A Frank Piece About Influencers
A sharp look at the smoke and mirrors of influencer culture, where authenticity is staged, success is rented, and everything’s for sale. Ava reminds us that real life doesn’t need an audience.
Thinking About Social Media
Is social media in any form really worth the drama, and was it doomed to failure from the start?
Exit Strategy
Book #4 in the Murderbot Diaries series and still very much enjoyable.
Breaking Things, Fixing Things
Matt continues to make iterative changes to his blog and I'm really enjoying following along.
Life is Really Shit Sometimes
I'm not really sure what to say about this one. I have no more words.
Switching Back to Jekyll & Building My Own CMS
After flip-flopping about what I'm going to do with this site, I decided to flip to Jekyll and build my own little CMS while I'm at it. Because why not? 🤷🏻♂️
Screw it. I've ripped out all the comment and indieweb functionality. I was already starting to battle with noise and shit - it's just too complicated. I'll let Manton handle all that for me in Micro.blog.
Didn't last long, did it? 🤣
Spent some time this afternoon hooking up webmentions properly between Micro.blog and kevquirk.com so everything from Micro.blog now (hopefully) feeds back to the mother ship. We'll see if/when someone replies to this note. 🙃
Rogue Protocol
Book 3 in the Murderbot diaries was again very good, but goodness me the chapters were long!
Making Some Website Changes
I published a post about simplifying this site recently, I've made some changes, but I don't think I've simplified much.
Will everyone please stop taking about #Omarchy. It's too tempting!
My new CMF 2 Pro came with a free pair of Nothing Buds Pro 2. I wasn't expecting much as they're only £49 at full price.
But Jesus, these things are great! The sound is almost as good as my £200+ Sony buds.
Switched to a Nothing Phone CMF 2 last night. It's really, really nice. Can't believe it's a £200 phone.
If you're following this blog via RSS, I'm really sorry about the spam. I've made some functional changes to how the site works that required me to regenerate the RSS feeds.
The more I play with #Obsidian, the more I realise why people love it so much. They've thought of everything.
Thinking About Simplification
This site’s a fun playground, but it’s evolved into a cluttered maze. Lately I’ve been wondering if it’s time to strip it down so I can focus on writing.
I know lots of people don't like services like ChatGPT, but I get so much use out of it. It use it to tweak language here and there when needed (among other things). It's great for things like "hey Geeps, I don't like this paragraph, but I can't think of a better way to write it...".
Switched to #Spotify after my frustrations with #Apple Music. I forgot just how good the curated playlists are with Spotify!