@ Adrian Tritschler · Monday, Nov 10, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at Nov 10, 2025 · Image Credit
8.17km / 26:04 / 52m / 12.0°C
Half way to work and Ruth caught up, so company and conversation for the second half of the ride in. Usual topics, including the glacial speed of development of any new bicycle infrastructure leading to the uni, the problem of multiple authorities when building or maintaining bike paths or lanes, where the current focus appears to be
Overcast clouds, 12°C, Feels like 11°C, Humidity 74%, Wind 2m/s from WNW - 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.