@ Adrian Tritschler · Friday, Nov 15, 2024 · 1 minute read · Update at Nov 15, 2024 · Image Credit
8.30km / 24:09 / 32m / 23.0°C
Early departure, unexpected visitor is in town and is making their way to our house. Timed it just about right, got the message as I passed through the wetlands that “I am sitting on your back porch”
Creek commute, top-secret birthday present tied to the pizza rack with string and a spare bit of wool found in the office
Scattered clouds, 19°C, Feels like 18°C, Humidity 53%, Wind 2m/s from WSW - by Klimat
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.