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Kev Quirk
Personal blog · kevq.ukwebdesign
Kev Quirk's personal blog at kevq.uk covers web and design. Since 2018, 39 different Hacker News readers have linked it 135 times, most often “What’s in a Font? Researching Website Typography”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Kev Quirk's personal blog, mostly on tech, with some fish keeping, motorbikes and digital art. HN readers cite his posts on Zoho vs Gmail, losing data on a consumer NAS, and a reply to a CSS-free web essay.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- A rebuttal to a post about a web without CSS or JavaScript; one commenter says to be sure to read it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome to Kev Quirk's little corner of the internet. Here you can find out lots of information about me, how to contact me and, of course, my blog.
Most-linked posts?
- What’s in a Font? Researching Website Typography3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-06
- How Does Mastodon Work?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-04
- Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-28
- Why Having a Full Post RSS Feed Is a Good Idea3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-04
- I Nearly Lost All of My Data3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-19
- Removing Support for the IndieWeb2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-15
- Privacy vs. “I Have Nothing to Hide”2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-22
- Reasons Why Zoho Mail Is Better Than Gmail2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-14
- How to Add CSS Dark Mode to a Website2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-03
- How Browser Fingerprinting Works2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-25
What Hacker News says?
You are not wrong on some of your comments...which is why some time ago i set up a single-person account (with my own test domain) with zoho...to see if they're a viable replacement. I had used (and abandoned) a free zoho account like almost 10 year ago...but then read the following post, which re-interested me in zoho (though now via a paid account): https://kevq.uk/reasons-why-zoho-mail-is-better-than-gmail/ So fa…
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on “Google users locked out after 15 years' use”Submitted Please Add RSS Support to Your Site as a story · 904 points
HN discussionhttps://kevq.uk Personal blog that focuses on tech mostly. Also has some fish keeping, motorbikes and recently (since being isolated) digital artwork.
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea? as a story · 442 points
HN discussionlooks like he added a link to his RSS ( https://kevq.uk/feed ) at the end of the article, but like you, my RSS reader was unable to locate it naturally.
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on “Please Add RSS Support to Your Site”Submitted How Does Mastodon Work? as a story · 389 points
HN discussionSome of my favourite blogs are listed on my blogroll - https://kevq.uk/blogroll
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead as a story · 341 points
HN discussionEvery one on this list is pretty good. - https://kevq.uk/blogroll/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Why I'm Ditching Android as a story · 269 points
HN discussionSimple.css is a well done classless 'framework'. I stumbled on it a while back and started using it and thought this can be my go-to styles for tit-bits of websites that I do for landing pages, family websites etc. However, this is pretty opinionated (including some animations) and I had to abandon it. But I remained inspired by its simplicity and forked my own[1] broke it down. I broke it down to the most basic, bu…
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on “Simple.css – A classless CSS framework”Submitted I Nearly Lost All of My Data as a story · 233 points
HN discussionMastodon provides you with a 'federated timeline'. Basically your feed is a list of all posts the instance your account is on knows about, based on what the instance owners have configured. So you see all the posts directly from users in your instance, made on your instance, and also posts from other users in your subset of the fediverse, determined by what other instances your instance peers with. You can interact…
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on “Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse”Submitted Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News as a story · 118 points
HN discussionOn the other hand maybe buying a consumer NAS can give you a false sense of security: https://kevq.uk/i-nearly-lost-all-of-my-data/
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on “FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying”Submitted Is DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckDone? as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSame here, i have little to no use for any of google's other services...i just need solid email service with my custom domain name. My early tests with zoho show it to be pretty good. Also, i follow @kevq , and he seems to be happy with zoho: https://kevq.uk/reasons-why-zoho-mail-is-better-than-gmail/ Cheers!
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on “G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1, 2022”Submitted I replied to a sponsored content email as a story · 51 points
HN discussionFor me it boils down to a number of reasons: 1) It’s simple to use and allows me to focus on content. 2) It’s widely supported with a rich community. 3) It just works. The whole security issues piece is a misnomer IMO. Wordpress has had security vulnerabilities, but the reputation of “Wordpress is easy to hack” is down to poor quality admins, rather than poor quality WP code a lot of the time. I wrote about this top…
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on “Ask HN: Why do you still use Wordpress in 2021?”Submitted Synology vs. Nextcloud – Which Is Better for a Home Server? as a story · 40 points
HN discussionAlso, be sure to read Kev Quirk's rebuttal [1]. [1]: https://kevq.uk/reality-without-css-javascript
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on “A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist”Submitted Email Is Not Broken as a story · 33 points
HN discussionI intend to add some best practices for optimising a site over time. I only set this up a couple of days ago. :-) However, I don't think it will ever be available to "average" people (those who spin up a free WP theme that know little to nothing about web design) mainly because many of them will have very little inclination to learn this stuff. I do have https://mylight.website which takes people through creating a…
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on “The 512KB Club”Submitted Privacy vs. “I Have Nothing to Hide” as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Domain Squatters Are the Scum of the Earth as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Broke My MacBook User Profile by Deleting a Single Folder as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Centralisation and Mastodon as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Shouldn't Use Facebook as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Browser Fingerprinting Works as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s the Alternative to Firefox? as a story · 9 points
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