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  • Making a Yealink contacts directory

    Last post of the year, I hope everybody will have a wonderful 2026, even within those troubled times. I was playing with my Yealink T42s IP phone last night, wanting to make some API endpoint that automatically generates a remote phone book for the phone.The remote phone book uses XML formatted with custom elements that…

  • Porting Resonite’s Headless Server Software to ARM

    I promised it a few months ago, and here it is: ARM support for the Resonite Headless Server Software is now generally available.So, what took so long in doing the port? FrooxEngine itself runs perfectly on ARM CPUs, the issue arising when trying to hit native libraries.Resonite itself relies on about 250 external dependencies, most…

  • Angy paws socks review

    To all the non-furry readers of this humble blog, brace yourselves.I”m very tired from the end of the year, and couldn”t get myself writing more technical stuff, so a socks review is what you get. Recently, I was looking to replace my old socks, bought on SocksDreams years ago, those started to really show their…

  • New captcha-related changes on this blog

    A few months ago, I announced some changes related to comments on this blog following an influx of spam comments.Back then, I chose FriendlyCaptcha as the solution, however, the plugin required some extensive modifications to work with ActivityPub, my custom theme, and custom server, which isn’t really practical on the long run (as it adds…

  • Finally, some good news from Finland

    For the first time in a really long while, I have good news to report from the frozen wasteland also called Finland. As of today, November 24th 2025, the Finnish Red Cross Blood Donation Service will give the same questionnaire, regardless of the gender of the person wanting to donate blood.The question about gender will…

  • PBXes everywhere

    I recently got a Yealink T42S IP phone to play around with. To get that question out of the way first, “why”? Because it”s fun to have a proper phone on my desk. Right now, I have a few PBXes configured on it, in two categories.Proper PBXes where I get a proper phone number: Now,…

  • Announcing Bellingcat challenges

    Over the past half year, I’ve had the pleasure of Collaborating with Bellingcat as a contributor to their OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) challenge platform. For those who aren’t aware, Bellingcat is an independent investigative journalism group based in the Netherlands that publishes investigations using OSINT about war, human rights abuses and the criminal underground (this description…

  • Come meet us at Eurofurence 29

    Quick blog post to advertise the Resonite panel at Eurofurence 29, which should be next week, on Thursday 4th of September. If you are attending Eurofurence, direct yourself to the room CCH X 5-8 at 13:00 (local time). The panel will last approximately an hour and half, and developers and community members will be present.…

  • Your soul has been weighed

    When you visited this blog, you might have noticed a new interstitial screen. This is Anubis, and just like the Egyptian god, it will weigh your soul before granting you entry on my humble blog. This is mainly to stop the slew of bots and other scrappers that hit my blog all the time, those…

  • Reliving history: MeuhMeuhCraft

    MeuhMeuhCraft was a Minecraft server opened in 2013 which continued up until its closure in 2015. Young me, playing Minecraft, joined this server. The factions survival world was where I made some friends, and where I also learned some stuff about the game, such as making potions. It”s last year that a thought came to…