Accessing your computers from remote at home isn't easy since you lack a public IP address in most cases. A workaround is to use a server with a public IP address as an entrance to a meshed tinc virtual private network (VPN).

Syncthing is a great tool for keeping machines in sync. This is quick write-up on how to configure automatic start with systemd on server. Important: This is different from setting it up on a client machine. In this case you would run it as the user logged in.

Update: In the previous version of this post, the sequence of the credentials in /etc/dma/auth.conf was wrong.

Not a long time ago, in a previous post, I recommended to use nullmailer for a simple send-only mail transfer agent to relay system mail. I must revise that advice because of two reasons:

Setting up a development environment had always been difficult but became much easier with the lunch of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Because Windows's default terminal cmd is a shame and I prefer using zsh over bash, I recommend to do the following:

Update: See this updated post on why you should not use nullmailer but dma for relaying system mail.