A beer after work and a slightly later than usual Friday departure, hurrying a bit to get home in time to go back out for a social engagement. Of course that meant that the railway gates would be closed and I’d have to wait for two well-spaced trains to pass, while tapping my foot there’s the half-expected text message, “Where are you?”. Made it home, got changed, made it back out again
The ride itself? Cool and cloudy along the creek under the trees
Overcast clouds, 14°C, Feels like 13°C, Humidity 64%, Wind 1m/s from NW - 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.
