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  • How to Write Integration Tests for a Telegram Bot

    This is my 6th article on Telegram, the IM platform of my preference. In this article I’m going to introduce about how I wrote the integration tests for my EFB Telegram Master channel — a Telegram interface for EFB, using a userbot-like strategy. To get started, you need to have a bot ready to be…

  • Telegram Chat Backgrounds/Patterns Extracted

    Here is a collection of all extracted chat background/patterns came with Telegram in their original resolution, extracted from Telegram for Android 5.14.0. In Telegram, they are also sometimes called Wallpapers. This consists of 39 photographs that are there since no long after first Telegram release, 7 patterns in PNG added sometime after that, and 33…

  • Awesome Command Line Tools

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  • An alternative way to prevent spammers entering Telegram Groups

    Telegram is a growing platform of instant messaging which has gained great popularity in the past few years. With its openness and superior user-friendliness, it has attracted a lot of users, along with spammers.

  • Note: U.S. Equivalency of Australian 3-year Bachelor degree for H-1B visa

    While I was trying to look for if I am eligible for H-1B visa petition. I wasn’t able to find much information online on this matter, as most Australians would use E-3 visa to work in the U.S. instead of H-1B. Since I have found it out finally, I thought it’d be good to share…

  • Message delivery issues in EFB Telegram Master channel (comparing to generic IM services)

    Different from how usually an IM would work, EFB Telegram Master channel (ETM) strongly rely on Telegram Bot platform. This had made ETM more difficult to deal with messages failed to deliver. This article is first published on ETM Wiki on 20 April, 2019.

  • Fula spawnaw, lu rì’ìrtut a wìntxu nìleyn ronsrel mek letì’awpo nik.

    Fula spawnaw, lu rì’ìrtut a wìntxu nìleyn ronsrel mek letì’awpo nik. 信じたものは、都合のいい妄想を繰り返し映し出す鏡。— cosMo@暴走P Fula spawnaw, lu rì’ìrtut a wìntxu nìleyn ronsrel mek letì’awpo nik. 信じたものは、都合のいい妄想を繰り返し映し出す鏡。— Sä’ip Hatsne Mìkuä / cosMo@暴走P

  • Custom sort order in music libraries: macOS and Android

    Custom sort order in music libraries is a rather rare need. Most major languages use phonograms in their scripts, where the natural sort order is more or less identical to what is seen in Unicode (probably after some normalizations). On the other hand, languages using logograms (logosyllabic scripts, mainly Chinese characters in our context) does…

  • Write to Repeater Fields of Ultimate Fields with WordPress REST API

    Ultimate Fields is a WordPress plugin that add custom fields to existing post types, both built-in and custom. It’s the only free plugin I found that can add a repeating field (field with arbitrary number of items. However, this plugin has not been updated for almost a year, and there’s a bug where repeater fields…