@ Adrian Tritschler · Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at Jun 10, 2025 · Image Credit
8.41km / 25:32 / 33m / 12.0°C
Usual commute home along the Scotchmans Creek trail, cold and damp down under the trees. There’s something not 100% about my front brakes – need some readjustment after the hills of the weekend, they start to brake, then seem to hit a stop and don’t fully hold. Time to dig out the manuals and the magnifier to try and peer into the tiny gaps. At least at 1200km since fitting them it should not be worn out pads!
Clear sky, 12°C, Feels like 11°C, Humidity 77%, Wind 2m/s from SSW - 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.
