@ Adrian Tritschler · Friday, May 30, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at May 30, 2025 · Image Credit
7.76km / 25:46 / 51m / 11.0°C
Cool and damp, off down the Djerring trail to Clayton – the old Amcor factory still being demolished from the inside out. A TV leaned against a dead tree besides the path, oddly a long way from the nearest road where ewaste is normally dumped. Up through Clayton past the noise and smells of the Friday morning bin collection trucks, then in to campus and a coffee on the way to the office
Overcast clouds, 12°C, Feels like 11°C, Humidity 85%, Wind 1m/s from NE - 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.