Kev Quirk @kev@fosstodon.org

To our Canadian members, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for Poutine!!!

Question: when you’re reading a blog, do you prefer it to have a comments section?

Feel free to elaborate by way of reply. 🙂

A while ago, like 6 months ago, I was talking to a few people on here about trackerball mouses (I think @ChrisWere instigated the conversation).

I since bought myself an ergo mouse, well, 2 actually. I have one at home and one at the office. They’re weird at first, but really good once you get used to them. I haven’t had an aching forearm since!

Thanks Chris, I never would have considered an ergo mouse if it wasn’t for that discussion.

Been doing more work on the Grav theme, I think I’m going to migrate over. The performance is WAY quicker than WordPress, I’ve also made some changes to fix the white space.

You guys are right, it was a little too sparse. Beaty of it is, since I’ve made the theme, I can make any changes I want in the future and I know it a lot better than the WP site.

Where have IPS monitors been all my life? These are SOOOOOO much better than my old cheap ones. Here's a before an after...

New screens are the ones that are turned on.

I really like how the new site is working out. It's very similar to my current WordPress site, but I like the addtional cleanness I've added to the theme.

Also, fonts are self-hosted, so no Google badness!

Which do you prefer, #WordPress or #Grav?

Hmmmm I may be able to make this work. The default Grav theme is pretty flexible and I actually have something that looks similar to my current site already.

Playing around with re-doing my website in Grav. Questions is, do I code a light theme, or dark?

If you're using Pop!_OS and #Ulauncher I made a theme for it.

https://github.com/kevquirk/ulauncher-pop

Well, I'm not on Pop OS, for the most part it's ok, but getting use to the new workflow will take some time I think.

Can anyone recommend any useful #Gnome extensions? I'd particularly like one that shows open windows on the top bar.

It has been a very thoughtful morning. Do you think we're cyborgs?

https://kevq.uk/are-we-cyborgs/

I ended up getting much higher quality Philips screens with FreeSync and a higher refresh rate for the same price. Happy with that. 😁

Been weighing up what to do about new monitors. UHD 32”+ vs ultra wide vs other options. Currently have 2x 22” HD basic plasma monitors.

After looking around lots, I think I’m going to go with 2x 24” HD IPS screens with no bezel. Nice upgrade I think, and still gives me the flexibility of having separate monitors.

So I’m on call this weekend, but I’m thinking about living dangerously and installing Pop on my laptop.