Huge updates underway

The last time I wrote anything substantial on developer.tornevall.net was back in 2021-2022, right before life took over and I stopped putting energy into these projects.

That is really all there was to it. Things took too long, I lost interest in dragging half-finished ideas forward, and most of it ended up in the usual “maybe later” pile. Since a lot of it was still technically working, there was never enough pressure to do anything about it.

Then, a few weeks ago, something changed.

I had grown increasingly skeptical of AI, and I really hated Copilot at first. Then I gave it another chance, and suddenly things started moving.

In a very short time, I rebuilt major parts of ToolsAPI at tools.tornevall.net – work that would previously have taken me years.

So yes, huge updates are underway. Here’s a few things that happened in the last few weeks:

• DNS has been seriously upgraded — zone browsing, cache-aware lookups, search, dynamic record updates, token-based access and a much more usable DNS admin flow are finally taking shape.
• DNSBL / FraudBL is being pulled into the modern ToolsAPI world — current bitmask handling, cleaner documentation, better endpoint structure, and commerce-aware flows are now being worked into the stack properly.
• IRC Memory Lane is alive again — imports, archive handling, format detection, dry-runs and API/documentation work now make the old log history much more useful than before.
• The GUI side has had a real lift — several admin and public-facing interfaces are no longer just placeholders, but increasingly feel like actual products instead of half-finished utilities.
• WordPress plugin work is moving again — both DNSBL-related plugin work and the Resurs Bank toolbox track have seen cleanup, restructuring and long overdue modernization.
• SMS, AI and other integrations are no longer sleeping — the SMS gateway/API flow, OpenAI tooling and internal integration surfaces have all been pushed forward at a pace I honestly did not expect.
• RSS, statistics and service dashboards have been cleaned up and expanded — which means more visibility, more usable tools, and a much better overview of what is actually happening inside the platform.
• Documentation has started catching up with reality — not just endpoint references, but real usage docs, categorized pages and a cleaner docs experience overall.