bt.ht

Rambling about design, programming, hardware and Linux

I'm Brad Taunt, a UX-focused front-end designer, technical writer, and self-taught developer who creates enjoyable experiences for humans.

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.

UX Designer & Front-End Engineer @ Donorbox.


2023-03-16
Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux
2023-03-14
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts
2023-03-09
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos
2023-03-03
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
2023-02-08
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
2023-01-09
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2022-12-23
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
2022-12-08
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
2022-12-02
Building openring with Jekyll Build
2022-11-23
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-22
Embracing Slow Tech
2022-11-14
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut
2022-11-07
Never Do Spec Work for Free
2022-11-04
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero
2022-10-14
Avoiding Featurism
2022-10-03
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
2022-09-22
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box
2022-09-20
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
2022-09-19
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System
2022-09-10
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
2022-09-08
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble
2022-09-02
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
2022-08-12
Looping Through Jekyll Collections
2022-08-02
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-07-29
Hosting with Codeberg Pages
2022-07-14
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
2022-07-06
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-06-29
Happily Paying For macOS Apps
2022-06-20
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-05-30
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software
2022-05-23
RSS Hacks With XSLT
2022-05-17
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser
2022-05-13
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
2022-04-18
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color
2022-03-21
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers
2022-03-14
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero
2022-03-12
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-02-23
February 2022 Update
2022-02-03
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-01-28
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions
2022-01-06
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2021-12-17
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
2021-12-06
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
2021-12-03
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-11-25
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
2021-11-09
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles
2021-11-03
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist
2021-10-28
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-15
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
2021-09-23
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
2021-09-08
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog
2021-08-13
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
2021-07-24
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-06-20
PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS
2021-06-07
CSS Slope Graphs
2021-05-29
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
2021-05-19
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-04-27
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons
2021-04-22
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File
2021-04-13
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS
2021-04-12
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
2021-03-25
Click to Load Website Images
2021-03-11
Introducing PageRoast
2021-02-25
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names
2021-02-02
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-01-19
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-13
Introducing Notez
2021-01-05
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2020-12-28
Disabling Comments in WordPress
2020-12-08
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
2020-12-04
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
2020-11-09
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
2020-10-19
Menu Toggle with Pure CSS
2020-10-07
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout
2020-09-29
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0
2020-09-16
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
2020-09-09
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge
2020-09-02
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
2020-08-16
Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup
2020-08-13
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-07-07
Improving Github's New Design
2020-06-22
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-14
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-04
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
2020-05-13
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS
2020-05-06
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
2020-05-05
WP Enqueue for Beginners
2020-04-29
Faking 3D Elements with CSS
2020-03-31
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)
2020-03-18
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
2020-02-07
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
2020-01-07
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2019-11-29
Billing for One CSS Change
2019-11-13
Very Basic Form Styling
2019-11-01
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll
2019-10-06
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
2019-09-28
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
2019-09-09
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-07-30
Dynamic Checkboxes
2019-07-17
Styling Empty Table Cells
2019-07-05
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-06-25
They Won't Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites
2019-06-20
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
2019-06-14
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
2019-06-11
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
2019-06-06
Write HTML Like It's 1999
2019-06-04
Using User-Select
2019-05-29
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
2019-05-22
Text Align: Justify
2019-05-15
Improving Receipt UX
2019-05-09
Cut Your Forms in Half
2019-05-03
First Letter Pseudo Element
2019-04-26
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu
2019-04-23
CSS Character Unit
2019-04-20
Browser History Sucks
2019-04-15
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
2019-04-13
CSS Value: `currentColor`
2019-04-05
CSS: Indenting Text
2019-03-26
Simple Does Not Mean Ugly
2019-03-25
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-13
Prescription Form UI Improvements
2019-02-27
Animated Card Tiles
2019-02-18
Easy Toggle Switches
2019-02-15
Super Mario Blocks in CSS
2019-02-05
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-01-28
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript
2019-01-21
Easy Custom Radio Inputs
2019-01-15
Basic Gulp Build for Sass
2019-01-08
Better Box Shadows
2019-01-06
Over-Nesting
2018-12-19
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-11-28
Width or Flex-Basis?
2018-11-22
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-10-18
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-09-28
Using Multiple CSS Background Images
2018-09-20
Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin
2018-09-07
Simple Accessibility
2018-08-07
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-04-16
CSS Video Backgrounds
2018-03-24
CSS Variables
2018-02-12
Stay Hungry
2018-01-25
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-14
ET-Jekyll Theme
2017-11-20
Chasing Performance
2017-11-01
The Death of Personality
2017-10-10
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox
2017-09-07
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-07-10
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2016-11-15
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
2016-06-28
Aqua UI CSS Buttons