambda function, listening on an encrypted API that sends a key, I validate that, and if valid, I take the source address of the call, store it in DynamoDB with a timestamp, and pop it into the security group of the mail service? Bang. Access granted. Then, the Lambda function cleans up any ip that hasn't been seen within the last 10 minutes and closes that hole in the security group if needed.

There are few things better than pre-ordering a book, forgetting about it, and then it popping through your door as a surprise. Gonna enjoy this one by @pluralistic