@ Adrian Tritschler · Thursday, Jan 23, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at Jan 23, 2025 · Image Credit
5.27km / 21:23 / 32m / 30.0°C
After the long drive up from Melbourne and setting up camp, time to hop on the bike for half an hour meandering around time to stretch the legs and get back in the feel of the annual migration. Some back streets, a bit of the rail-trail, back along the river and a beer at the brewery – definitely Bright in the summer
Overcast clouds, 28°C, Feels like 27°C, Humidity 33%, Wind 2m/s from NW - 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.