Notices by Kev Quirk (kev@fosstodon.org)

@adastra1930 A lot of shared hosting providers are cheap, but pretty rubbish in terms of specs, so sites end up slow. Advantage is that they often come with a web control panel, like cPanel or Plesk to help you manage your sites, DBs, domains, email, files etc.

Ionos offer a free Plesk license with their VPS, which are more powerful than shared hosting, but a similar price. I'd recommend them, it's where I host my sites.

https://www.ionos.co.uk/servers/vps

@killyourfm Let me guess, does it start with "well while I'm doing this, I might as well..."

"Quickly switching to the new monitor" has turned into a bit more of a thing. 🤦🏼♂️

@rysiek Yeah, it's fine. But I think the light version of my site is gorgeous. I'd love the dark version to be as nice.

I really hate the dark version of my site. I'm thinking about removing it completely and going light only, but don't want to burn people's retinas at night. I suppose there's always reader mode for them... 🤔

Some thoughts from me about virtue signalling and why I think it's a pointless exercise.
https://kevquirk.com/blog/on-virtue-signalling

I knew SQLite was a cool project, but this great post show how interesting the project is.
https://kevquirk.com/blog/sqlite-facts

Merry Christmas, Fedi. ❤️

@fribbledom oooo this is such a hard one to answer. I've had a draft "if I could only have X watches..." on my blog for months. I've currently got it down to 5, I'm not sure I could go further than that. Maybe 3 at a real push. Definitely not 1 though.

@fribbledom Thanks! 😊

Today's #Wristcheck is the #Vostok Amphibia 100843

https://kevquirk.com/watches#vostok-amphibia-100843

Yes, you read that right, folks. I've decided to flip myself back to team blue and have ditched my new Pixel 8.
https://kevquirk.com/blog/im-back-on-ios

@thibaultmol iMessage. Apple is blue, Android is green. I thought that was a thing everyone would recognise. 🤷♂️

I've tried Nextcloud a few times over the years, but every time I do, I end up coming away thinking it's shit. Here's why...
https://kevquirk.com/blog/why-i-think-nextcloud-is-shit

I have man flu. It's been nice knowing you all. ☠️

Here's a quick and simple way of adding an RSS feed to your @getkirby based blog without using plugins.
https://kevquirk.com/blog/how-to-add-an-rss-feed-to-your-kirby-blog

I've recently been thinking about a switch to the Fairphone 5, but after some research, I'm not sure it's worth it?
https://kevquirk.com/blog/i-ve-been-thinking-about-a-switch-to-the-fairphone-5

In this AMA post, @nigel asks me about the about the federated web and whether I think there's a future for it. It's an interesting question as I'm heavily involved in the federated web by running this blog, as well as Fosstodon and 500.Social.
https://kevquirk.com/blog/ama-do-i-see-a-future-for-the-federated-web

26% is actually a lot higher than I thought. There's obviously more of you non-casers out there!

Two and a half years ago, almost to the day, I bought my Sony WF-1000XM4 ear buds, but now they won't hold a charge, so I'm on the hunt for new ones.
https://kevquirk.com/blog/my-sony-earbuds-are-dead