Quick update on the vaccination project with monal. We have crossed 1000 new XMPP users using the service. The rate of growth is accelerating and the next thousand will likely be faster than the first. we have also sent out almost 250 thousand vaccine notifications. This number will likely not Continue Reading
XMPP: Ending this pandemic (Part 1)
I made my XMPP based vaccine notification bot available to the general public about a week ago. The service is available at vaccine.monal.im . In the last three days I have sent 129 thousand notifications. Over the past week hundreds of Americans of all ages and from all walks of Continue Reading
Get MA Vaccine Appointment Notifications on your devices
Update : use the dedicated covid portal for vaccine alerts https://vaccine.monal.im/ I’ve been testing a Massachusetts vaccine push system for the past few days and it seems to be working well. Six teachers I originally made this for have used it to get vaccine appointments with little to no effort. Continue Reading
Monal 5 Beta 2 out
Both Mac and iOS betas have been updated. Done We no longer crash on xmpp connection start while registering a new account Only allow LMC on encrypted messages if the new msg is also encrypted Fingerprint verification via QR-Code now working as expected. Shows a warning if you scan a Continue Reading
MA residents, let’s test an XMPP vaccine system
Enough people were interested in my last post that I have rewritten my scripts in Java as a general solution and moved it over to AWS. In theory I can write an adapter for any state’s data. I have Massachusetts data and will likely acquire New York next. I’m going Continue Reading
Using XMPP to get a vaccine
Even with the increased availability of covid vaccines, in the US, the problem many of us face is the the inability to get a vaccine appointment (or know where one is available). In my state, someone made a website that scrapes a lot of local data sources and provides a Continue Reading
Monal is on Mastodon
I had never heard of Mastodon, which is sort of a federated twitter like service, until recently. Since there are a lot of open source and XMPP enthusiastic users on the Fosstodon server I have added an account there and all posts from this blog will be published there like Continue Reading
Monal stats 2/2021
We don’t track the number of users Monal has. We do see thousands of downloads in the App Store statistics. Any user counting and crash tracking provided by Apple is strictly opt in only. So it always undercounts. However because every user registers a push device with the push server Continue Reading