@ Adrian Tritschler · Tuesday, Nov 4, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at Nov 4, 2025 · Image Credit
8.30km / 25:29 / 34m / 15.0°C
No traffic, but completely packed car park as I passed the pub – and a dozen cars illegally parked in the on-road bike lane. Pointless complaining to council, they’ll send someone out in a week or two and “There was no sign of the illegally parked vehicle when we visited the site”
No rain either, but the tunnel under the Monash freeway is still flooded, and nice and silty underneath it so there’s that lovely slick “will I fall over” feeling to riding through the thick brown water
Overcast clouds, 14°C, Feels like 13°C, Humidity 65%, 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.
