@ Adrian Tritschler · Friday, Nov 21, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at Nov 21, 2025 · Image Credit
7.45km / 24:57 / 67m / 13.0°C
Bugger. Called in for a coffee once I got to campus, had one sip and carefully put it down on the bench next to my bike, then managed to fumble my helmet, spun the front wheel and knocked the coffee over – pouring it all over my shoes. What a waste
Other than that, the usual Friday rubbish bin ride through Clayton and up to work
Clear sky, 12°C, Feels like 11°C, Humidity 66%, Wind 2m/s from SE - 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.