Just another day in Casa Quirk. 🤣
Does Money Buy Happiness?
Tuesdays Child talks about how they think money = happiness. Surprise surprise, I have thoughts. 🙃
Fairphone 1: Still going strong after 13 years
The Fairphone team talk through two examples of where the original Fairphone 1 from back in 2013 are "still very much in use", but I think this post is a little disingenuous.
Knowember 2026
My entry into Knowember 2026. I wasn't sure about this one, but figured it can't hurt.
BAITED
BAITED is the third Mike Humber book from RR Haywood. Another great British thriller.
How I Customised Pure Blog for This Site
A few people have asked what customisations I've made to Pure Blog for this site, so this post lists them.
Discoverability Is Only Solved If You Can Be Discovered
This is a follow up to my post where Widdershins talks about how they agree with certain parts of my argument, but that the discoverability piece is flawed.
SocialSpec Seems...Pointless
I've seen a few people talking about SocialSpec and the whole thing seems a bit pointless to me.
Been having some fun with my 404 page. I love discovering little Easter eggs like this on other people's sites. Just visit a random page, like https://kevquirk.com/mjkk
The Gate of the Feral Gods
I'm enjoying this series, but I think I might need a break after this one.
Hooman. I believe it is dinner time.
Pure Comments and the Fediverse
I've decided to revert the Fediverse integration I wrote into Pure Comments.
I've never really tracked my #100DaysToOffload effort very well, so I decided to create a page to help me track it. Turns out I've completed the challenge 7 times!
So. Hooman. Are you ready for our meeting?
Hooman, we are ready to receive your apple core. 🍎
Terence Eden asking on Mastodon what people's setups look like. Here's mine - 38" ultrawide LG monitor that docks to my Framework 13, Fully standing desk, fish tank and motorbike helmets on the wall. I love my home office, but I do like heading into the office too.
Year 4 at the Smallholding
Here's my annual update for this year (year 4) on the smallholding. This was one has been a mix of ups and downs.
We had a Hotpoint engineer come out to repair our washing machine yesterday. While replacing the machine, he forgot to connect the waste pipe and we came down to this mess this morning. 😡
The amount of AI generated sales emails I get these days is astonishing.
If you can't be arsed to write your own sales pitch, why the fuck should I be arsed about your product?
Why is Pure Blog so ugly?
Someone recently told me that they won't use Pure Blog because it's too ugly. I'm here to show you that's not true.