Kev Quirk

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Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

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  • Upgrading My Home Internet to Full Fibre

    As many regular readers know, we live in the North Wales countryside, which means it can take time to get the latest ...

  • Hey you, start communicating!

    Hey you, start communicating!by David JamiesonDavid talks about why it's good to reach out to authors when you read t...

  • I'm off GitHub

    Ok, that's it. I'm officially off GitHub. First I moved all of my private repos to my Synology, which was extremely e...

  • My Inital Thoughts On Thunderbird Pro

    Yesterday I received an email from the Thunderbird team inviting me to join a preview of their new hosted email servi...

  • Thoughts on Leaving GitHub

    I've read a few posts about people leaving GitHub recently, and following my short note to the Fediverse a number of ...

  • My Fear of Flying

    I was recently reading The Long Ride Home by Nathan Millward and at one point in the book he talks about having to ge...

  • Who knows that you blog?

    Who knows that you blog?by David JamiesonDavid talks about his reluctance to share details about his blog with a coll...

  • Stop Ubuntu Resetting Your Icon Theme When Toggling Dark Mode

    The Papirus icon theme is my favourite - I've used it for years and it continues to work beautifully. So while I've b...

  • Update #2 on the Framework Saga

    In case you hadn't heard (it's all I've been going on about for a couple weeks, so you probably have heard - sorry) I...

  • Why Is Everything Proprietary These Days?

    After 10 years of loyal service, the motorbike jacket that I wear most often gave up the ghost recently and ripped. B...

  • ThinkPad T480 Initial Thoughts

    Since my Framework had a coffee bath, I've been using a ThinkPad T480 that I picked up from eBay for £285 ($385). Thi...

  • Update on My Coffee Ridden Framework 13

    A week or so ago, I talked about how I might have killed my Framework 13 by dumping a full mug of coffee over it whil...

  • My Best Sub £100 Purchase

    I was recently listening to an episode of The Idea Roastery about personal life gamechangers and toward the end of th...

  • On AI Images and Feature Images in General

    When is AI image slop ok? By Gordon Mclean Gordon stumbled across a post arguing that AI-generated featured images si...

  • I May Have Killed My Framework 13

    I was in the office today, working away, and I often have my personal laptop, a Framework 13 next to me so I do thing...

  • I Wish I Could Talk to My Dad

    My best friend lost his Dad yesterday. Understandably he's extremely upset, and I feel awful for him. I never know wh...

  • Adding a Book Editor to My Pure Blog Site

    Regular readers will know that I've been on quite the CMS journey over the years. WordPress, Grav, Jekyll, Kirby, my ...

  • How I Discover New Blogs

    Finding a new blog to read is one of my favourite things to do online. It genuinely brings me joy. Right now I have 2...

  • I've Completed 100 Days To Offload (Again)

    I just published my motorbike servicing rant and went over to my Pure Blog Dashboard to take a look at some stats, wh...

  • Motorbike Servicing Rant

    So my BMW S1000XR is now a year old and it's going in for its first "full service". It had it's "break in" service af...