What if you can read long tweets as audio. I lost some sleep at 3am and decided to build a simple tool. Takes the tweet url, generate audio of the tweet. I am working on threads so that it can compile threads and read them. It took me ~4hrs to come up with the basic version.

Media sending, realtime message reception now implemented. I will shift to data analysis and building value for business to evaluate campaign success.

The mistrust is real and sometimes misunderstanding makes projects quite complicated. If someone can charge like 10% of the value of the project. Hold the money, ones the project is delivered according to specs the dev is paid.

I have realized that in Kenya there is an opportunity for dev-client arbitration. Clients are suffering and devs are also short-charged. Someone with tech knowledge to ensure that the project is delivered in time and the client pays. I have been an arbitrator in 2 major projects.

This Saturday @CodeClub we shall cover introduction to @arduino and atleast build one project on @arduino. If you would like to learn more about Arduino and robotics in general, you can register through this link to attend, only 25 slots are available https://t.co/J6sJjy4VmY Note

Started working on a new tour company website. This is the 3rd tour company website this year. It seems many companies are getting into tour or looking for digitization.

The next step is to fully implement sending media. Whatsapp is rejecting sending messages with media, probably my payload is not right.

Todays midnight oil was to add support for media. Whatsapp does not provide a way to generate presigned link for media. So I had to download them, store in a bucket, generate a presigned link when the user views the conversation. Now it fully works.

After struggling with the provided code. Decided to rewrite the firmware. I have to reverse engineer most of the connections. More work but the goal is to get it working. Atleat blink for led and relay works, 4G also works, UART also works. 70% of the works is done.

Nothing beats sugarless coffee in the morning.

Todays midnight oil added support for reactions, double ticks and blue ticks.

10 years of hard work in 1 minute

My next laptop must be @FrameworkPuter . I love hacking hardware and I cant get a good Thinkpad made in the recent years that maintains the same build as the old ones did. They now have inbuilt ram, pathetic. Though it might be hard to get one in Kenya, will have to import.

Got some time to solve a small undisclosed api 'bug' where if you have more than two numbers under one business, the last to be added does not receive messages till you make a post request to Whatsapp subscribe api. This was not explained anywhere in the docs quite frustrating.

As always it doesn't work on the first try. We try again tomorrow. Will have to read the board datasheet and try to make the code do what it's actually supposed to do.

I was called to help debug code for this device. A custom cooker management board. The code and the board was developed by Chinese company. It uses CH32v307VCT6 board. The code was has comments in Chinese, which makes them useless. But so far the code works and uploaded.

Burnt midnight oil to work on contact import feature. You can export contact from google contacts, import them here and continue with conversations under one roof. Checks for contacts with missing details or invalid numbers, you can then correct before adding them.

The next feature is to have organizations have multiple attendants. They can all manage conversations in a single platform. If you are a company that have multiple phone numbers, you can have all agents manage these conversations and send marketing materials in a single place.

Whatsapp webhooks fully implemented. Now you can manage all your Whatsapp business phone numbers from one interface. Handles sending message, receiving, receipt status and many more.

Whatsapp marketing integration now has proper media marketing integrated. This is the main advantage of whatsapp marketing. You can send videos, photos and documents. Another key advantage is feedback. The feedback you get from user interaction is immense. Thats my next focus.

Whatsapp api is quite something. I want to send a message with a photo attached. I have to create a template with media header. To create that I need 3 different ids, application id, business id and phone number id. This is lots of confusion.