If you want to read incoming SMS messages sent to your Twilio number in your email then do I have a neat solution for you today. We’re going to use Twilio Functions and SendGrid to forward SMS messages directly to your email address. Things you’ll need A Twilio account and a phone number that can receive SMS messages A SendGrid account Let’s get building The entire operation of forwarding… Read More
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation Ruby helper library. The approach The Ruby library offers new functionality and takes advantage of modern language features. We’ve rebuilt it from the ground up based on the developer feedback we received from you. This release concludes the effort of updating our existing libraries to make the helper libraries more consistent, enable faster… Read More
One of my favourite icebreakers is to play a game called Once Upon a Time, which is popular enough to have its own card game. When playing, friends get to write one line of a story at a time and each player can only see the one immediately before theirs. The results are always hilarious as stories go off in all kinds of directions. I wanted… Read More
Local notifications provide a core functionality in many apps, and in Swift they are easy to add to whatever you’re building. With iOS10’s UserNotifications you can even display GIFs in notifications. Let’s build a quick application to display a local UserNotification containing a SEGA-related GIF and a prompt for the user to continue receiving notifications. Setting up the project Get started by grabbing this example project off of Github…. Read More
Functional programming languages are gaining in popularity so let’s hop on that Haskell bandwagon. With Haskell, you can write clean, concise, and expressive code. Don’t believe me just yet? Now let’s dive into setting up your Haskell developer environment by configuring two package managers installing Haskell making a “Hello, World” program sending our first SMS with Twilio using Haskell (get a Twilio phone number here) Environments There is… Read More
Added security for sensitive call recordings. Use your own public key to encrypt recordings before they’re stored. Available in developer preview. Today, our default security for call recordings includes encryption at rest for recordings stored with Twilio. However, we’ve learned that some customers, typically those that need to comply with strict industry or regional regulations for data protection, require even stronger security mechanisms. A level of… Read More
The future of the internet is at stake. We hope you’ll take a moment to tell the FCC how important net neutrality is to you. Net neutrality empowers consumers to use the websites and applications that they want without service providers throttling traffic or blocking content. It ensures that innovation and competition — not merger deals — pick the winners and losers of the market. It protects activists, freedom… Read More
You walk into your favourite coffee shop and today they ask you if you’d like to register for a loyalty card. All they need is your name and phone number. On the way back you stop for groceries and the cashier asks if you’d like to enter a prize draw. All they need is your name and phone number. It’s finally time to put that lawn… Read More
Births are Spectacular but Sharing births is difficult On Jan 24th, 2017 my wife and I added a baby boy to our family. When he arrived, we felt overwhelming joy from bringing a new baby into the world, and were anxious to share this with our friends and family who were about three thousand miles away. Then came the challenge – how should we share this… Read More