Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
CYCLED study, effect of bike on car roof
Realised a few days ago that for the two weeks of our Tassie holiday we’d likely to be driving most days with the bike on the roof-rack. I wonder if the bluetooth dongle will be close enough to the phone to register, so the Ethica app on the phone will think I’m riding?This has been nagging me on and off for ages and I never got around to fixing it properly – how to correctly get the Org mode table formula to sum the monthly total and year-to-date total of my rainfall recordings. I’d been semi-automatically copy/pasting it for far too many years, but finally got around to reading fully how to reference rows, columns and specify ranges in the TBLFM:
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
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.