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Kev Quirk — InfoSec professional and indie web advocate

Privacy, simplicity, and the indie web. Prolific blogger and community advocate.

A 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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Introducing Pure Comments (and Pure Commons)

February 25, 2026

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

February 21, 2026

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...

Kids and Smartphones

February 19, 2026

My oldest son is 11. He'll be starting high school in September, and my wife and I want a way of keeping in touch with him as he'll be making his own way to school. The default here would be to get him a phone, but like most 11-year-old boys, he's an idiot and we don't trust him with one. So, as a test we've lent him an old phone of mine to see if he can be trusted with one under some limitations: The phone never leaves the kitchen. He only gets an hour of screen time a day between 09:00 and 19...

Step Aside, Phone: Week 1

February 15, 2026

OK, so here we are at the end of the first week of Step Aside, Phone. Quick re-cap from last week - my average phone and tablet usage combined was approximately 4 hours per day (2.5hrs on phone, and 1.5hr on tablet). That's high! Hopefully this week was better? Tablet This one is easy - my screen time on my tablet has been zero, as I turned it off last week, and haven't turned it back on again. Instead I've been either reading RSS feeds quickly on my phone before bed, or reading a book on my Kin...

I Didn't Fail

February 15, 2026

A good friend of mine at work was recently promoted to the same level as I was before I stepped down. I'm happy for him, as he's a good friend and it's nice to see people achieve their goals. However, a day or so after he told me the news, I found myself feeling jealous. After taking some time to think through my feelings, I think it's all ego. You see, he will now be one of only 2 people in our department at that level. He will also get his own office (my old office, actually), and likely an as...

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