Kev Quirk

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📝 2026-07-20 08:10: Yup. Goat-proofing the chicken door really worked a treat. FML. 🤦🏼‍♂️

📝 2026-07-19 19:09: Today was spent goat-proofing the automatic chicken door. We recently moved it to ground level...

I've Moved Back to GitHub

📝 2026-07-16 17:05: Anyone using Pop!OS with Cosmic? I tried it when it was first released, but I...

📝 2026-07-16 11:47: A few of us were talking to one of the summer interns at work about...

📝 2026-07-14 23:24: I went for an 8km (5 mile) run this evening. I'm working my way up...

📝 2026-07-13 23:22: Every time I look at Sven's blog I get jealous. I loved his previous design...

📝 2026-07-13 08:12: Haven't worn this watch for months, but it's such a fun one to wear in...

📝 2026-07-12 10:08: It's a beautiful morning here in North Wales. My wife has taken our youngest to...

A Rant About Modern Cars

Extinct

📝 2026-07-10 09:19: I have just eaten a GIANT bowl of granola, fresh fruit, Greek yoghurt, and home...

📝 2026-07-07 18:43: Guinea fowl keets are doing great too. All 5 are loving life with their foster...

📝 2026-07-07 18:34: We now have 3 chicks - two white and one black.

📝 2026-07-07 07:06: First two chicks!

📝 2026-07-06 21:45: Two of the eggs are starting to hatch and we can hear multiple chicks cheeping...

Built for Exactly One

This blog is written in en-GB

📝 2026-07-02 23:05: I would say DeepSeek was the most accurate. 🤷🏼‍♂️ https://intheweights.com/p/kev-quirk

📝 2026-06-30 11:37: Our 2 hens have finished sitting on the Guinea fowl eggs - out of 10,...

The Laziest Generation

3D Printers are actually very useful

📝 2026-06-26 13:59: My first rather large #3DPrinting project. Can anyone work out what they are? (No they're...

📝 2026-06-26 09:57: You know what isn't fun? Living in a 200 year old stone house, with no...

📝 2026-06-23 12:58: Create one of those Uses pages. Still a work in progress, but there's a good...

📝 2026-06-22 09:39: The fox continues to prowl around our chickens. This morning we caught it in the...

No, I don't want you to summarise the page!

📝 2026-06-21 18:42: It's handy when your riding buddy is a photographer. You end up with some nice...

📝 2026-06-21 09:35: Some goats, just goating around, watching me mow the field.

Search Is Broken

📝 2026-06-19 12:25: Little chicks are starting to venture out from under mum. 🐥

Proud Dad Moment

📝 2026-06-17 13:56: So you know how we have the incubator setup? Well, unbeknownst to me, my wife...

Adding a Town Square

📝 2026-06-17 07:04: We have the incubator setup incubating a dozen eggs, including the last 2 our hen...

📝 2026-06-16 08:11: Sun's out, so there's only one way to travel to the office... ☀️

📝 2026-06-16 07:55: Like we don't have enough animals already. This little black blob will be joining us...

Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts?

AI Blog Questions Challenge

Career Update - Life After Stepping Down

📝 2026-06-10 21:05

📝 2026-06-09 13:00

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement

📝 2026-06-08 14:22

I Love F1

📝 2026-06-07 22:11

First Impressions of the Fitbit Air

📝 2026-06-06 18:02

It's Just Broken: Oh WordPress

Using Fountain Pens for Note Writing

Is Bitwarden preparing for a sale?

Replacing my ISP router with a UniFi Cloud Gateway Max

Upgrading My Home Internet to Full Fibre

Hey you, start communicating!

I'm off GitHub

My Inital Thoughts On Thunderbird Pro

Thoughts on Leaving GitHub

My Fear of Flying

Who knows that you blog?

Stop Ubuntu Resetting Your Icon Theme When Toggling Dark Mode

Update #2 on the Framework Saga

Why Is Everything Proprietary These Days?

ThinkPad T480 Initial Thoughts

Update on My Coffee Ridden Framework 13

My Best Sub £100 Purchase

On AI Images and Feature Images in General

I May Have Killed My Framework 13

I Wish I Could Talk to My Dad

Adding a Book Editor to My Pure Blog Site

How I Discover New Blogs

I've Completed 100 Days To Offload (Again)

Motorbike Servicing Rant

Obfuscating My Contact Email

Why Have a Dedicated Music Device?

I Hate Insurance!

AMA: Can One Setup Their Digital Life to Be Subscription Free?

Update on the eBay Scam

I Think I've Been Scammed On eBay!

Slowing Down on Pure Blog

A Year With The Framework 13

Another ANOTHER New Lick of Paint

Three Men Tried To Steal My Motorbike While I Was On It!

Fat Boy - Round 2

My WordPress - A Private In-Browser WordPress Install

Pure Blog Is Now Feature Complete...ish

Sunsetting The 512kb Club

How Many Holes Does a Straw Have?

📚 Flybot

Another New Lick of Paint

Firefox AI Killswitch

Quick Clarification on Pure Comments

Introducing Pure Comments (and Pure Commons)

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

Kids and Smartphones

Step Aside, Phone: Week 1

I Didn't Fail

Updates to My Commenting System

The Internet is a Hamster Wheel

A Random List of Silly Things I Hate

Step Aside, Phone!

I've Moved to Pure Blog!

Introducing Pure Blog

Will They Inherit Our Blogs?

When Was I Happiest?

Use the Bloody Shift Key!

Linux in the Air

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins

How You Read My Content (The Answers)

I've Pre-Ordered the Clicks Communicator

How Do You Read My Content?

Good Riddance, 2025

Is Firefox Firefucked?

The Fisherman and The Businessman

Year 3 at the Smallholding

How I Replaced My Son’s PC With an £88 iMac

Local vs Cloud

Static Site Generators

Adding Comments to My Jekyll Site

RE: Why Do You Need Big Tech for Your SSG?

Why Do You Need Big Tech for Your SSG?

Small Web, Big Voice

Giving My Jekyll Site a CDN Front End

Email Is Amazing, but People Try Their Best to Ruin It

What Happens After We Die?

Archive or Delete?

Stop Explaining What Things Are

Blogging Gets Serious in 2001 With Warblogs and Movable Type

Smartphones are not the enemy

10 More Pointless Facts About Me

Career Snakes & Ladders

Ten Pointless Facts About Me

I'm Selling Most of My Watches

Like, Share and Subscribe

Service Offerings from Mastodon

A Theory on Why Contact Forms Get More Spam Than Email Addresses

A Cartoonist's Review of AI Art

Switching from Buttondown to Sendy

When a Tool Becomes a Hobby

A Frank Piece About Influencers

Thinking About Social Media

Exit Strategy

Breaking Things, Fixing Things

Life is Really Shit Sometimes

Switching Back to Jekyll & Building My Own CMS

Rogue Protocol

Making Some Website Changes

Thinking About Simplification

Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries

All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries

The Shed on the Drive 🛖

💭 What Others Said...

New Watch Day

Follow Up on Notes

Delio Phase Two

Finding a Home on the Fediverse

The New Recruit (Liam Scott 01)

How Do You Take Notes?

A Month of Running

I Don't See the Point of Smartwatches

A New Lick of Paint

The Singularity Trap

Out With Old Tech, In With the New