Projects on A Personal Blog and Professional Portfolio for Connor Grout

Self-Hosting Email Experimentation

Fri, 09 May 2025 16:07:03 -0500

Today I decided that I will try setting up my own email service at home using a combination of Stalwart, SWAG (an NGINX w/ some extras baked in), and AWS SES. Now the method I’ve chosen mixes a lot of technologies; It also took me a few days of banging my head on the desk and running into numerous roadblocks, but I think I’ve found the solution that I’ve been after that is both functional and secure as well as low maintenance with minimal headaches.

A Quick Post About Migrating On-Prem GitHub Enterprise Servers

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:45:04 -0400

This will be a really quick post, because I’d like to share this with anyone who is dealing with a GitHub Enterprise Server (GHE) migration. This is for specifically a GHE -> GHE migration. The use case is we have an air-gapped GHE server in one domain and we are standing up a new one in another domain. We will have to migrate all of the repositories and the Actions as well.

Senior Capstone Project

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:45:04 -0500

This is a special blog post that will cover, drumroll please.. My Senior Capstone Project! In 2018 as part of my Bachelor of Science degree I had to complete a Senior Capstone Project, and present the project to my peers as well as attend the University of Cincinnati’s CECH (College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services) IT Expo.