@ Adrian Tritschler · Wednesday, Sep 1, 2021 · 1 minute read · Update at Sep 1, 2021 ·
28.48km / 1:52:25 / 192m / 23.8°C
Wattle day, first day of spring, September 1. Clear blue sky and warm, first outing in a summer-weight jersey for a few months. Longish ride to clear the head, or as longish as fits comfortably in the working afternoon and with the interminably extended lockdown6. So much for that Audax ride on the 11th, so much for that tassie visit in school holidays.
Overcast clouds, 23°C, Feels like 23°C, Humidity 31%, Wind 5m/s from NNW - 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.
