Kev Quirk

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Riding to work this morning and my iPhone fell out of its carrier, then a fucking van ran over it! It's a bit damaged...

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This is how utterly shit #AppleIntelligence is...I received an email yesterday in response to my "iOS Mail Is Shite" post and the email started with "Kev - I cannot agree with you more."

But Apple "Intelligence" summarised the email as "Disagrees with Kev; uses Mutt for blog email."

What an utter shit show.

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And the new steed is home!

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How did this petulant fucking moron get voted in??

https://kottke.org/25/02/trump-ejects-zelenskyy-from-white-house

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I'm getting really bored of the constant "block #YouTube ads" battle. Like it or not, it's the streaming service I spend, by far, the most time on.

Thinking about admitting defeat and just paying for Premium.

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Having to put another fish to sleep is a really shitty way to start a Monday.

This is the problem with the #fishkeeping hobby - when you setup a tank and stock it with a load of babies, they all grow up together, but they all grow old together too. So you end up losing them one after another.

I think I might hang up my buckets once these all pass.

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When you're thinking about getting a motorbike and decide to go around a few showrooms to narrow down your shortlist, you should definitely NOT spend £22k on a new bike.

No, that's a stupid thing to do and very irresponsible. I'd never do such a silly thing. 🫣

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Tell me you're working too many hours without telling me you're working too many hours...

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Walking the dogs with the youngest...

Him: Daaaaaad, I've been reading a book in school about how babies are born.

Me (inner monologue): Shit shit shit shit shit shit.

Him: Did you know that a baby comes out of a ladies private parts and the hole is this big (holds fingers up in a very small circle). But a baby is this big (holds hands up about 2 feet apart).

Me: Yep. That's pretty much it, mate.

Him: .........................................I'm glad I'm not a girl.

Me: 😂😂😂😂😂

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Shouting from the other end of the house:

Me: [youngest kid's name], GUESS WHAT???

Him: WHAT?

Me: YOU SMELL! 😂😂

Him (very calmly): You're boring...

And so the student becomes the master. You win this round, young'n.

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Fantastic post by Manu on what identity is and that we can't be identified in broad strokes.

https://manuelmoreale.com/identity

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For some reason, I find this site hilarious (probably needs to be done on desktop).

https://pointerpointer.com/

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Do people find “month in review” posts interesting? I’ve thought about doing them myself, but very rarely read them so haven’t bothered.

Although when I do read them, they’re usually quite interesting…

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Last Friday I posted about taking a break from Mastodon and since then I've checked Masto maybe 3 time and only really looked at my notifications.

It's actually been very pleasant. No politics, no moaning, no negativity, and no drama. I checked the timeline just now and all 4 of those things came flooding in.

Think I'm going to continue just checking my notifications. It's nice.

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Right then, off to the garage...

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Today it's monster trucks.

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Just sitting down with the kids to watch The NeverEnding Story and this happened...

Me: this was released the year I was born, so it's the same age as me, boys.

Oldest: So it's old fashioned?

Me: Yep

Oldest: So why is there colour then?

😂😂😂 why do kids troll us so much??

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One of my favourite #Kirby plugins seems to be abandoned. The default Kirby textarea editor is fine, but this adds some nice quality of life things that I really enjoy.

I wish I had the skills to maintain something like this. I'd love to help. 😞

https://github.com/fabianmichael/kirby-markdown-field

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I've been thinking about getting an activity tracker to, you know, track my activities. But I don't want to wear that, plus a watch. Then I remembered I have an old Garmin (from 2017) in the drawer. Still working great, so I'll use that instead. 🙃