Why I Decided to Take Stewardship of "TrueCrypt"For many privacy-conscious people, the name "TrueCrypt" is more than software. It carries weight. And how it folded is still one of the internet's great unsolved mysteries. Some background, briefly. IOct 22 · 6 min readchrisjonesunixmen.hashnode.dev
H-Linux: Building an Operating System, Not Installing OneThere is a temptation within the Linux community to compare one distribution against another. In truth, many distributions share the same foundations, with their differences often coming down to packaAug 3 · 5 min readchrisjonesunixmen.hashnode.dev
Building VPN Server Galaxy: Scraping and Parsing 9,000+ OpenVPN Files into a Searchable Web UII really didn’t set out to build a VPN server observatory. All I actually wanted was a clean, searchable reference for VPN exit nodes across three providers — AirVPN, ExpressVPN, and NordVPN. All threMar 18 · 9 min readchrisjonesunixmen.hashnode.dev
Making a Dynamic System Application Menu for Blackbox-hwm — The Right WayFor years, people have said that Openbox menus can't really be dynamic. They're half right. Openbox was never designed for runtime mutation of its menu tree. There's no native live API, no hot-reloadable menu graph, no reactive hooks. Most attempts t...Feb 11 · 4 min readchrisjonesunixmen.hashnode.dev
H-Linux Preview Updates: Blackbox-hwm, XLibre, Reverse Cache Sweep Execution, and MoreIn my first blog post introducing H-Linux to the wider community, I accidentally omitted something important. As it turns out, that omission was fortuitous—I didn't realize I'd embark on an intense 72-hour development sprint that would give me plenty...Jan 12 · 5 min readchrisjonesunixmen.hashnode.dev
