This is a personal site for friends and family - and antidote to social media.

I (Phil) started this site in 2001 to capture our first major bike ride together. Back then there was no social media or Wordpress type offerings. Instead I made my own, plain html written on a Handspring Visor PDA (as they were called). Text and image files got uploaded via ftp to the server when there was an internet cafe - no mobile data and upload speeds that made images beyond 200kB and fancyful dream.

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Handspring Visor

What has changed? Not all that much. I am not a big fan of coorporate solutions, so this page uses free stuff:

• Markdown edited in Vim
• A git repo to push updates to the server
• A post-update git-hook to build the site
  • Pandoc to convert to html
  • Python script to create formatting
  • CSS for appearance

This way the site can be edited offline and updated from any internet connected device. In this case an Android phone with the Termux terminal. I find this way of working rather beautiful (and keeps me entirely in control - which is probably what this is really all about).

For example, the following simple markdown text renders as follows:

  # Headline
 
  [](../Bike/01_World_bike_tour/)%box

renders as:

Headline

World bike tour

2001–2002

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The folder structure becomes the menu structure

A generic version is available as HyperMarkdown on GitHub