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Bradley Taunt

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Bradley Taunt's personal blog at btxx.org covers programming and web. Since 2024, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 49 times, most often “Installing Gnome on OpenBSD”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.

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bradley_taunt · 2,863 karma · member since 2019

bradley_taunt.at.hn A designer / developer hybrid & software consultant. Passionate about beautiful UI, accessibility and web performance. * Website: [btxx.org](https://btxx.org) * Mastodon: [@bt](https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@bt)

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Installing Gnome on OpenBSD
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-08
  2. Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-11
  3. Git Your Freedom Back: A Beginner's Guide to Sourcehut
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-26
  4. The X220 ThinkPad Is the Best Laptop in the World
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-18
  5. Hosting Multiple Websites Under One NearlyFreeSpeech Site
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-14
  6. Please make your table headings sticky
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-23
  7. OpenBSD is a cozy operating system
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-12
  8. So Long Relayd, and Thanks for All the Fish
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-18
  9. What Happens After I'm Gone? The Future of the Online Me
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-12
  10. Snail Mail Sign-Ups
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. Ah you're the pizza guy! I remember discovering you thru Brad's pizza page: https://btxx.org/pizza/

    Comment linking /pizza/

    on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)”
  2. Submitted Please make your table headings sticky as a story · 354 points

    HN discussion
  3. Indeed. I know of two "best laptops ever made": Drew DeVault says it's the X200: https://drewdevault.com/blog/Fucking-laptops/ « The best laptop ever made is the ThinkPad X200, and I have two of them. » He has a very strong case. I own one. It is certainly one of the best ever. On the other hand, Brad Taunt says it is the X220: https://btxx.org/posts/x220/ « The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you…

    Comment linking /posts/x220/

    on “Google ending ChromeOS support two years early”
  4. Submitted OpenBSD is a cozy operating system as a story · 118 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 (2023) as a story · 76 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Working with Git Patches in Apple Mail (2023) as a story · 50 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The X220 ThinkPad Is the Best Laptop in the World as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running in RAM as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Burning and Playing PS2 Games Without a Modded Console as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Embracing Slow Tech as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted 1984: The Canadian Edition as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted My Text Editor Is Not Open Source as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted OpenBSD Is a Cozy Operating System as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted OpenBSD VPS for $5 a Year as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Installing SerenityOS on My Old ThinkPad T60 as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted No longer having only one OS on all my devices as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Hosting Multiple Websites Under One NearlyFreeSpeech Site as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted So Long Relayd, and Thanks for All the Fish as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Git Your Freedom Back: A Beginner's Guide to Sourcehut as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Installing Gnome on OpenBSD as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Installing Gnome on OpenBSD 7.8 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted What Happens After I'm Gone? The Future of the Online Me as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Starlink, OpenWrt, and Eeros Oh My as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Red Hat Plans to Add AI to Fedora and Gnome as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Git Your Freedom Back: A Beginner's Guide to Sourcehut as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Vertical Tabs in Safari as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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