Kev Quirk

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Fighting Bots

Manu talks about the ongoing issues with AI scraping the web and what are options are, as site owners, to prevent it.

Link

Things That Make Me Happy

I saw this post from Dave Rupert asking what makes people happy. I answered it quickly, but figured it would be good to share more.

Fun

On This Site & Financial Stability

I've been thinking about the future of this site recently, and I wanted to pen down some of the thoughts that have been rattling around my grey matter.

Meta

Building a Home Gym

I haven't done a FatBoy update in a little while, so I decided to do a double-whammy and talk about how I've been getting on, along with my new little home gym.

FatBoy, HomeLife

Human or Not?

Chat with someone for two minutes, and try to figure out if it was a fellow human or an AI bot. Think you can tell the difference?

Link

Improving My Watch Log

I recently wrote about adding a watch wearing log to this site. I've been working away on improving it, and I think it's pretty great.

Meta, Watches

It's All Very Narcissistic, Right?

So yesterday I published a post about logging which watches I wear. It's been a fun little coding challenge for me, and I'm proud of myself. But there's always someone who has to piss on your parade...

Opinion

Hanns and Rudolf

Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz

Books

My Computing History

I read a post from Robb Knight recently about his computing origin story. It was an interesting post, so I thought I'd add my own computing history to the mix.

Technology

The Long Way Home

You know what? After a long day in the office, sometimes it's nice to take the long way home.

HomeLife

Mastodon Is DDoSing Me

Whenever I, or someone else, posts a link to this blog on Mastodon, it DDoS's me and brings the site down for a couple minutes.

Meta, Web