I have returned with a shortcode that ended up being pretty handy for me.
When using links with Hugo in Markdown I can use [text to display](url) to display the links and it works. It’s clickable, it takes you to the site, nothing wrong with it.
Me being me of course, couldn’t overlook the simple thing that the URL’s don’t take you to another tab. What is this, the 90s?
In my previous post I had an initial tutorial for creating shortcodes. I had made a floating image with some text on the right. I thought I had succeeded, that I won. When I looked at it again the CSS styling and editing was gonna be tricky. I had lost the Markdownification that Hugo makes so my headers and text just looks like plain HTML text. fixing that would’ve taken me a while.
I wanted to start adding some content to my showcase and thought of displaying an image of the repository with some text next to it. Sounds easy enough, right?
The Hugo framework is amazing, really fast and really easy to add content. In other posts, I was ok with slapping the image on it but encountered some limitations with needing to modify the images.
Time, one of our most precious resources and what I believe to be a computers worst enemy.
When I worked at American Express, one of the biggest challenges of a real time payment system is keeping track of all the different time zones and daylight savings times.
I proposed scrapping all of that and moving everything to UTC with Unix Nanoseconds, the best way for computers to keep track of time. I was met with silence in the room and the meeting moved on but I stand by what I said!
I have begun my journey of making a blog for the third time. My previous attempts we’re unsuccessful.
My very first attempt was a simple site done with HTML and CSS. This must’ve been during high school for a class assignment and quickly forgot about it.
When I was moving from Texas to Phoenix, I found my old stash of hard drives and thought, “Hey, I should plug these in and cruise down memory lane!” It was perfect as I had found a great opportunity to procastinate packing.