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Confession: I Had No Idea How My Mac Contacts App Worked (Until I Found the Option Key) For the longest time, my Mac Contacts app was an absolute disaster zone. Because I have my personal iCloud, a Google account and a work Exchange account all synced to one machine, my address book looked like a digital junk drawer. I was… Continue reading MacOS X: Contacts Application
Most small businesses solve “we need a phone number with voicemail” by paying a flat monthly fee to a service like Google Voice or OpenPhone. That’s a perfectly reasonable choice — but if you’d rather own the code, pay only for what you actually use, and have full control over the call flow, you can build the same thing yourself… Continue reading Azure: Building your own voicemail-to-email service in the cloud
Running the Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) reliably on a modern Linux server requires a proper service manager. By default, ASSP needs to start as root to bind to privileged mail ports (like port 25), after which it forks and spawns its main worker processes under a non-privileged user like nobody. Using a custom systemd service file allows Linux to seamlessly… Continue reading How to Run ASSP As A Systemd Service With Systemctl
I recently upgraded my system from Fedora 42 to Fedora 43 after Fedora 42 reached end-of-life. When I started ASSP, I received errors indicating that the required Perl modules were incorrect or missing, so I decided to run mod_inst.pl again to reinstall the necessary modules. I downloaded the latest mod_inst.pl from the ASSP website and ran it, but it immediately… Continue reading ASSP mod_inst.pl Error After Upgrading Fedora 42 to 43
The Hermes AI Agent is an incredibly powerful tool right in your terminal, capable of running commands, reading files, and interacting with your local machine. But what if you want to access its power from outside theterminal? What if you could programmatically send tasks to your agent? This is where a core, and sometimes overlooked, feature comes into play: the… Continue reading Unlocking Hermes: A Guide to Setting Up the API Gateway
So I finally got around to installing something so I can host my own calendar and contacts so that data is not shared with the big four corporate companies. As I just need basic calendar and contacts functionality I chose the open source project Radicale. As I have run Fedora to control the house and my private data since 1998… Continue reading Installed Radicale3 for hosting my own calendar and contacts data
Not sure what happened to this or why but its no longer available. I used to have a script that used it to convert binary data to text for attachments on emails. Having searched high and low I came up with a new solution – use openssl. You can do the same that you were doing with mmencode by doing… Continue reading MMEncode is not available on Linux distros any more.
On running from the Xamarin studio, I could no longer deploy to the companie’s Motorola Ultra. From the deploy to device window I was seeing the following error: [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE] This normally means that there is an old version hanging around on the device which you can’t overwrite – usually because the older version is signed and the new version is… Continue reading Xamarin: Unable to install new debug version of Android app on a Motorola Ultra
Over the last couple of weeks I was very privileged to have some of the software that I have worked on being used for the 57th Presidential Inauguration. It is probably my biggest career moment ever – so far ! My employer Global Emergency Resources LLC landed a contract to supply the first aid locations and command centers with their… Continue reading Global Emergency Resources LLC – 57th Presidential Inauguration.
So I find that my MySQL database is running high on CPU all of a sudden. I optimize the tables etc and no difference. I hunt around the internet to find that there seems to be a problem with this years leap second adjustment which sends MySQL into orbit. The solution reset the date date -s “`date`” and it dropped… Continue reading MySQL pegging CPU after the leap second adjustment.