Finally got an old Linksys router I bought off eBay flashed to OpenWrt & installed in the bedroom both for ethernet on the desktop, plus a WiFi access point for the downstairs / yard. I still need to work some kinks out of the network configuration, but my initial Fast.com speedtest showed incredibly promising results of >1Gbps (peaking at 1.8Gbps).

Granted, that's also cus it was a Saturday morning, so everyone was either sleeping or away from home & the neighborhood network wouldn't be taking much of a hit other than my own domain. Still, really nice to have a Gigabit network down and looking at upgrading to 10G or more down the line. CAT8.2 could be fun, but I'll need new network hardware for that.

Back when I was first getting into Python, I write up a battleship game. It's extremely simple, a single file script even, but does permit 2 players sharing the same screen & keyboard. Mitigating cheating is entirely on the user. I don't event know if it still works, but maybe I'll try it again at some point. It's probably hella outdated considering the age & I always wanted to add networking, so perhaps I'll re-write.

Finally initiated the transfer on the wiseeyesent.com domain registration, moving from AWS over to CloudFlare. The pricing looks good, so hopefully this goes smoothly enough. This is only the second time I believe I've transferred a personal domain, originally from HostGator (ooooold staff account) over to Amazon Registrar & now to CloudFlare.

P.S. 2025-12-11 transfer finally completed...

Domain Name: WISEEYESENT.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1710783110_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.cloudflare.com
Registrar URL: https://www.cloudflare.com
Updated Date: 2025-12-09T04:58:30Z
Creation Date: 2012-04-02T18:20:23Z

Finally beat Enter the Gungeon for the first time. 157.6 hours of gameplay. Still need to get the bullet that kills the past, fight the rat, travel to bullet hell, and kill the past of the other starter characters, plus unlock the new characters and kill their pasts too. There's so much to do in this game... It's a lot of fun though, but I really wish I had someone to play with me. Partner is not into these types of shooters.

So First Nation's Day is here. Went to a friend's house for dinner (pork belly) and an online of game of Honey Heist with friends. If you haven't played before, it's a lot of fun and perfect for one shots. They pulled the caper off with only like 6 deaths they were directly responsible for and without losing any player characters (other than the one who couldn't make it). I've uploaded the game notes in case anyone wanted to take a gander:

https://news.wiseeyesent.com/20251127_HoneyHeist.txt

Winston gets the MVP for blocking a burst of automatic fire from a Hunniburton guard to save Bear Grilles, plus stabbing like 4 people, including Teddy Ruxpin.

I started doing some work on the network. Idle hands & all that. Now the network doesn't work. Also, I wound up on sco.wikipedia.org somehow. That was interesting... I might use this more often

PayPal's cart functionality is broken & GMail is noticeably lagging. (GMail also has an insane number of background activity for a single tab. I guess that's why people use clients.) Plus roads were hella congested (& this place is already famous for the World's Worst Driversᵀᴹ) so I guess it's officially the holidays.

I got my router's webUI working through https with a valid domain qualified certificate though, which is pretty cool. Still working on ansibling the network, but there's over a decade of technical involved in that, so it'll be a progressive thing.

I'm working on setting up a new system to demo projects, but dunno how long that'll take. Also planning a session of Honey Heist with friends. Life is certainly getting busy enough these days.

Forgot to mention this, but while I was working on some NTP stuff for my network, I plugged pool.ntp.org into the address bar & got redirected to this: https://cdn.maxhost.io/Ribs.mp4

Wow. What the hell? Sometimes the internet is a beautiful place, but I still have found no explanation for this thing or why it exists.

til; IEC 61850 exists. Of course there's an international standard for substation / grid device communication & reporting. I just hadn't heard of it before. Was reading over their TISSUE (Technical Issue) database user guide & actually found it to be somewhat interesting, particularly the state machine description.

Y'all read Ted the Caver yet? Read it a long time ago, back when AngelFire websites were normal & I had a GeoCities of my own. Good stuff. Probably birthed the "creepy-pasta" movement for the internet.