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Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD 2026-07-18 This website is being served to you from my HP T630 thin client, running OpenBSD and httpd. Pretty cool, right? And best of all you can do the same! Update: OpenBSD is no longer used to serve

Installing SerenityOS on My Old ThinkPad T60 2026-06-28 I recently had the urge to play around with SerenityOS on real hardware. Since the project is slightly catered towards older machines, I figured my ThinkPad T60 was a perfect candidate for running on

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 entirely from me

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 interesting comment t

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 home networks. Imp

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 concerned about ju

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 application, it helps to

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 too long ago, afte