Kev Quirk

Tag: meta

I've Moved to Pure Blog!

Just a quick post to mention that I've now migrated this site to Pure Blog. Hopefully everything works...

blogging, meta

How You Read My Content (The Answers)

Two days ago I published a simple survey asking how you read the content I put out on this site. Here's the results of that survey.

Meta

How Do You Read My Content?

I'm trying to get an idea on how people consume the waffle I put out, it should only take 5 seconds to respond, and I'd be very grateful.

Meta

Adding Comments to My Jekyll Site

I've been working on adding support for comments over the last few months. On a static site, that's hard, but it's finally done.

Meta, Blogging, Jekyll

Giving My Jekyll Site a CDN Front End

I've managed to get my Jekyll based site working behind Bunny CDN, while maintaining my .htaccess redirects. Here's how I did it...

Meta, Technology, Web, Jekyll

Switching from Buttondown to Sendy

I've spent some time this afternoon switching my email subscription system from the fantastic Buttondown, to a self-hosted Sendy instance.

Meta

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? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Meta, Blogging, Jekyll

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.

Meta

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.

"Meta"

💭 What Others Said...

I've been reading a lot about blog interactions, community echos, and manual Webmentions recently. So I decided to jump on the bandwagon and roll my own.

"Meta", "Blogging"

A New Lick of Paint

So I've been playing around with a new design for this site for a couple of weeks now, and it's finally to the point where I think it's good to go live.

"Meta", "Web"

Doing a Jack Baty...?

I've been thinking about a changing some stuff up around here lately, but I'm on the fence as to what to do. You could say I'm doing a Jack Baty...

"Meta", "Web", "Kirby"

RSS Feed Changes

You've probably seen a load of unread RSS items from my feed, sorry about that. Here's why...

"Meta"

Blog Questions Challenge

I saw a post from Brandon about a blog questions challenge doing the rounds on Bearblog and figured, even though I'm not on Bearblog, I'd do my own. 🙃

"Blogging", "Meta"

A Year With Kirby CMS

It’s been a year since I migrated this site to Kirby CMS, let’s talk about how that’s gone…

"Meta", "Opinion", "Kirby"

Why Have a Personal Site Instead of Social Media?

I was posting my usual waffle over on Fosstodon yesterday, and someone asked a question about having a personal site vs just using social media. So I naturally decided to write a post on my personal site about it.

"Meta", "Opinion"

Less Blogging About Blogging

Brandon talks about his desire to write less about blogging. I'm not sure I agree though.

"Link", "Meta"

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"

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"

Adding a Watch Wearing Log to This Site

Everyone knows I'm a watch geek, but I've now taken it one step further and added a watch wearing log to this site.

"Meta", "Watches"