Brad Taunt

Things are probably still propagating over to the new server, but I am officially hosting my blog locally via #OpenBSD on my HP T630

Wrote about setting up the process here:

"Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD"

https://btxx.org/posts/self-hosted-openbsd/

(I also have some basic details on my infrastructure page https://btxx.org/infra/)

Trying to organize all my #OpenBSD guides/tutorials into a single place (mostly for my future self)

https://openbased.xyz/

(Also being served by my local HP T630 running OpenBSD as a bonus 😜)

Still a WIP, but I’m trying to consolidate all my basic OpenBSD guides into one place:

https://openbased.xyz/

Right now it just covers basic desktop and rehashing my router setup. Plan to add more use cases as I tinker with things myself 😛

#openbsd #web #router

I've ported over a few small side project websites to my local Raspberry Pi Zero (named Hermes)

https://hermes.btxx.org

My main blog *might* be placed on my HP Thin Client running OpenBSD instead...we shall see!

All of my main website subdomain projects have been moved over to my #RaspberryPi Zero (named Hermes). If things continue to work well, I plan to port my main blog over as well!

Ref: https://hermes.btxx.org

Then I will begin porting over my clubs/custom domain projects to my *other* Raspberry Pi 3B... (named Apollo, obviously 😛 )

As much as I enjoy Firefox, I don't think Mozilla will be keeping Thundermail around for very long. The fact that their beta testers are required to pay $6/month is already pretty rough. Also seems to be hosted on AWS which makes calling it "privacy-first" a little bit of a stretch...

I think after the initial launch, this will be another product Mozilla kills off. (As sad as that might be)

https://tb.pro/en-US/

Finally got around to finishing this post:

"Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM"

https://btxx.org/posts/memory/

#alpinelinux #raspberrypi #nginx #web #ram

With so many posts popping up about “leaving GitHub” or discussing how poor the experience overall is with that platform, I will share my old post again on moving over to SourceHut :)

“Git Your Freedom Back: A Beginner’s Guide to SourceHut”

https://btxx.org/posts/beginners-guide-sourcehut/

#sourcehut #git #github

We were without power for ~18 hours yesterday, but I’m still determined to eventually switch hosting my personal blog over to my local Raspberry Pi Zero

https://hermes.btxx.org/

#alpinelinux #raspberrypi #selfHosting

Testing out a fun experiment of running a variation of my existing website locally.

What's cool about it?

- Served off a Raspberry Pi Zero 1.3
- Running entirely in RAM (thanks Alpine!)
- Web server -> darkhttpd
- Has a tiny ~$4/year VPS in front of it handling the TLS termination

I'm sure things will explode if too many visitors slammed the poor little Pi, but I think regular traffic would be completely fine ;)

If interested: https://zero.btxx.org

PS. sorry if it falls over!

#raspberrypi #alpinelinux

Just as I’ve been slowly migrating my web projects to locally self hosted, my ISP goes down for ~2 hours 🙄

I guess nothing I host is critical or required to have 99.99% uptime. But still!

It's currently just a simplified version of my existing blog, but I'm hosting this website on my Raspberry Pi Zero for testing purposes:

https://fsck.lol

We will see how things go over time, then possible port over the "real" thing 😛

#raspberrypi #nginx #alpinelinux #selfHosting

It's been roughly a week or so since testing out #Ubuntu on my #thinkpad T480s. I'm genuinely impressed how painless everything has been (connecting displays, driver support, wifi etc).

I know Ubuntu is picked on quite a bit, but I think it is one of the best free/open "starter" operating systems to introduce to newbies.

After being inspired by a submitted patch to support #Linux, I decided to put together a very dinky micro-site for #minwm (extremely minimal window manager)

https://minwm.btxx.org

#openbsd #desktop

Planning to switch over the default "page size" checker on 512KB & 1MB clubs to use DebugBear. I should have moved away from Cloudflare's scanner ages ago, but lack of support for the Pale Moon browser is the last straw...

New post on 1MB Club (just a small overview of the project's lifetime)

"Four More Years and Over 800 Websites Later"

https://1mb.club/blog/four-years/

#web #performance #blog

I’ve been playing around with a Rock Pi 4 Plus. Went with the default minimal Debian image, since fighting with U-boot wasn’t something I wanted to tackle yet 😛

Running Caddy on it and hosting https://caddy.ninja for testing purposes.

#sbc #caddy #selfHosting

Seems that SourceHut is getting slammed with another DDoS attack (on their meta system). This is why we can’t have nice things 🙄

#sourcehut #git #ddos

Finally took a bit of time to circle back and try out some performance tweaks for my wruby site generator.

Currently testing things a bit more, but I've managed to bring down subsequent site rebuilds (with 202 posts + 10 or so additional pages):

~1.816s to ~0.591s

(on my M2 MacBook Air)

#ruby #ssg