Nothing much to say yet, just making sure the wheels on this site haven’t entirely fallen off.| Xkeeper's blog
I mentioned in the previous post about my DIY network monitoring that I’d put the code up eventually, and that time is (or was) now. It’s still not really cleaned up, but if you want to run it, you can do that now. It requires fping, which is a tool you should be able to … Continue reading "Ping chart code"| Xkeeper's blog
I’ve been posting images on Twitter and elsewhere lately that are largely green squares with red dots on them. While I intend to write a longer post on that later, for now, I’ll make a quick explanation of them. A sample image from January 4th is below; there is also a webpage with an updated … Continue reading "DIY Network Monitoring"| Xkeeper's blog
We’ve been having a lot of internet issues at the Romhaus, the subject of which will have to be a topic for another post. While we’ve been trying to get it fixed, one of the things that was recommended to us by Cox was purchasing a new modem to replace our old (but still otherwise … Continue reading "Cable modems are garbage"| Xkeeper's blog
Jul‘s a forum I run. If you’ve been around me for a while, you’ve probably heard of it. It’s a fork of an ancient forum, both in the sense of community (from Acmlm’s Board) and software (Acmlmboard). They were created by (surprise) Acmlm back in early 2001, 18 years ago. The community went through a lot … Continue reading "Jul, a forum"| Xkeeper's blog
One of the goofier projects I’ve started recently has been toying with an Adaptive Micro Systems LED sign, specifically the PPD220RED (for “personal proximity display”, and its color). I’ve wanted to own a goofy LED marquee sign for years, and after some searching I managed to snag one on eBay. Among other things, I’ve hooked … Continue reading "LED Sign stuff"| Xkeeper's blog
I dunno yet! I’m thinking that I’ll still keep those kinds of posts to my journal and just keep this blog for thoughts on my projects (and tangentially related stuff). I do want to work on my journal more, though! I think this year’s resolution is really just going to be “write more”.| Xkeeper's blog
There’s been something of an epidemic of malicious bots on the internet these days. You may have seen a post recently titled “Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face“, or “FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies“. Those are all happening to us, too. Surprise.| Xkeeper's blog
