Rotary-dial phone with VoIP

Since a short time I am the proud owner of an old dial phone from the 70s. It is a “PTT 50 Tf3-39.205” from the company Zellweger Uster from 1972, which can only do the old pulse dialing. With pulse dialing, corresponding pulses are sent for each dialed number: 1 at 1, 9 at dialed 9 etc. By timing the pulses correctly, the telephone number to be dialed is transmitted in the process.

Atmo - Home-made Weatherstation

The current season is known for the fact that it is a little bit colder outside and it gets colder inside the house or apartment. Every year it is a challenge to find the right setting for the heating so that it is not too warm or too cold. It is even more difficult if there is no thermometer available 🙈. Instead of buying a thermometer - or a weather station like Netatmo as a Christmas present 😛, I thought I would build a small weather station myself.

Pi-hole with dns-over-https

In the previous blog entry [Pi-hole with DNS-over-TLS] I set up stubby for dns-over-tls on the pi-hole. I want to do the same now for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), but neither Stubby nor Unbound support the young protocol which answers DNS queries via HTTPS. Some browsers have now integrated DoH, but I would like to protect all DNS queries from my home network. Therefore I use the client of cloudflare written in Go: cloudflared.

Microservices with Django: Events with Publish/Subscribe

Django (/ˈdʒÃĻÅ‹ÉĄoƊ/ jang-goh) is a free, open source web application framework written in Python. Here you can find a tutorial from Django, if you don’t know it yet and want to try it out: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/intro/tutorial01/. The next article is aimed at experienced Django developers. Django and Microservices I have been using Django together with the task engine Celery for some time for asynchronous and distributed processing over several systems. Recently I am working on the topic “Microservices” and how they can be realized together with Django.