Yup. Goat-proofing the chicken door really worked a treat. FML. 🤦🏼♂️ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by e … | Continue reading
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. 🐐 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are y … | Continue reading
Back in May, I wrote a post about how I'd migrated all my repos away from GitHub. This ended up being a combination of my self-hosted Git server on my Synology (for my private repos) and Codeberg for my public ones. Well, since then Codeberg has just given me problem after proble … | Continue reading
Anyone using Pop!_OS with Cosmic? I tried it when it was first released, but I looks like they've done a lot of dev work to it and it's improving all the time. Considering installing it again... Thanks for readi … | Continue reading
A few of us were talking to one of the summer interns at work about age: Someone: How old do you think Kev is? Intern: [with all the confidence in the world] 50? I turn 42 in August. FML. 🤣 Thanks for re … | Continue reading
I went for an 8km (5 mile) run this evening. I'm working my way up to 10km, but I think this was a little too much, too soon. We'll see how my middle-aged joints are in the morning... Thanks for reading this pos … | Continue reading
Every time I look at Sven's blog I get jealous. I loved his previous design so much I copied it (with his permission). His new design is so fun and it's making me want to make mine more fun (no copying this time though). I'm just not sure I have the time at the moment. 🤔 … | Continue reading
Haven't worn this watch for months, but it's such a fun one to wear in summer. Beautiful dial and a Seiko movement that will probably outlive me. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you … | Continue reading
It's a beautiful morning here in North Wales. My wife has taken our youngest to his cricket match, and our oldest is upstairs playing with his Lego out of the heat. Me? I'm sitting in the sunroom, listening to the goats and chickens, with a coffee and book. Perfect Sunday morning … | Continue reading
I recently bought a new Peugeot and the experience of getting setup on their online platform has been painful to say the least. Yesterday I picked up my shiny new (to me) Peugeot E-3008 GT. It's a beautiful car with lots of bells, whistles, and toys. I had my little MG EV for aro … | Continue reading
ExtinctAuthor: RR HaywoodGenre: Sci-fiReleased: 2018Rating: ★★★★☆The end of the world has been avoided—for now. With Miri and her team of extracted heroes still on the run, Mother, the disgraced former head of the British Secret Service, has other ideas… While Mother retreats to … | Continue reading
I have just eaten a GIANT bowl of granola, fresh fruit, Greek yoghurt, and home grown honey (by one of our neighbours). I have zero regrets, but I may skip lunch today. 🤣 Thanks for reading this post via … | Continue reading
Guinea fowl keets are doing great too. All 5 are loving life with their foster mums. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by … | Continue reading
We now have 3 chicks - two white and one black. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment. | Continue reading
First two chicks! Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment. | Continue reading
Two of the eggs are starting to hatch and we can hear multiple chicks cheeping away. Exciting! 🐣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can repl … | Continue reading
Built for Exactly Oneby Amit GawandeAmit talks about what motivated him to build his custom blogging platform, Jot. It's an interesting read that resonated with me as it aligns with why I created Pure Blog.Read post ➡ A month ago, this website moved to a custom engine that I bu … | Continue reading
This blog is written in en-GBby Terence EdenTerrence talks about some of the wonderful idiosyncrasies of the British language and that, no, he won't be making his writing more global.Read post ➡ I really enjoyed this post and like that Terrance could have said "year sure, I'll t … | Continue reading
I would say DeepSeek was the most accurate. 🤷🏼♂️ https://intheweights.com/p/kev-quirk Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply … | Continue reading
Our 2 hens have finished sitting on the Guinea fowl eggs - out of 10, we managed to hatch 5 of them. The chicken eggs we have in the incubator won't be ready for another week or so. Excited to see how many of them we get. … | Continue reading
The Laziest Generationby Ibrahim DialloIbrahim talks about house prices in the US, how it's only getting worse, and the perception from previous generations that kids today are somehow lazy because they can't afford a house before the age of 40.Read post ➡ Being the father of 2 … | Continue reading
I recently started getting into 3D printing, but so far I've spent most of my time getting setup and learning the ropes. I've now completed my first little project with the 3D printers and I'm really happy with the result. As a biker of many years I have a number of helmets lying … | Continue reading
My first rather large #3DPrinting project. Can anyone work out what they are? (No they're not abstract Starship Enterprises) Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ … | Continue reading
You know what isn't fun? Living in a 200 year old stone house, with no insulation, during a heatwave. There's collapsed animals (not literally) and fans all over the place. 🥵️ Thanks for reading this po … | Continue reading
Create one of those Uses pages. Still a work in progress, but there's a good chunk of the stuff I use on there now. https://kevquirk.com/uses Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ … | Continue reading
The fox continues to prowl around our chickens. This morning we caught it in the GARDEN a few feet from our favourite chicken. Luckily the magpies warned us and we were able to scare it away. It's not nice keeping the little cluckers cooped up in this heat, but needs must unfortu … | Continue reading
I've talked about LLMs a few times here - the TL;DR is that I find them useful for certain use cases. Searching something complex? Great. Checking my code, or helping me with a problem in said code? Count me in. But summarising a page I'm reading? Absofuckinglutely not. One of th … | Continue reading
It's handy when your riding buddy is a photographer. You end up with some nice photos. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by … | Continue reading
Some goats, just goating around, watching me mow the field. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment. | Continue reading
I was listening to Late Night Linux 390 during my evening walking with the pooches tonight, and they were talking about (among other things) Kagi search. I've tried Kagi myself, but ultimately cancelled my subscription as I didn't really see the point in paying for it when I coul … | Continue reading
Little chicks are starting to venture out from under mum. 🐥 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a c … | Continue reading
Yesterday was sports day at my kids' school, and usually it consists of us standing in a field, being baked by the sun, waiting for our kids to come on and do their couple races each. All in all, I'm only ever interested in a couple minutes of the 2.5 hours we stand there. Usuall … | Continue reading
So you know how we have the incubator setup? Well, unbeknownst to me, my wife gave one of our broody hens a cluch of Guinea fowl eggs to sit on a month ago. She just sent me this... Thanks for reading this post … | Continue reading
I recently learned about this fantastic project where visitors are able to "chat" with one another in a fun and private way. I had to try it! So now, at the bottom of every page on this site, you will see my little town square. Please take a look and have some fun with it. If you … | Continue reading
We have the incubator setup incubating a dozen eggs, including the last 2 our hen that was caught by the fox layed. Expect regular updates. 🐣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are … | Continue reading
Sun's out, so there's only one way to travel to the office... ☀️ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comm … | Continue reading
Like we don't have enough animals already. This little black blob will be joining us on August. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to thi … | Continue reading
Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts?by Michael HarleyMichael makes the case for us bloggers to use better titles when writing our posts as it helps discovery.Read post ➡ I agree with Michael on this, but I realised that since adding other post types to my RSS feed … | Continue reading
Ava did it, then Manu did it, then Thomas did it. So now I'm joining in. I haven't written a lot about AI on this site, so maybe this will give you all some insights as to what my opinions are on it all. 1. How was your first experience with AI models? I don't remember my first t … | Continue reading
Can someone who's more green fingered than me tell me is this is giant hogweed please? It's all over one of our fields, so if it is I'll need to get someone in to get rid of it. Thanks for reading this post vi … | Continue reading
I can think of worse places to walk the dogs... Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment. | Continue reading
You know what the absolute worst part of owning an EV is? It's when you get in the car with the kids and there's 67% battery left. ⁶🤷⁷ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ … | Continue reading
So a fox came into the field and took a chicken from right in front of us at dinner time last night. Unfortunately we couldn't get to it in time. Our rooster tried, but he wasn't successful either. We have her last egg, so we're gonna try and hatch it. 😟 … | Continue reading
Dammit. My first attempt at a 2 colour print has failed - the filament keeps getting jammed from the AMS for some reason. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ … | Continue reading
Last October I made the decision to step down from my role as a global executive in the cybersecurity industry. The last 8 months have gone by in a flash, so I wanted to write a little update on how it's going. Do I regret the decision? Was it the right thing to do? Or have I scr … | Continue reading
I'm quite liking #Vivaldi, especially now I have dark/light mode switching working in #Ubuntu. If it sticks, I'll play with their email and RSS integration next. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, … | Continue reading
Yep, I definitely won't buy a bigger #3DPrinter. 🫣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment. | Continue reading
An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcementby The Document FoundationThe Document Foundation shares its history to rebuke claims made by Euro-Office about being Europe's first open-source office suite. They argue that by hiding its code provenan … | Continue reading