@ Adrian Tritschler · Monday, Aug 12, 2024 · 1 minute read · Update at Aug 12, 2024 · Image Credit
8.31km / ??:?? / ??m / 17.0°C
A little later than usual, but the normal route home along the Scotchmans Creek Trail. The warmer weather and late afternoon light has brought out all the tiny insects in swarms, too dark for sunglasses but too many bugs to ride without – and I can never find the changeable lenses to have clear glasses with me! Lovely scents and views of the flowering wattles too
Overcast clouds, 19°C, Feels like 18°C, Humidity 44%, Wind 3m/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.