@ Adrian Tritschler · Monday, Dec 22, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at Dec 22, 2025 · Image Credit
11.79km / 24:55 / 55m / 24.0°C
This afternoon I was perusing the maps in wandrer and saw that I’d never explored the ends of two interestingly symmetric dead end streets about half a suburb away … so off I went, the hard part was crossing Dandenong road, then off down industrial back streets and confirmed for myself that yes, they were indeed both dead-ends, with no sign of a helpful footpath or laneway off the end. Oh well, it keeps things interesting
Scattered clouds, 20°C, Feels like 19°C, Humidity 51%, Wind 5m/s from SSW - 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.
