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We’ve all been there. You’re browsing through the Hugo themes and find one that you really like. It meets all your criteria, except for that one small thing. So, what are your options?

At work, we have to SSH into an ubuntu box in order to run queries. Since this box has no GUI, all work must be done through command line and SQL*Plus. Sadly, pasting multi-line queries into SQL*Plus is a no-go. And copying query results, if they’re more than a few dozen lines, isn’t much better. So, after trial and error, here’s my solution:

In my opinion, Hugo’s current quick start is ample. It does just what the name says, gets you started you quickly. Still, there have many requests on the forums for a tutorial that dives deeper than the quick start, and gets into some templating basics. The thing you’re reading is my go at that. Starting from scratch, we’ll build a Hugo blog.

Once in a blue moon, we play this game. It usually goes by the name “one bad thing, one good thing”. The “bad” thing is more of a constructive criticism. The idea is to give the other person something they can realistically work on. Each person gets a chance in the hot-seat, while the others take turns offering words.

Inspired by this discussion, I wanted the ability to style a markdown table with Bootstrap table classes. In the past, I’ve accomplished this by defining the table in a data file, then building it with a shortcode.