maiki.xyz, for email and redirects

I maintain the maiki.xyz domain.

It is used for email and HTTP redirects.

Email is essential, and I minimize it

The primary use of the maiki.xyz domain is to serve as the base for any email address I may need.

Email is complicated, but is still being used for a bunch of things, so I chose a path where I could easily silo efforts from each other and spin up new addresses as needed.

Redirects are useful, and here is the laziest way I know

maiki.xyz redirects to maiki.interi.org on the web, which is a static HTML website. It maps URLs directly, so maiki.xyz/example redirects to maiki.interi.org/example.

Then I can just use the static site to control and direct it’s own short-urls to match… it means I edit one line in a text file and I can create any maiki.xyz/redirect I want.

Why bother?

Just to make it a little easier on myself.

  1. So many web services want to spam me, it makes my email not useful any longer, but it’s still essential, so… fuck it, I’m fighting this at a high level!
  2. Short URLs are useful for what I share with folks. This very topic’s URL is: https://notes.maiki.interi.org/t/maiki-xyz-for-email-and-redirects/1025… Also, once someone learns maiki.xyz, I can just drop keywords for, um, maiki things! :smiley:

One idea I’ve had: redirect domain nodes that will have a hyperzine one day, but not yet; redirect them to descriptive info pages on my homepage. :thinking: