Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
Tuftes
A work colleague produces many graphs, but in my opinion has much room for improvement. This afternoon while looking at some I thought of Tufte & wondered if a copy of his book wouldn’t go astray. Searched on google for Tufte in the afternoon, read the Wikipedia page & booktopia page on the book. Then in the evening browsing, the same tufte ad in instagram, independent.co.uk, dmarge & SMH. Then this morning, the ad seems everywhere, in one of the cycling news sites and again in theage.The superstitious research data management document with no section 13
A multi-part document where amusingly there’s no section 13, which reminded me of the motel we stayed in last week that had no room 13, just 11, 12, 12A and 14. Nothing superstitious here, that section had been cancelled when it was discovered that the material was covered in two other overlapping sectionsThere’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.