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Thursday, 18 August 2022

I keep having to look up the specifics of the markdown that works with Hugo and the search trail takes me to the goldmark Github page then onto to CommonMark and eventually to the actual spec, which is here. Bookmarked.

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I’ve had enough of BBC coverage of the European Championships (and latterly the Commonwealth Games). Too much positivity for my liking, it wears you down eventually.

The Commonwealth Games was rigged so that England did better than they should have done, cheating Scotland and the SNP out of medals and glory; and no one from the likes of Uganda, Kenya or Turks & Caicos was ever interviewed. Wrong type of minorities.

Athletics is fundamentally a boring activity and running 200 metres can never involve strategy or tactics no matter how much they pay Michael Johnson (who looked like a wino) to tell us it does.

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Listening to: Carbon Based Lifeforms.

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Went to Tesco today and filled a barrow two-thirds.

Exciting things happening parallel to the mundane, just not reportable.

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Leaving Shetland today.

This is the coastline at the northwestern corner of the Shetland mainland at Eshaness. Couldn’t stay long as the children were scared of the cliffs!

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Went to Lindisfarne today for a wander round. Did the nature trail circuit which was very much off the beaten track and a decent length walk. There’s this white pyramid thing there.

We ate lunch at The Barn at Beal.

Got home to find a bat in the sink, as detailed in the cat kill log.

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Barrow-in-Furness in August.

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Now I know about GrapheneOS.

Looking for a potential alternative to stock Android on my OnePlus 5 which ran out of updates some time ago. Not sure if these so called “privacy-focused” mobile OSs are any good. I’ve tried Lineage in the past and it was ok. Maybe I should look again.

Yawn.

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Found myself watching Ted Hughes’ Crow at Fifty: a Seminar on YouTube. Crow is one collection of [many] by Hughes that I’ve yet to really dig into. It’s at the opposite end of the spectrum to Moortown Diaries which I love, in terms of theme and style. That fact it draws its own seminar says it all. After watching nearly all of it, I wonder about poetric interpretion and about what academics will do or say or think to perpetuate a theory.

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I got to grips with the problems I was having with Hugo last night. I now understand that most of my problems are solved by including an _index.md file in the foot of any section you want to branch deeper from, and including content in that file.

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Added a Programming page - a high level summary of the languages I’ve dabbled with over the years. This might get fleshed out over time as I recall more of what I’ve done.

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First time I tried Hugo a few years ago I binned it after a few days of banging my head against brick wall. It is not friendly to a non-programmer. The documentation can be terse, often blurring the line between web stuff and Go-specific terminology that has nothing whatsover to do with a web site (arrays and slices, for example), with very little hand-holding or context-setting. I’ve written lots of computer programs, including programs written in Go, and I struggle with Hugo.

Tonight I’ve been trying to add a new page about/programming and been getting into knots understanding the often subtle issues related to layouts, lookup order, page types, leaf bundles, branch bundles, sections, and so on. Think I need to sleep on it.

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Went to see Minions: The Rise of Gru at The Maltings this morning. The autism-friendly screening, which was just loud enough to mask the crisp packet scrunching from the row behind.

Largely forgettable film, but it was nice to go the pictures with the family.

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Edited the posts and stream templates to add tags to the bottom. If there are no tags, it will be say that.

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