How I Replaced My Son’s PC With an £88 iMac
I recently replaced my son's broken PC with a 2015 iMac from eBay. Here's how it went...
📅 28 November 2025
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Welcome 👋🏻
Hi, I’m Kev and this is my corner of the web — part blog, part soapbox. You’ll find tech experiments, the occasional rant, and more than a few opinions that are probably wrong (but fun to argue about). Have a wander, you might find something interesting.
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Local vs Cloud
I was listening to the Waveform podcast on my way to work this morning and they were talking about cloud vs local computing, and I have thoughts...
📅 27 November 2025
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Static Site Generators
Jan talks about how static site generators are far more complicated than WordPress, despite (ironically) their output being far simpler.
📅 25 November 2025
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Adding Comments to My Jekyll Site
I've been working on adding support for comments over the last few months. On a static site, that's hard, but it's finally done.
📅 21 November 2025
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RE: Why Do You Need Big Tech for Your SSG?
Loren posts a response arguing that while self-hosting and local builds have their charm, the simplicity and zero-maintenance nature of services like Netlify often make them the more practical choice for small personal sites.
📅 20 November 2025
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Why Do You Need Big Tech for Your SSG?
A look at why small, personal websites don’t need big-tech static hosting, and how a simple local build and rsync workflow gives you faster deploys, more control, and far fewer dependencies.
📅 19 November 2025
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Small Web, Big Voice
Andre argues that independent blogging isn’t about scale at all, but about integrity — choosing a place you control, writing in your own voice, and keeping the web human.
📅 15 November 2025
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Giving My Jekyll Site a CDN Front End
I've managed to get my Jekyll based site working behind Bunny CDN, while maintaining my .htaccess redirects. Here's how I did it...
📅 14 November 2025
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Email Is Amazing, but People Try Their Best to Ruin It
Alex explores how stepping back from noisy, instant communication helped him fall back in love with email as a calmer, more human medium.
📅 13 November 2025
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What Happens After We Die?
My mum recently asked me what I think happens after we die. Not being religious, I think my response surprised her.
📅 11 November 2025