Why Build a VoIP Lab in 2025?

The goal isn't to replace my mobile phone. It's to have a playground for voice technologies that are increasingly relevant in modern applications: IVR systems, conversational AI, voice assistants, and telephony integrations.

I wanted to experiment with:

• IVR systems (Interactive Voice Response) - those "press 1 for sales" menus
• Voice AI integration
• SIP protocol internals - understanding modern telephony at a deeper level
• Conversational interfaces - prototyping voice-driven applications

Sometimes the best lessons come from projects that humble you. Meet Illico.be, my side project for organizing board game nights with friends and family. What started as a simple playground to experiment with AI coding tools became a fascinating journey through the current state of development workflows – complete with unexpected detours and surprising discoveries.

Flashing an LSI HBA to IT Mode in 2025: the Real-World, Hands-On Guide I Wish I’d Had

TL;DR: If your LSI/Avago/Broadcom SAS2308 (e.g., 9207-8i/9208-8i/9211-8i) card refuses to see drives or shows “0 B” ghosts, you probably need IT mode P20. The gotcha: the classic sas2flash.efi only works from a UEFI Shell v1, not v2—boot a TianoCore UEFI Shell v1 (link below) as \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI and the flasher will finally run. Also, don’t trust passive VGA→HDMI “converters” during setup—use real VGA or an active adapter so you can see the shell.

From quarterly chaos to seamless automation: How I solved my invoice management nightmare in one weekend The Problem That Was Costing Me Money Every three months, the same dreaded routine would begin. VAT filing time meant hours of tedious work that I'd inevitably procrastinate on: - Hunting through my inbox for invoice attachments - Downloading PDFs one by one -...

Last Thursday, my WordPress blog went down again. Nothing unusual—it always comes back by itself—but there I was, staring at another reminder of the aging VPS, the security concerns, and the maintenance overhead I'd been avoiding for years. After 22 years of blogging (starting on BlogSpace back in 2003 before migrating to WordPress), I'd been wanting to switch to a...

If you have macOS High Sierra and a Canon SELPHY CP810 or CP900, you had noticed that Canon didn't update his drivers in a while and that you cannot install them on your new OS. Canon didn't publish any official drivers for these printers on the latest macOS. Well, today, you can! Thanks to a little tweak in the drivers...