Bradley Taunt
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.
Latest Posts
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...