@ Adrian Tritschler · Tuesday, Jan 1, 2008 · 1 minute read · Update at Jan 1, 2008 ·
Time to bite the bullet, out with the old looking site and in with the new. Not just the look either, the mess of pages generated in myriad different ways had been annoying me, it was all just too unmaintainable.
Page the first… now to back-fill with the rest.
If there’s anything in particular that someone is looking for, it should return shortly. If you’re in a real hurry, let me know which page you’re missing and I’ll transmogrify it into the new system.
…please stand by…
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.