Kev Quirk

I 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 fairly good looking, lightweight site from start to finish. I intend to spend some time sprucing it up soon though, then I will likely integrate the two sites somehow. WRT WordPress, my personal website is WordPress and comes in at ~350KB (https://kevq.uk) so just because something is running WordPress, doesn't mean it can't be lightweight.

Same 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!

Mastodon 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 with users from other instances by referencing their handle and instance. So instead of @bob it would be more like @bob@xyz where xyz is the instance. You can follow a user from a different instance. Oddly, even though you can filter your federated timeline to your local instance, you cannot filter it to any other specific instance - for that you would need to create an account on that instance and view its local timeline. So basically it gives you a broader audience and user community than just your specific instance. Some useful links that explain it further: https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/7/15183128/mastodon-open-source-twitte… https://kevq.uk/how-does-mastodon-work/ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/network/

Also, be sure to read Kev Quirk's rebuttal [1]. [1]: https://kevq.uk/reality-without-css-javascript

Every one on this list is pretty good. - https://kevq.uk/blogroll/

On 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/

looks 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.

Simple.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, but then can be built on top of it -- progressively get a website "designed" far enough but not further. If you are into these simple classes, check out Drop-in Minimal CSS[2] and choose the one that fits your need. Simple.css is from an interesting guy, Kev Quirk[3], whose 512kb[4] website was on Hackernews a while back (don't recollect if it was a story or a comment). Hi Kev, if you are around. If you are spinning up a simple website with classless styles, perhaps it is a good idea to add a print styles and I like Gutenberg[5] for that. 1. https://oinam.github.io/oinam-jekyll/ 2. https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/ 3. https://kevq.uk/about/ 4. https://512kb.club 5. https://github.com/BafS/Gutenberg