Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-12
easywall: A Firewall That Gives You 120 Seconds to Undo a Mistake
An open-source Linux firewall manager that puts nftables behind a web interface and automatically reverts risky rule changes unless you confirm them.
Why it surfacedeasywall treats the classic remote-firewall lockout as a design problem: applying rules starts a 120-second confirmation window, and losing the connection is enough to restore the previous rules. Its two-process privilege isolation, structured Go rules, audit log, Docker coexistence, and live demo make this more than a thin dashboard.
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Ice Does Not Count
August 12’s newborn domains include a rule-bound archive of enormous sodas, 27 family stories cut from one afternoon, a disaster-supply map with a 24-hour freshness rule, and an ocean bell that rings only when six conditions agree.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-12 Domain Arrivals issue.