Daniel Jones

A builder, end to end

I'm Daniel Jones, the founder of Tuxxin. I've been writing code since 2001, and since 2010 I've poured that into Tuxxin — designing Linux infrastructure, building the software that runs on top of it, and helping small and medium businesses operate technology that simply works, without the enterprise price tag.

I build most of what carries the Tuxxin name myself, from the servers up to the browser: the Tuxxin suite of tools and web apps, and the framework they all run on. I like owning the whole stack — it's the only way to make something fast, secure, and genuinely yours.

More recently my focus has turned to web-security research, built around two tools that go hand in hand. worldip.io maps the ownership, ASN, geolocation, and reverse-DNS of the entire IPv4 space — the "who and where" of any address. whack.sh puts that network insight to work: a multi-egress URL threat scanner that loads a link through datacenter, residential, and mobile networks at once and diffs the results to expose how malicious sites cloak their behaviour from automated scanners — the "what it's actually doing." Together they connect an address to its intent. This work includes responsible-disclosure investigations reported directly to the affected vendors.

Twenty-five years in, I still think the best way to understand something is to build it yourself and then try to break it. So far, so good.