Kev Quirk

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Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

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  • My WordPress - A Private In-Browser WordPress Install

    I saw this while perusing my RSS feeds last night, and thought it was interesting. In all honesty, I've completely mo...

  • Pure Blog Is Now Feature Complete...ish

    I've just released v1.8.0 of Pure Blog, which was the final big feature I wanted to add1. At this point, Pure Blog do...

  • Sunsetting The 512kb Club

    All good things must come to an end, and today is that day for one of my projects, the 512kb Club. I started the 512k...

  • How Many Holes Does a Straw Have?

    I was recently listening to an episode of The Rest Is Science, specifically the episode The Evolution Of The Butthole...

  • 📚 Flybot

    by Dennis E. Taylor Physicist Philip Moray is having a good day. He’s chipping away at his big work project. The lunc...

  • Another New Lick of Paint

    Around a month ago I switched this blog to Pure Blog, at the same time, I decided to simplify the design and give it ...

  • Firefox AI Killswitch

    Nice to see that the Firefox team have actually implemented their "AI killswitch" in the way that they said they woul...

  • Quick Clarification on Pure Comments

    A couple of people have reached out to me asking if I can offer a version of Pure Comments for their site, as they do...

  • Introducing Pure Comments (and Pure Commons)

    A few weeks ago I introduced Pure Blog a simple PHP based blogging platform that I've since moved to and I'm very hap...

  • I Still Haven’t Found a New Browser, and That’s Ok

    Back in December I wrote about whether Firefox is firefucked, and I ended that post by saying the following: Firefox ...

  • Kids and Smartphones

    My oldest son is 11. He'll be starting high school in September, and my wife and I want a way of keeping in touch wit...

  • Step Aside, Phone: Week 1

    OK, so here we are at the end of the first week of Step Aside, Phone. Quick re-cap from last week - my average phone ...

  • I Didn't Fail

    A good friend of mine at work was recently promoted to the same level as I was before I stepped down. I'm happy for h...

  • Updates to My Commenting System

    I've been making some updates to my personal commenting system. Before they looked like this: It was just a simple ta...

  • The Internet is a Hamster Wheel

    I was listening to a recent episode of The Rest is Science (fantastic Podcast, by the way - go listen), and in this p...

  • A Random List of Silly Things I Hate

    Apparently this is a thing now, so I'm gonna join in. 🙃 Seafood. 🤢 Rude people. Late people. People who don't like do...

  • Step Aside, Phone!

    I read this post on Manu's blog and it immediately resonated. I've been spending more time than I'd like to admit sta...

  • I've Moved to Pure Blog!

    In my last post I introduced Pure Blog and ended the post by saying: I'm going to take a little break from coding for...

  • Introducing Pure Blog

    The keen eyed among you will have noticed that things have been quiet around here recently, and that's because I've b...

  • Will They Inherit Our Blogs?

    I've thought about this topic more generally before, but this one is specifically about blogging. This blog is by far...