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The Journey to YouFibre

TLDR: I've just had YouFibre 8000 installed, it's great! There were many chapters to the story to get to the conclusion but I'm there now, and all is good... mostly. But it is a long tale... hence the TLDR. I've recently had

Enabling native ARM64 builds with Github Actions

For a while now I've been running Broadcaster.VC's github actions on a spare machine I have in the office. Building things for both x64 and arm64 could take some time and if I let those builds happen on Github's hosted runners I ran

YubiKey protected SSH Keys

This is something I've been meaning to try out for a while now but never found the right moment in time to just do it . Just because you have access to an SSH key on a file system, why should that mean you have the right to use

The Met's idea of Authentication

Let me first just show you the tweet from the Met Police about their solution to plain clothed officer authentication following the killing of Sarah Everard by a Met police officer. Any lone, plain clothed police officer who engages with a woman on her own will now verify their identity

Announcing Broadcaster.VC

Running CommCon Virtual back in July was a real eye opener for me. I'd always been interested in the technical side of running events but I went to University, got into Coding and then started Nimble Ape - a RTC Consultancy specialising in Open Source WebRTC/VoIP and Web

Remote Working: Conferencing Services

Today's post was going to be about SIP over TLS and Secure media but I decided this was more important to release as soon as I could. With more and more countries locking down their borders and encouraging their citizens not to meet in person we're

Remote Working: Get rid of your VPN and use an SBC

This is the first of a series of blog posts this week about remote working - come back each day for something new! Last week Chris from Crosstalk Solutions recorded a video titled " Telecommunications 101 " on his YouTube channel. If you haven't watched it already, it'

Github Sponsorships

I finally got word this morning that the Nimble Ape GitHub org can accept GitHub sponsorships - which is excellent news. Don't know about GitHub sponsors? Have a read over at https://github.com/sponsors . GitHub has enabled that "Sponsor" button on repos for a while now

Powering my House & EV

I thought it was about to time I wrote something non work related on here. I often get asked by colleagues/friends about how I power my home. They know I have a Tesla Model S, they know I have Solar panels and they know I have "home batteries&

I'll be at Open Source World (ITExpo)

I'm back to work after the Christmas break and I just wanted to say I'll be speaking at Open Source World at ITExpo 11-14 February talking about building Voice Bots with Dialogflow and Open Source Software readily available today. While the rest of ITExpo has

Giving thanks to OSS

So 2019 is coming to a close and what a year it's been. This is the time of year to reflect on the previous 12 months; both the good and the bad. This year we're not just thinking about the past 12 months but the past

Screen-Sharing with Asterisk's SFU

Whilst building the Dana project I wanted to add in the ability to screen share - it's pretty much a norm in any WebRTC conferencing application nowadays. What isn't so much the norm is the ability to send both your webcam video stream and your screen-share;

Dana & AudioServer - Transcription

For years now we've been asking for a new feature in Asterisk that enabled us to get a raw stream of audio out of Asterisk in a usable form that allowed us to integrate with speech to text engines, bot platforms etc and that became a possibility in

Twitter, 2FA and WebAuthn

TLDR; Go enable 2FA with either a security key or Authentication App on twitter today! Twitter's had 2FA for a while - both via SMS and via an Authentication App such as Google's Authenticator or Authy. The difference to today is that you used to need to

My thoughts on Google Cloud Contact Center AI

TLDR; it's amazing but has a key issue for users not using commercial platforms. I've been lucky enough to have done some consulting work recently with one of the largest VoIP providers on the planet; where I got to play with the different aspects of CCAI