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Ward Mundy
Personal blog · nerdvittles.comprogramminghardware
Ward Mundy writes Nerd Vittles, a personal blog at nerdvittles.com about programming and hardware. Since 2009, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ward Mundy's nerdvittles posts as how-to references for Asterisk PBX and VoIP setups, Raspberry Pi projects, and comparisons of SIP and VoIP providers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Here's a good starting point: http://nerdvittles.com/?p=75 Of course, with Asterisk, you can get downright crazy if you wish.
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on “Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever”Submitted If you won't eat your own dogfood, at least taste it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOK, then here are some links around this idea: https://robocall.devpost.com/forum_topics/1748-small-asteris... https://www.wrbishop.com/telecom/end-robocaller-solicitation... https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=172926 http://nerdvittles.com/?p=15412To Good luck !
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on “Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate”Submitted The Definitive VoIP Quickstart Guide: Incredible PBX for the Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThese seem to still be available here: http://nerdvittles.com/?p=6762
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on “Robocalls have triumphed over the Do Not Call list”Submitted Surfing the Google Wave: List of Bots and Gadgets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere is the real link to the article: http://nerdvittles.com/?p=798
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on “Forget Siri – make Wolfram Alpha your personal assistant”Submitted Integrating Amazon Alexa with Open-Source Asterisk VoIP PBX (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWard Mundy's nerdvittles blog had a recent overview of the SIP/VoIP market. [0] Looks like he currently recommends Vitelity, VoIP.ms, or CallCentric. Ward's PBX in a Flash projects (business class features on a raspberry pi or in the cloud) are also fun if you really want to go down a rabbit hole. [0] http://nerdvittles.com/?p=26128
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on “Does anyone know of an alternative to Google Voice?”Submitted 2010 Bargain of the Year: Nortel’s $42 Color Videophone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI believe they're still related but the guys at Nerd Vittles [0] are still doing a PBX in a Box style deployment. Looks like it's called Incredible PBX [1] now. But the last time I ran it it took a lot of considerations around running SIP securely and brought a few of the pieces together. Probably worth a look if you're interested in self-hosting at home or for SMB. [0] https://nerdvittles.com/ [1] https://wiki.incr…
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on “Building a Personal VoIP System”