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.

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.

I’ve posted earlier in this series my thoughts and experiences of migrating a Wordpress blog over to Hugo. So far I have not been too favourable although the majority of that is down to the muscle-memory invested in having a browser-based CMS publishing platform and the many conveniences that provides you.

One of the major teething issues I was having was with the literal publishing process of new content. For a brand new site - it’s pretty simple, you create your output and then just SFTP the whole dang lot up to your webhost.

Update after a few weeks…

It’s worth prefacing this with a short detour as to why I upgraded migrated this blog from Wordpress. I’ve already published some technical and other reasons for it - performance and security mainly - but the subtext to it all was that I wanted to get back in to blogging - and blogging more regularly.

For some reason, I had become convinced - possibly persuaded - that doing this in a static file generator such as Hugo was the way. A fresh start in a new environment without some of the “overhead” of Wordpress would unlock a passion for writing again - and empower me to write regularly.

In 2021, I spent a lot of time (a) working and (b) training for a half-Ironman.

In 2022, I want to turn some of that focus back towards some creative things. I’ve already dusted off my Flickr account¹, I’ve created an “Insta” for more regular photo blogging-y things but to be honest, the main thing I want to have more fun with is video.

I’m not talking TikTok (not yet at least!) but there are many ideas I have for getting more creative with video. I’d like to produce a few short films. I have no idea what that really means. But I’ve had a lot of fun producing the militant cyclist stuff…