Ixion, a purple dragon in a red visor

Ixion

@illixion

About

Infrastructure engineer for a living, technical writer and FOSS developer on the side, sometimes a photographer.

I'm always working on something new, follow me on social media of your choice to stay up-to-date!

Recent blog posts

Sponsors

Apps

Apps I make for Apple Vision Pro, iPhone, iPad and Mac. They aren't on the App Store yet. The iPhone and iPad builds install through AltStore or SideStore from apps.illixion.com.

Running

  • synth.zip

    An open, community-oriented Mastodon server running on Pleroma.

  • blog.illixion.com

    My technology blog. Mostly a notepad I come back to when I need something, shared in case it helps someone else.

  • ssh.illixion.com

    Self-hosted, end-to-end-signed SSH key sync for my machines.

Open source

  • Vibrancy Continued

    Acrylic, Mica and glass window effects for VS Code.

  • RoboFrame

    A digital photo frame with image search, display control and optional Home Assistant integration.

  • Annemone

    Control the RGB lighting of an Anne Pro 2 keyboard from Node.js.

  • Stream Deck Animated Screensaver

    Turn a video into a Stream Deck preset that plays as a screensaver.

  • root-my-webos-tv

    Proof of concept for CVE-2023-6319 on LG webOS TVs.

  • WebOverlay

    A configurable, web-based HUD overlay for macOS.

  • Macrobot

    A lightweight macro recorder and player for macOS.

  • web-yt-dlp

    A web front end for yt-dlp that works with iOS Shortcuts.

Archived

  • Kataprints

    An online clothing and accessory store based in Riga, Latvia, where purchases supported artists directly. I ran all of the technical side.

Art

Commissioned artwork of my character. Tap a picture to see it full size.

Alternate versions

PGP key

For mail to [email protected] and for checking things I've signed. GnuPG can fetch it straight from this domain:

gpg --locate-keys [email protected]
Fingerprint
7914 B6C6 CC1E 5662 E7CA A0C5 4C7C 6897 5127 BCF9
Algorithm
Ed25519, Cv25519 for encryption
Created
26 June 2026
Show the key block
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FLbGzB5WYufKoMVMfGiXUSe8+QUCas6OUQIbAwULCQgHAgYVCgkICwIEFgIDAQIe
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ACAWIQR5FLbGzB5WYufKoMVMfGiXUSe8+QUCaj4yXAIbIAAKCRBMfGiXUSe8+Xw/
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O4u0AKzCsT9GxYWNRxSDCAY3NP5f+gEA+fjTSmS2ad5R1gp/L/cP7D2cgemZ4t6/
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Every commit to this site's repository is signed, so you can check that the key hasn't been swapped in the history of pgp.txt.

SSH keys

My public SSH keys, and the signed sync that keeps them current on my machines, are at ssh.illixion.com.