How IrregularChat moderators use native text-replacement shortcuts on macOS, iOS, and Android to streamline onboarding, safety number verification, and welcome messages with consistent, community-approved prompts.
This is a series of lessons learned while building the IrregularChat community — onboarding, security, resilience, and moderation. Each part stands alone; together they capture how a trust-first commu
Brought the six-hop chain up. WireGuard handshakes were green on every container; pcaps proved every container was still talking to the real WAN through the Docker bridge, never the tunnels. Three config bugs, all in the routing layer. Diagnosis from pcaps and a one-shot patch.
Build-log series on a multi-hop WireGuard pinball machine — six Docker containers on one box, each NAT'd to a real country-AS prefix, designed to confuse local-segment observers doing IP-or-AS attribution.
I'm building a little computer spinner that sits next to my router and makes traffic look like it's pinballing through Russia, Canada, Taiwan, and Australia before hitting the internet. It's not a Mullvad replacement. Here's what it actually is, what the research turned up, and the five footguns I've hit or am about to.
Research notes on the VLESS / Xray-core project — who maintains it, what the fork history actually was, and what the community knows vs. what it speculates. Companion to the deployment guide on the wiki.
Who actually maintains the Xray-core project? A look at the overlap between V2Ray's Victoria Raymond, Xray's RPRX, and the still-active mmmray — coding-style signals, timezone clusters, project-graph overlap, and where the evidence runs out.
Why was V2Ray forked into Xray-core in 2021? The license argument, the attribution fight, the AGPL question, and what's left of the original team five years later.
*Part 6 of the [Building Communities](/post/building-communities) series — lessons learned running IrregularChat.* ## Can desire paths guide community growth? Community structure should follow...
What if we could give downtown Fayetteville a useful heads-up before the train crossings get blocked? Not a perfect system. Not a city-funded ITS platform. Not a proprietary railroad feed. Just a...
Capture the Flag (CTF) are competitive cybersecurity challenges where participants solve puzzles or exploit vulnerabilities to retrieve hidden “flags” and earn points. At their core they are just...
A call to irregulars. Look into create a logo for the community with the commonly used phrase. Together Irregular Strong This would not replace the standard logo; instead, it could be used in various...