@ Adrian Tritschler · Friday, Aug 2, 2024 · 1 minute read · Update at Aug 2, 2024 · Image Credit
13.83km / 40:14 / 69m / 13.0°C
Leaving work on a Friday afternoon, time for a slightly longer commute. Off down the Scotchmans Creek Trail to East Malvern then up through the Urban forest to Murrumbeena. All the wattle trees are flowering, seems to be the first time I’ve really noticed them this year. Also seemed a long time since I’ve ridden down here, I guess the wet days have had me on the shorter commutes
Overcast clouds, 14°C, Feels like 13°C, Humidity 56%, Wind 4m/s from N - 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.