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. 🙃
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!
I hope there's no wind tonight. 😳
We had a birthday party for my youngest today. Instead of the usual soft play, trampoline place, or other such boring stuff, we found a real-life Minecraft themed party in the woods. My oldest dressed up as the creeper to catch all the intrepid explorers.
Needless to say, the kids LOVED it.
I have a tonne of songs in my #Apple Music library, but it feels like it's only shuffling the same hundred or so tracks. #Spotify felt way better in this regard. Is it just me?
We're in the process of getting a new roof put on the house, so the entire thing is covered in scaffolding, which the kids love playing on despite our many warnings.
Yesterday, our oldest asked us if he can have some scaffolding for his birthday. 😂
