@ Adrian Tritschler · Monday, Aug 23, 2021 · 1 minute read · Update at Aug 23, 2021 ·
23.73km / 1:12:55 / 65m / 12.5°C
Down to Sandown racecourse for my second covid-19 vaccination. Cold & windy & a splash of icy rain on the way home
Passed a pair of tree mulching trucks parked on the end of the bike path in Oakleigh, I wonder if they’re about to dump yet more massive piles of woodchips on the metre-high storage dump alongside the path, or if they’re just parked there coincidentally.
Scattered clouds, 14°C, Feels like 13°C, Humidity 61%, Wind 2m/s from SW - by Klimat.app
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.
