Wife: I need help clipping the goat's hooves. Here, hold this...
Me: ...
Follow up from this post - I just signed into my Vinted account (to delete it) and it didn't send me an MFA SMS so how the fuck is me giving them my number securing my account in any way?
The internet is fucked.
Brilliant. I'm such a "valued customer" that they couldn't even be arsed to put my name in the email.
Why is it even necessary to have a "business intelligence database" with a 3rd party? I ordered a fucking laptop. Can a tech company not create their own customer database?
Full email here - https://cdn.kevquirk.com/framework-breach-email.pdf
I have a habit of giving all our pets nicknames, there's many of them for each of our dogs. We've Nelly for 4 days and already I have:
Nells Bells Nelly Bean Nelly Furtado Man Eater (after the song) Nelly the Elephant
It's anyone's guess which will stick. Our other dogs, Tia and Sid, are t-bone and squid (short for Sqidley) respectively. 🤷🏼♂️
New Pets, Sick Pets, and Hemorrhaging Money
It's been a crazy (and expensive) couple months at home!
Thinking about selling the 64GB RAM from my laptop and paying off my mortgage...
Our new addition to the family, Nelly, has arrived and she's causing havoc already. 🤣
Signed up for a Vinted account. My options to "secure my account" were adding a phone number, or to logout.
I fucking hate this side of the internet. Scumbags.
Today is the first of August. Where the hell did the first two thirds of 2026 go??? 😵💫
Linkception
The backbone of the internet is the hyperlink, so go forth and link out to your fellow bloggers with reckless abandon.
Left-Handed People Can’t Use a Fountain Pen
Apparently left-handed people can't use a fountain pen as the left hand smudges the ink as they write. I call bullshit on that.
Toot.community is shutting down
Sadly, toot.community is shutting down in October. This post talks about why Jorijn has made that decision.
Always fun when your bike runs out of electricity on the way to work.
Note to self: connect the trickle charger TONIGHT!
(Wife is on the way with my jump box to save me)
The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so clearly something was wrong. Luckily my wife was able to get hold of a local falconer who was able to catch him and hopefully nurse him back to health. 🦅
Taking the dogs for a walk with our oldest and we came across this beautiful buzzard just sat there. Wasn't bothered by us really. I just hope it doesn't have a bust wing or anything.
I think if I had my time again, I would have become a software developer. I just so much fun - coming up with ways to solve a problem in an elegant way is very satisfying.
Then people emailing saying they enjoy the tools I'm creating. Very rewarding!
Mind you, would it still be as fun if it was my job? I don't know. 🤔
Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You
Antonio opines that by using RSS feeds instead of visiting people's sites, we're robbing ourselves of enjoying the design many site owners have put a lot of work into.
Security versus Privacy
Loren talks about the differences between Security and Privacy, but also how (and why) he prioritises one over the other.
Yup. Goat-proofing the chicken door really worked a treat. FML. 🤦🏼♂️
Today was spent goat-proofing the automatic chicken door. We recently moved it to ground level and now the goats use it as a scratch post. 🐐