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Prerequisites:

  • A domain
  • Cloudflare account with the domain managed by CF

  • A Gmail inbox for receiving and sending (preferably a non personal account)

    A: Receiving Mail:

  • Open Cloudflare

  • Sign in to your account

  • Select your domain > Select “email” in sidebar > then Routing rules

  • Press “Create Address”

  • Fill out details, ensuring Action is “send to email” (if making a no-reply address, set this to drop)

  • Repeat steps 4-5 for each additional receiving address

  • Navigate to the DNS tab and add a TXT Record with the following:

    NAME: @
TTL: AUTO
CONTENTS: "v=spf1 include:_spf.mx.cloudflare.net include:_spf.google.com ~all"

B: Sending Mail.

This gets its own section as this is harder. 1. Create a Google App Password for the receiving account, you can do this at https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords, keep this safe in a password manager, you'll need it when adding new aliases to gMail 2. Press settings > All Settings > Accounts and Import > Add another email address (under Send Mail As) 3. Fill the popup form out with your desired name and email 4. gMail attempts to fill out the config with Cloudflare info by default, like below, however we need to change this so that gMail is in charge of the SMTP server

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5. Press add account and repeat steps 3-4 for each additional sending address

Security

This is not needed per se but is recommended if you don't want email spoofing to happen as easily, but is complicated. 1. Add a DNS Record like shown in Part A, Step 7, this time set it's content to: v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected] for multiple addresses, simply comma separate them like this: v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected], [email protected]

Now your email is configured!

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What now?

Step Sequence is a basic sequencer tool by Kevin Macleod (yes, the dude who makes those iconic royalty-free tracks also makes software), it is by far my favorite web based song creator, it sure isnt advanced by any means but is simple, somehow even simpler than Chrome Music Lab but is no where near as advanced as something like Online Sequencer

How can I try it?

Grab anything with a modern browser, whether it be ya nan's smart fridge, ya mate's smart TV or even ya mums fucking amazon smart-alec show thingo, fire up the browser and navigate to https://danger.academy/step/

Drawbacks

  • It works using Midis, so you're best recording your screen and extracting audio that way as when played outside of StepSequence its up to your system to decide how it sounds
  • It has no import function to reimport previous tracks

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Finally- I think i've found a blogging tool i can use

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