thomas-sittig.com
A personal site for writing, motorcycle trips and travel — rebuilt to be quieter than it used to be.
Genesis
It started as a blog, went through the usual sequence of rebuilds, and has now settled into something deliberately plain: text you can read, pictures you can look at, and nothing that interrupts either of those to ask you a question first.
Twenty-odd years of having opinions in public had accumulated across several platforms and one abandoned CMS. This is where the surviving material lives.
Features
- Writing — long-form pieces and short observations, published when ready rather than on a schedule.
- Journal entries, filed inside the writing, each carrying a verdict for how far the outcome drifted from the original plan. There are four verdict levels. The mildest is “slight detour”.
- Rides — motorcycle trip reports, mostly running north–south through Europe, written up once the memory is sharp and the saddle soreness isn’t.
- Travel — notes written after the fact, when it’s clear which parts actually mattered.
- Photos, grouped into sets rather than dumped in a stream.
- Projects — this section, for the things built when nobody is paying for them.
- A feed, for anyone who still keeps a reader. Some of us do.
Who it’s for
Mostly nobody in particular, which is the freedom of a personal site. In practice: people who found a piece through a search, people deciding whether to work with me, and me, looking up what I thought about something in 2011.
Where it stands
Active, and permanently unfinished. A personal site is never done, only abandoned, and I haven’t abandoned this one yet. Every rebuild has removed more than it added, which feels like progress even when it is mostly just deletion.