@ Adrian Tritschler · Tuesday, Nov 11, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at Nov 11, 2025 · Image Credit
4.98km / 17:42 / 49m / 7.0°C
Surprisingly little rain in the air, but huge pools flooding all the paths everywhere I went. Ideal weather for sandals, except it was only 8°C … at least it was only 20 minutes of soaking wet 8°C. I took the short route, the North Road bike path still sucks
Heavy intensity rain, 8°C, Feels like 7°C, Humidity 92%, Wind 1m/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.