Alyx Wijers

Amusingly, as I write this, I’ve just realized we’re coming up on the 20th anniversary of H2O: Just Add Water, which first aired on July 7th, 2006.

For those who don’t know, a lot of my hobbies revolve around networking equipment and related infrastructure.

This one’s going to be a bit of a tangent from the normal (and infrequent) posting, and probably more scattered, but it’s a thing I worked on recently and I figured I may as well post about it.

published early on 2024/12/30 because I’ve been at 38c3 and am too busy travelling and not having reliable connectivity to post it on time A dramatic cover photo of a down power line on a road that I took during the storm.

Why, and How?

Late at night on December 1st, I got a ping on my company Slack account.

What is SDF ICF?

Last May I wrote a post in which I did some basic testing on the CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe and speculated on potential use cases for it.

(if you’re a curator at the Computer History Museum and want to adopt zelazny.freenode.net, email me at hello@alyx.sh) In October 2018 I was at a surplus sale at Oregon State University, a bi-weekly event I often attended when I lived in the area.

(if you’re just looking for the map, it’s here) For the last few years, I’ve ran https://s.en0.io, collecting metadata about blocked firewall traffic from all of my physical servers and VMs around the world.

an addendum has been posted, read it here 2023/12/02 - Hello, Hacker News!

GeoCities-style 88x31 “Powered by Estrogen” buttons A big stereotype of late 1990s and early 2000s internet is the little “88x31” GIF buttons.

Twitch Plays TTY A couple years ago I watched a video by Joel Creates where he shows off his work on the set for the short film Infinitus[1], and in it he shows off that in the set they used an old UltraTec Minicom II TTY as the control panel for the airl…

For the past few years I’ve been printing my Christmas cards on old dot-matrix printers using “Card Shop Plus!”