Bradley Taunt
Bradley Taunt
The man behind the site… I’m Brad, a designer/developer hybrid. I help software companies improve their user experience and ship more performant products. I’m passionate about open source software, usability, performance, privacy, and minimal design. This small piece of the internet stores a growing collection of my personal brain dumps. I also actively maintain several open source projects. Core tools are HTML, CSS, Ruby, JavaScript & PHP. Currently improving my skills with Rails & MongoDB. I also enjoy tinkering with basic shell scripts and Unix systems.
August 2026
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All posts (206)
The Forge Wars 2026-09-20 No fate but what we make Lately I’ve been experiencing forge fatigue. Most of my projects are hosted and mirrored across Codeberg, Sourcehut, and GitHub. My main issue has been trying to determine the best “home base” or deciding which one to be the real git forge. It’s annoying. The...
OpenBSD VPS for $5 a Year 2026-09-08 I believe I have found the cheapest VPS provider on the internet. It costs just ~$5 per year! You read that right. Not $5 per month or even quarterly. That is the total annual cost. Best of all, OpenBSD is natively supported as one of the default image selections. (They also...
So Long Relayd, and Thanks for All the Fish 2026-08-17 Running relayd alongside httpd on your OpenBSD web servers is no longer necessary for injecting HTTP security headers. Thanks to the incredible work by rsadowski@ we now have the ability to set our security headers directly inside httpd. Pretty awesome, right?...
Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD 2026-07-18 This website is being served to you from my HP T630 thin client, running OpenBSD and httpd. Pretty cool, right? And best of all you can do the same! I’m going to walkthrough how to host your own websites locally on OpenBSD. This guide is going to be kept...
Installing SerenityOS on My Old ThinkPad T60 2026-06-28 I recently had the urge to play around with SerenityOS on real hardware. Since the project is slightly catered towards older machines, I figured my ThinkPad T60 was a perfect candidate for running on bare metal. The following is a loose guide for those...
Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM 2026-05-08 My micro site, zero.btxx.org, is being served to the public internet from a Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 running Alpine Linux. The best part? It’s diskless and running entirely from memory! My Raspberry Pi Zero silently running in my cold-storage...
Snail Mail Sign-Ups 2026-03-13 I recently came across Adrian’s post on HackerNews titled The dead Internet is not a theory anymore. It was a good read with similarly good discussions in the associated HN comments (rare, I know!). An interesting comment that stuck out to me was: I think next step will be an isolated...
DIY Home Network with OpenBSD, OpenWrt, and Pi-hole 2026-03-03 This post includes a full breakdown of my entire home network stack. My goal is to make this as accessible as possible for newcomers to jump right in and build out their own home networks. Important! I highly recommend reading through the entire tutorial...
Liberating the ASUS CX1100CN Chromebook with OpenBSD 2026-01-16 I’ve always enjoyed the idea of having a portable, lightweight, 11 inch laptop for my personal use for around the house and small trips. A device that I wouldn’t have to be concerned about just throwing in a backpack and forgetting about. Something...
Hyperlinks Should Have Context 2025-12-18 While poorly implemented links can cause minor annoyances for users, improper interactive links can often lead to a loss of users. That’s why, if you have interactive links on a website or application, it helps to include detailed context. This avoids incorrect actions being...
Thoughts on Technological Purity 2025-12-12 “Everything should be running on OpenBSD. My desktop, router, web server, and even minor local services should all be built on top of the great Pufferfish BSD.” I told myself this “mantra” not too long ago, after diving head-first into the wonderful world of BSDs. The...
Installing GNOME on OpenBSD 7.8 2025-11-07 This post is just a quick guide to get your OpenBSD desktop or laptop up-and-running with the GNOME desktop environment quickly. You can take things further once everything is setup, but I’ll be keeping things basic for now. Installing GNOME on OpenBSD 7.8 GNOME Packages...
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