@ Adrian Tritschler · Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at Nov 12, 2025 · Image Credit
9.34km / 29:14 / 67m / 19.0°C
Not the best day of work, so it was a thoroughly well enjoyed break for a half hour spin around to the creek and back. Checked on the – lack of – obvious progress in the Oakleigh protected bike lanes, there seems to be roadworks going on at the intersection of Atherton and Atkinson, but still nothing looks to be finished. Then Scotchmans Creek Trail, down to East Malvern Station, back up through Murrumbeena and home along the Djerring Trail. Then back to work
Broken clouds, 17°C, Feels like 17°C, Humidity 59%, Wind 0m/s from WSW - 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.
