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CMChris McGimpsey-Jones 🏴‍☠️👻 (@cipheranarchist)chrisjonesunixmen.hashnode.devMar 18 · 9 min read

Building VPN Server Galaxy: Scraping and Parsing 9,000+ OpenVPN Files into a Searchable Web UI

I 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 thre

CMChris McGimpsey-Jones 🏴‍☠️👻 (@cipheranarchist)chrisjonesunixmen.hashnode.devFeb 11 · 4 min read

Making a Dynamic System Application Menu for Blackbox-hwm — The Right Way

For 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...

CMChris McGimpsey-Jones 🏴‍☠️👻 (@cipheranarchist)chrisjonesunixmen.hashnode.devJan 12 · 5 min read

H-Linux Preview Updates: Blackbox-hwm, XLibre, Reverse Cache Sweep Execution, and More

In 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...

CMChris McGimpsey-Jones 🏴‍☠️👻 (@cipheranarchist)chrisjonesunixmen.hashnode.devJan 3 · 6 min read

H-Linux Preview

H-Linux isn't the first custom Linux distribution I have embarked on developing. Previously, I had launched Nest Linux and its upstream sister build NEXT Linux. Both ultimately lost momentum because I got lazy and embarked on a project not out of lov...

CMChris McGimpsey-Jones 🏴‍☠️👻 (@cipheranarchist)chrisjonesunixmen.hashnode.devDec 13, 2025 · 6 min read

When Your Package Manager Breaks: Why Linux Needs True Redundancy

In all the years I’ve been working with Linux (and breaking it), I think I’ve only truly broken the fundamentals of a package manager once—maybe twice, at most. Yesterday, I did it again. A long time ago I managed to break APT beyond any reasonable s...

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Building VPN Server Galaxy: Scraping and Parsing 9,000+ OpenVPN Files into a Searchable Web UI

Making a Dynamic System Application Menu for Blackbox-hwm — The Right Way

H-Linux Preview Updates: Blackbox-hwm, XLibre, Reverse Cache Sweep Execution, and More

H-Linux Preview

When Your Package Manager Breaks: Why Linux Needs True Redundancy

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Chris McGimpsey-Jones 🏴‍☠️👻 (@cipheranarchist)'s blogs

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Building VPN Server Galaxy: Scraping and Parsing 9,000+ OpenVPN Files into a Searchable Web UI

Making a Dynamic System Application Menu for Blackbox-hwm — The Right Way

H-Linux Preview Updates: Blackbox-hwm, XLibre, Reverse Cache Sweep Execution, and More

H-Linux Preview

When Your Package Manager Breaks: Why Linux Needs True Redundancy