@ Adrian Tritschler · Monday, Jan 1, 0001 · 1 minute read · Update at Jan 1, 0001 ·
A brilliant machine — as has been said so many times, “Amiga built it, Commodore stuffed it up” … or maybe stronger words were used.
Sometime back in 1985 a friend of mine convinced me that I should scrape up the money and buy an Amiga, and somehow I managed to get a loan together and buy one. My first box of 3.5" floppy disks cost $95! This was at a time when the IBM PC-XTs were only starting to use 720k floppies, and the 1.4M HD ones needed by the Amiga were as rare as hen’s teeth — and just as expensive.
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
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.
