Kev Quirk

Proudly ruining the web since 2013.

Tag: meta

Less Blogging About Blogging

Brandon talks about his desire to write less about blogging. I'm not sure I agree though.

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On This Site & Financial Stability

I've been thinking about the future of this site recently, and I wanted to pen down some of the thoughts that have been rattling around my grey matter.

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Improving My Watch Log

I recently wrote about adding a watch wearing log to this site. I've been working away on improving it, and I think it's pretty great.

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Adding a Watch Wearing Log to This Site

Everyone knows I'm a watch geek, but I've now taken it one step further and added a watch wearing log to this site.

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Adding Replies & Reactions to My Guestbook

Since I launched my guestbook back in February, lots of people have signed it, but I couldn't reply to them. Now I can.

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I Stopped Mastodon DDoSing Me (I Think)

I recently wrote about how Mastodon is DDoSing me every time I post a link to this site. I've managed to fix the problem...I think.

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Mastodon Is DDoSing Me

Whenever I, or someone else, posts a link to this blog on Mastodon, it DDoS's me and brings the site down for a couple minutes.

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What About Anonymous Blogging?

Have you ever thought about blogging anonymously? I blog under my real name, but wonder if that could have held me back...

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New Layout

I recently wrote about how I was thinking about a new layout on this site. After taking some time to think it through, I've now published it.

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Thinking about a New Layout

I've been thinking about making some changes to the layout of this site, but I'm on the fence. What do you think of these mockups?

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I've Finally Completed 100 Days to Offload

I started the #100DaysToOffload challenge back in April 2020, but I've never been able to complete it. That has now changed. 🎉

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Guestbook Spam is Fun

Since launching my Guestbook yesterday, I've been hit with a bunch of spam entries. I forgot how much \"fun\" it is dealing with this shit.

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I Have a Guestbook

After seeing Manu's guestbook, I had to get in on the action, so I've decided to create my own guestbook.

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Why I Don't Write About Security

If you don't know, I work in the InfoSec / cyber / whatever you want to call it industry. So why don't I write about InfoSec here on this blog?

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Adding a Random Post Button to Kirby

I've added a feature where you can click a button and visit a random post. I wasn't able to find this documented with Kirby, so thought I'd share how I did it in case is helps others.

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Building a PenPal System

Since deciding to start the whole PenPal thing, I wanted a way of managing those posts from within my CMS. This is how I did it.

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Friends from Blogging

I've been lucky enough to make a number of friends off the back of this blog (and also their blogs). This is a bit of a feel good post about how social media isn't the only way to meet new people.

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Having a Microblog on a Traditional Blog

I was recently talking to Jatan Mehta about microblogging vs traditional blogging, and what should go where. I thought it was an interesting conversation, so decided to share my opinions here too.

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Absolutely Do Not Change Your Blogging Platform

According to Matt, you should absolutely NOT change you blogging platform - I should probably take this advice on board.

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Migrating This Blog to Kirby

Yes, that's right dear reader, this site has gone through yet another change - it's now based on Kirby and I think I've finally found my blogging utopia.

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