C:\ZYAGA\WORK\CRACKED-PRODUCTIONS> TYPE README.TXT
Cracked Productions
A monthly hacking, modding and tech-comedy video show I made with a friend as a teenager. Two seasons, 22 episodes, now recovered and back online.
Cracked Productions ran from April 2006 to February 2008: twenty episodes plus two specials, with a blog, a shoutbox and a forum around it. I did the hacking tips and my friend Miguel was the comedy foil.
In 2026 I brought it back. Every episode was recovered from old backups, a torrent and the original S3 bucket, then re-encoded and served from Cloudflare R2. The old blog posts, comments and 1,457 shoutbox messages were restored from archive captures, and the site replays the guestbook as a live log.
- TYPE
- Web show archive
- PLATFORM
- Web
- YEARS
- 2006 – 2008
- ROLE
- Co-creator and host in 2006–2008: the show, the hacking tips and the original site. In 2026, recovered every episode and rebuilt the site as an archive.
- STACK
- Static site generator (Node) / Cloudflare Pages / Cloudflare R2 video hosting / ffmpeg re-encodes
- 22episodes recovered and playable
- 40original news posts restored
- 1,457shoutbox messages replayed
- 3.7 GBof video re-encoded to R2
C:\ZYAGA> DIR /FEATURES 機能
[01]
Every episode, playable
All twenty episodes and both specials, recovered from old backups, a torrent and the original S3 bucket. Two only survived complete in S3. Each was re-encoded and is streamed from Cloudflare R2.
[02]
Each episode gets its own page
The video, its original date and running time, and a link back to the post that announced it in 2006–2008.
[03]
The guestbook, replayed live
The 1,457 shoutbox messages and the old post comments replay in order like a live log, starting from a random point each visit, with a shuffle toggle. Beside it, the news log shows what was posted on this day.
[04]
The old blog, word for word
Forty news posts recovered from archive captures, as written, typos included, each with the shoutbox chatter from around the same time.
C:\ZYAGA> TYPE SHOW.TXT 番組
The show, 2006 – 2008
Cracked Productions started on April 5, 2006: two teenagers, me (Zyaga) and my friend Miguel, filming a monthly show of hacking tips and tech comedy. I did the tips; Miguel was the comedy foil, learning right along with the viewers. The tagline was "Making the Elite more 31337."
Every episode got its own page with the runtime, the file size, the tools it used and a download link, and from September 2007 a Watch Now button to stream it. Around the show grew a blog, a shoutbox, a forum, a gallery, an IRC chat and live security checks like a clipboard test and a port scan.
It ran two seasons, twenty episodes and two specials, from Cain & Abel and Wireshark in episode one to soldering a RetroUSB SNES controller kit in episode nine, until the last episode in February 2008.
