@ Adrian Tritschler · Thursday, Dec 4, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at Dec 4, 2025 · Image Credit
13.09km / 47:53 / 84m / 33.0°C
A break in the work-from-home day to go in to campus and attend the end of year function. The room was a bit loud, the beer a bit warm, but it was good to feel like the end of the year is nigh. Hot and blustery riding and I reckon it was headwinds in both directions in both directions
Overcast clouds, 27°C, Feels like 26°C, Humidity 32%, Wind 4m/s from E - 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.