In the post on bootstrap style tables in Hugo I wanted to show the actual shortcodes you needed to create in your templates.

But in some cases, Hugo was helpfully rendering the shortcode as the actual output, rather than the raw code.

(This is likely because I have unsafe set to true for historic reasons.)

You can create code blocks using backticks, e.g.,

but if you try and include HTML (or similar), then the tags themselves just disappear:

Tables in Markdown are a bit of an anomaly that requires a mish-mash of hypens and pipes. You can get the basics from this article at markdownguide. By default, though, how these then render will depend on your template (and the configured CSS) but it’s reasonable to say there’s a chance the tables will look a bit shit.

What if we could have swanky looking tables à la bootstrap? Yep, but what if you don’t actually use bootstrap in your theme? You could just use it, but this is almost certainly going to interfere with at least some of your other styling. So what if you could have bootstrap style tables but without actually having bootstrap? Well, yep, that’s doable in two-ish, steps.

Here’s a summary of testing and whatnot. Be sure to read the intro blog in this series for this make any sense whatsoever.

Pic	Flavour	Date Tried	Heat Scale	Overview	Link
	Jiajan	09/03/2022	7/10	8/10 - Excellent!	Review
	Stew	10/03/2022	7.5/10	8/10 - really good, nice heat, bit of lip-tingle.	Review
	Kimchi	11/03/2022	7.5/10	6/10 - very edible, but forgettable	Review
	Cheese	14/03/2022	6.5/10	6/10 - doable, but slightly dodgy smell	Review
	Carbonara	15/03/2022	5/10	5/10 - nothing wrong, just a bit bored now.	Review
	2x spicy	29/03/2022	8/10	6/10	Review
	Light	04/04/2022	5/10	6/10	Review

I have no idea how the scoring is going to work; chances are it will have to change over time.

And now for something completely different.

Long story short, I bought the mixed pack of Samyang Korean ramen noodles from Amazon and I’m planning to document my experience of trying them.

Background

I like spicy food. I am a solid vindaloo in the curry house; but will always try hotter (or milder) as may be available. My tastes have definitely mellowed as I’ve got older and nowadays I definitely prefer things slightly milder than my younger years, but I will still not shy away from a challenge - and my ‘mild’ is still considerably hotter than others I know.THis isn’t some macho flex; it’s just the way it is; I like hot food.

If you find yourself in the unexpected position of needing to add decals to your bike wheels, this is the quick and easy way to do it…

Respect.

(Deja vu?)

If you find yourself in the unexpected position of needing to remove the stickers or decals off your bike wheels, this is the quick and easy way to do it…

Respect.

I’ve briefly covered thoughts around adding a comment system in to this blog since it was migrated to Hugo.

I won’t rehash the decision making process - but fundamentally I wasn’t going to go with Disqus and wanted a simpler solution. There are various options out there and tl;dr I ended up choosing HashOver, mostly for the following reasons:

1. It appeared to be reasonably simple to stand it up completely external to the ‘main’ site, i.e. in a sub-domain
2. It runs on PHP/MySQL which is already available on my host. Other commenting systems needed different stacks which I don’t have access to without switching.

Incidentally, HashOver supports other persistence options such as SQLite and even XML which if you wanted to be completely serverless which could be interesting; but as it happens this comment migration process would likely have been a fair whack harder.

A walk-through of the frustrations of operating with modern finance operations like Starling Bank. To be clear - it will never be time for crypto…

I have blogged in the past at the frustrations of trying to deal with large organisations. Several years ago, I was moaning about how much I hate ’no-reply’ from addresses in comms with BA as the example. And before that, I talked about what happens when you let your systems run your comms, like TripAdvisor does.

Here’s a quick tip to help you find something you may have tweeted in the past. Provided you can remember a word or two about it, then chances are you’ll be able to find it with Twitter’s advanced search.

Simply head to https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en which will pop open a nifty form which is pretty self-explanatory:

but that form scrolls, allowing you to target specific accounts:

Robert’s your father’s brother. Magic.

My heart is broken. x RIP Frankie, 2007-2022 💔 The best hound ever.