147 Strangers Were Sending Mail as My Domain and I Had No Idea

For years I had no idea who was sending email as justplainsimple.com. Not a vague sense. No idea at all. I knew the theory. SPF says which servers may send for you. DKIM signs your mail so it survives a forward. DMARC ties those to the domain in the From: header a human actually reads, and tells receivers what to do when neither lines up. I have explained this to other people. I had implemented none of it on my own domain. ...

September 20, 2026 · 8 min · 1567 words · Scott Brown

Introducing Patina: A Tool for Finding Stale Repositories in Your GitHub Organization

Over the years, GitHub organizations tend to accumulate repositories. Some are actively maintained, others slowly fade into obscurity, and a few become completely forgotten. Without a systematic way to assess repository health across an entire organization, it’s easy to lose track of what’s actively maintained and what’s collecting digital dust. I built Patina to solve this problem. What is Patina? Patina is a command-line tool that scans GitHub organizations to identify and assess repository freshness. The name comes from the surface coating that forms on materials over time—a fitting metaphor for detecting code that’s been left untouched. ...

December 5, 2025 · 4 min · 652 words · Scott Brown