Welcome to the RSS Club. If you can read this, you’re part of my secret society. | Continue reading
I’ve removed pagination from my blog for SEO reasons. This post explains why. | Continue reading
I was recently listening to a Linux podcast and it was the perfect example of what’s wrong with the Linux community | Continue reading
I wrote an article a while ago about why I’m ditching Android. That article got numerous comments asking why I was so concerned about privacy and asking what I have to hide. | Continue reading
I’ve had my MacBook Air M1 for 4 months now, here’s an update on how things are going with this little device. | Continue reading
Bradley Taunt recently wrote about his utopia; an Internet without CSS or JavaScript. I’m not sure I agree with him. | Continue reading
There’s an annoying craze that all the cool kids on Twitter do. Twitter threads. Please stop; write a blog post instead. | Continue reading
I recently had a session with the incredibly talented Oliver Schöndorfer, who gave some great tips for improving my website's typography. | Continue reading
Having a useful about page, like mine, is very important as it lets your readers both learn about you and connect with you. | Continue reading
Google recently announced Core Web Vitals and it worries WordPress site owners everywhere. I get a perfect 100 across the board, here's how... | Continue reading
I've recently been trying to improve my WordPress hosting workflow, and the related costs involved.It hasn't been a great success so far. | Continue reading
Yes, dear reader, you read that right. I was once run over twice in one day and this inaugural Story Time post tells the story of how I managed to do it. So let's start where all good stories begin...at the start. It's the late 80s, possibly the early 90s,… | Continue reading
So today I signed up for an SEOPress Pro account and migrated my site over to them from Yoast. I did this because of the recent acquisition of Yoast by Newfold Digital. If you don't know, Newfold are a hosting company that own popular shared hosts like Bluehost and Hostgator.… | Continue reading
I recently wrote about online conversations and engagements where I talked about using plain old email instead of comments. Off the back of that post, I got chatting with Luke ... More --> | Continue reading
I’ve decided to do something a little different over the coming weeks and months. I’m going to start writing about some of the more amusing anecdotes from my past. I’ve ... More --> | Continue reading
I recently bought myself an M1 Macbook Air and I wanted to share my first impressions of MacOS as someone who has never used it before. | Continue reading
So remember a couple of days ago when I announced I would be killing The Meta Letter? Well, off the back of that announcement I received TONNES of requests (3 ... More --> | Continue reading
So I’ve been thinking about killing my newsletter, The Meta Letter, recently. Today I decided to take the plunge and kill it off. It’s bittersweet, but I had to. I ... More --> | Continue reading
I recently decided to switch from Yoast to RankMath as my WordPress SEO plugin. It didn't go well. This post compares Yoast vs RankMath. | Continue reading
I’ve seen a number of people adding a uses page to their site. If you don’t know, a uses page lists the hardware and software one uses regularly. I’ve been ... More --> | Continue reading
PiHole is a great application, but what if you go crazy with the block lists? This post show you how to restore the default PiHole block lists. | Continue reading
I just read this post by my good mate Mike Stone. In the post he talks about the redesign of the Mycroft Mark II that was announced. I won’t spoil ... More --> | Continue reading
I recently wrote about why I think complaints about the stability of Windows are unfounded. Since then, I've actually said goodbye to Linux. | Continue reading
Online conversations and the measure of website engagement are broken in my opinion. This post talks about my approach to all this. | Continue reading
When I check my web analytics my response is often frustration, or even mild anxiety. It's not healthy, so what's the point? | Continue reading
I've been thinking about starting to journal, but being the nerd that I am, I wanted something techie. So I built a self-hosted journal. | Continue reading
I regularly get emails from site owners asking me to link share with a post on their site. But one link sharing request I got recently was a corker... | Continue reading
I regularly delete content from Twitter, Mastodon and this blog. This may seem strange to many people, so this post explains why I do that. | Continue reading
Why do people continue to use Medium for their blogs? It has an awful UX and owning my data on my own site is much more enticing to me. | Continue reading
Nathan Wrigley asked a question on Twitter, but the 240 characters Twitter provides wasn’t enough, so I thought I’d post a note here instead. Nathan asked… I’m not that familiar ... More --> | Continue reading
I just read Scott Nesbitt’s latest weekly musing (it’s an excellent newsletter, you should definitely subscribe) on Chrome’s new follow button. In the post, Scott talks about how people are ... More --> | Continue reading
Tux, the unofficial Linux mascot makes my skin crawl, but he’s here to stay. I hate him and here’s a little post as to why. | Continue reading
I hear lots of people in the Linux community say that Windows is really unstable, but how unstable is Windows really? I share my thoughts. | Continue reading
Hey there folks. If you’re subscribed to my newsletter, you probably heard that I’m super busy at the moment. So I’ve been thinking about how I can reduce my workload ... More --> | Continue reading
Hi there! 👋 I’m Kev Quirk, a cyber security nerd, web design enthusiast and privacy advocate from the UK. Welcome to my website. | Continue reading
Hi there! 👋 I’m Kev Quirk, a cyber security nerd, web design enthusiast and privacy advocate from the UK. Welcome to my website. | Continue reading
Hi there! 👋 I’m Kev Quirk, a cyber security nerd, web design enthusiast and privacy advocate from the UK. Welcome to my website. | Continue reading
Hi there! 👋 I’m Kev Quirk, a cyber security nerd, web design enthusiast and privacy advocate from the UK. Welcome to my website. | Continue reading
Things have been pretty quiet around here recently. This is actually the first time I’ve published something in over a month, so I wanted to give you fine folks a ... More --> | Continue reading
The difference between padding and margin is a bit of a quandary for CSS newcomers. This post explains the difference between them. | Continue reading
I decided that I was sick my my site having no character, so I've made some changes to make it a bit more interesting. | Continue reading
Richard Stallman has re-joined the board of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) here's my thoughts on the whole thing. | Continue reading
WordPress has a reputation of being really slow, but that isn't true. Here's how I speed up my WordPress site to get 100 on Lighthouse. | Continue reading
I decided to ditch my personally developed theme in favour of Wordpress’ latest theme, Twenty Twenty One. Here’s why... | Continue reading
Getting started with Git is difficult, so I decided to write a simple getting started with Git guide. Hopefully it will help you get started. | Continue reading
A month ago I flipped back from Jekyll to WordPress and nobody noticed. That, my friends, it how performant WordPress can be. | Continue reading
Want to know how to remove the HTML extension from a URL? This post has a couple of solutions on how to remove the HTML extensions easily. | Continue reading
For some reason, people think that using JavaScript is bad. Is JavaScript bad? I think it can be bad, but it's not inherently bad. | Continue reading