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.
I have had a personal website for quite a few years now and for most of that time I have used a CMS (Content Management System). I’ve now decided to move over to a static website, but what is a static website and why the change?
📅 10 June 2018
It has been a couple of days since the announcement was made that Microsoft acquires GitHub, here's my thoughts...
📅 06 June 2018
So I was browsing my Twitter feed recently, and I came across a tweet exclaiming that password books are a ridiculous idea. But are they?
📅 14 May 2018
It has been 6 months since I decided to de-Google my life, so I thought I would do an update post to let you guys know how I’m getting on, what’s changed since my last de-Googling post, and most importantly, have I gone back to the big blue G?
📅 06 May 2018
A guide on setting up a Nextcloud server on the humble Raspberry Pi 3+
📅 01 May 2018
You may have heard of Let’s Encrypt, the free certificate authority who are hell-bent on getting HTTPS everywhere. But why is that little green padlock in your browser so important? Let’s take a look…
📅 22 March 2018
You’re a technical person. You don’t need to use a password manager, because you have mastered the art of obfuscating your password so it can never be cracked, right? Wrong! Let’s have a chat about why your password is probably crap…
📅 04 January 2018
I recently got chatting to someone on Fosstodon about password security and in particular, password managers. But I thought I’d share my thoughts here also, as I have much more than 500 characters to play with.
📅 27 December 2017
The process of de-Googling my life has now come to end, and I’m pretty happy with the results. However, we all know that Google pretty much runs the Internet, and although I have managed to escape the clutches of Google in many ways, there are some Google services that are simply not feasible for me to stop using.
📅 09 November 2017
Ok guys, it’s time. Let’s be honest, this is the article in the series you have all been waiting for. Gmail is a goner!
📅 28 October 2017
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