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
September 2026
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- setting
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All posts (206)
What Happens After I’m Gone? The Future of the Online Me 2025-09-12 Well, that’s a morbid headline… Let me start off by saying that I am doing well and in good health! This post is focused more on the concept of “future-proofing” my open source projects and stupid little mini-sites once I am no longer around to keep...
My OpenBSD Home Network Setup 2025-08-25 I recently moved to an area with more internet provider options, all of which were not satellite-based. This change allowed me leave my current provider (Starlink) and also freed my network from being locked behind CGNAT. The jump from ~150Mbps to 1Gbps has been fantastic,...
Setup Mullvad VPN on OpenBSD via WireGuard 2025-07-16 I’m a big fan of Mullvad’s approach on true privacy and very simple pricing. Most other VPNs market themselves for torrenting anonymously or using streaming services outside of your real location. These features are fine, but when a company is offering you 85%...
Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD 2025-07-11 I’m hardly a “networking” or system admin expert. Even still, I’ve always been interested in the concept of building out my own home router with OpenBSD. It seemed so “hacky” and cool! The problem is that most of the tutorials I stumble across on the internet seem so...
Starlink, OpenWrt, and Eeros… Oh My! 2025-06-29 In my previous post, Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink, I broke down how to implement - you guessed it - Starlink running through a PiHole connected to my mesh eero wifi nodes. That setup still works and runs well, but I wanted to take a stab at setting up my...
Creating a Basic Status Page on NearlyFreeSpeech 2025-05-12 Since I talked about hosting multiple websites through NearlyFreeSpeech in the past, I thought it would be nice to walkthrough setting up a barebones “status” page that runs automatically on your existing NFS server. This post isn’t going to be mind...
Setup an OpenBSD VM on macOS Using UTM 2025-03-12 The UTM app for macOS is an excellent piece of software for those wanting a streamlined GUI when working with virtual machines. Their existing Gallery of pre-built images is great, but it currently lacks any of the BSDs. Lucky for us, creating your own OpenBSD VM is...
Mac Apps That Bring Me Joy 2025-03-04 I wrote a post roughly 3 years ago about happily paying for MacOS apps. I’ve found a good amount has changed in my MacOS “usage” during that post and now1. So I thought I would revisit the general concept, only this time look at all applications I enjoy using (paid or...
Hosting Multiple Websites Under One NearlyFreeSpeech Site 2025-02-14 It’s no secret that I’m a happy customer of NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (NFS). I’ve previously written about installing WordPress on their platform, and also published wikis on both setting up ikiwiki and cgit. Recently, I decided to move all personal and...
Red Hat Plans to Add AI to Fedora and GNOME 2025-02-04 In Christian F.K. Schaller’s post Looking ahead at 2025 and Fedora Workstation and jobs on offer! he discusses how the Red Hat team is looking into using IBM’s Granite AI models to compliment the development of Fedora Linux and GNOME. One big item on our list...
Git Your Freedom Back: A Beginner’s Guide to SourceHut 2025-01-24 This article (or guide) is targeted towards users and contributors who are currently hosting their git repositories through GitHub. The goal of this post is to convince developers to move away from GitHub altogether. I will breakdown GitHub’s most...
Deliver the Bare Minimum 2024-12-22 I’m a minimalist at heart, so keeping things as simple as possible tends to be my thing. I love tinkering with an idea or product feature while trying to reduce my reliance on dependencies or purposely constraining personally set limits (maybe this is bandwidth, resource usage,...
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