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Tom Strickx
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I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a prideful person. But I get my pride from odd places
Such as getting the steno team at #RIPE91 to type "oopsy whoopsy fucky wucky" without blinking.

And yes IPTables was an oopsy whoopsy fucking mistake.
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Yeaaaah baby! #RIPE91 time!
Excited to catch up with the @ripencc.bsky.social community this week.
October 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
With beer!
July 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
TRAAAAAAIIIIN!
July 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This architecture needs more NAT gateway, right @quinnypig.com ?
June 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Hell yeah! @netldn.bsky.social is SO back
June 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Today in funny router bugs:
Junos will resolve ASCII characters to their decimal value in an as-path regex:
'show route aspath-regex .*;'
will show you all prefixes/paths originated from AS59, as ; is 59 in the ASCII table.
May 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I have made it to the Holy Land. My pilgrimage is complete.
April 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This feels like a bad hobby to get sucked into...
March 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is insanely cool work. So excited for you.
It's a tiny club of network engineers that get to say their network is running in SPACE. FRIGGIN SPACE!
January 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Bit preoccupied with anything not thinking sand this week.
January 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Profitec Pro 500 and the Niche Zero
December 21, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Odd, what's this then?
December 3, 2024 at 10:53 AM
I have questions.
November 23, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Rise and shine Mr Freeman, rise and shine!
November 17, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Tomorrow (2024-11-14) I'm making a (hopefully somewhat entertaining/interesting) fool of myself at #NetLdn
7PM sharp @ The Wheatsheaf
netldn.uk/2024/11/08/n...
November 13, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Challenge accepted!
October 31, 2024 at 8:15 AM
A wild Barry appears at #RIPE89 to talk about IXP manager v7.
#INEX being awesome yet again.
October 31, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Mirjam Kühne kicking off #RIPE89 in Prague, excited to see old and new faces.
October 28, 2024 at 1:02 PM