Kev Quirk
Kev Quirk — InfoSec professional and indie web advocate
Privacy, simplicity, and the indie web. Prolific blogger and community advocate.
kevquirk.comA prolific indie blogger writing about privacy, simplicity, and the joy of maintaining a personal site. Kev doesn't overthink it — posts are direct, opinionated, and refreshingly short. He's one of the most consistent voices in the indie web community, and the kind of blogger who makes you want to start your own.
Written by Kev Quirk since 2013.
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Another New Lick of Paint
Around a month ago I switched this blog to Pure Blog, at the same time, I decided to simplify the design and give it a new lick of paint. Here's what it looked like: It was okay. But I've done the box-shadow thing before, and I really wanted something different. The problem was, I didn't know what I wanted. Inspired My wife and I recently went away for the weekend. While away, we stopped off at a lovely little coffee shop where they served us water and a pot of tea from these beautifully colour...
Firefox AI Killswitch
Nice to see that the Firefox team have actually implemented their "AI killswitch" in the way that they said they would. Here's a screenshot from my copy of Firefox 148: Very happy to see this land, and it means I can end my hunt for a new browser for the time being. 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.
Quick Clarification on Pure Comments
A couple of people have reached out to me asking if I can offer a version of Pure Comments for their site, as they don't run Pure Blog. I obviously didn't make this clear in the announcement, or on the (now updated) Pure Comments site. Pure Comments can be used on ANY website. It's just an embed script, just like Disqus (only with no bloat or tracking). So you just have to upload the files to wherever you want to host Pure Comments, then add the following embed code wherever you want comments to...
Introducing Pure Comments (and Pure Commons)
A few weeks ago I introduced Pure Blog a simple PHP based blogging platform that I've since moved to and I'm very happy. Once Pure Blog was done, I shifted my focus to start improving my commenting system. I ended that post by saying: At this point it's battle tested and working great. However, there's still some rough edges in the code, and security could definitely be improved. So over the next few weeks I'll be doing that, at which point I'll probably release it to the public so you too can...
I Still Haven’t Found a New Browser, and That’s Ok
Back in December I wrote about whether Firefox is firefucked, and I ended that post by saying the following: Firefox won't be changing to a modern AI browser any time soon, so there's no rush for me to jump right now. So I'm planning to continue testing alternatives and just hope that the Mozilla leadership team have a course correction. But if the last few years have taught me anything, it's that a course correction is unlikely to happen. Since then I've continued to try other browsers, but n...
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