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I realize that I never did a post on markata 0.8.0, so here it is. 0.8.0 was released on Jan 2, 2024, just over a year ago at this point. This was the release that we got pydantic support, and multi feeds. [1] Pydantic Support Was kinda big # [2] Markata is leaning on pydantic for configuration and Post models. These models are filled with validators such that you can give it an empty markdown post and it will figure out some pretty sane default values for the frontmatter. From there you can progressively enhance your post with more information like title, date, tags, slug, description. validators are awesome!! for instance I don’t set the description on many of my posts by hand, I let the auto_description grab the first bit of text from the post most of the time. Multi Feeds # [3] Markata==0.8.1 brought multiple feeds into the mix, and started to take place of RSS and sitemap. Feeds are a list of posts that are configured with a slug, filter, sort, reverse, description, and ...

A side effect of Markata DidYouMean [1] is that we are able to implement some rudimentary search based on slug, title, tags, and description. [2] I made a video of the early work on using this side effect to search for content on markata.dev. Replay markata-search-1.mp4 [3] This was first implemented to solve 404 pages giving users a way to try to find the page that they tried to access. But it turned out to be a decent way to search through the docs. References: [1]: /markata-didyoumean/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/50cfa8dc-9d46-4f02-877b-688fa5510a83.png [3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/fd677374-5ef1-41c7-8845-6de0e10f224b.mp4

Coming in Markata 0.9.1 is far better documentation. i.e. Documentation that actually exists for everything. As part of poking around I realized that I often go to look up the docs for a plugin and forget that the path is /markta/plugins/feeds, sometimes I might try /markata/feeds or /plugins/feeds.py or /feeds or I might even forget the plugin name exactly and try something like feed and get a 404. So I added a didyoumean plugin to markata that takes care of this. [1] I made a quick recording of this early feature, pay close attention to the url as it automatically updates to the correct page. markata-didyoumean.mp4 [2] Happy Path # [3] direct forward If you have one post called /markata/plugins/feeds, and it is the only post called feeds, any combination of /markata/feeds or /plugins/feeds or /feeds will all automatically redirect with an html [4] page (not a server 3xx) to the /markata/plugins/feeds post. Here is the snippet that does the redirect. <div class="container ...

Here are a list of some cold builds from my site. I’ve ran this site for a long time and would like to have some references to go back to, and wish I had kept a few profiles of cold builds laying around to compare with. The time is now lets keep some cold build links around for reference. [1] 01/27/2025 # [2] - https://ec314b08.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 429s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 has md_video open cache on every post issue - https://27f117fd.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 112s- markata==0.9.0.dev5 after fixing md_video issue - https://e6b8f64a.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 16s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 1 post not skipped, this one - https://10b778b4.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 5.65s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 fully hot cache build with no changes References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/cd8f9d96-948a-4e94-aa3d-2c352bb5657b.png [2]: #01272025

Pesos is the act of Publish Elsewhere Syncicate to Own Site. It is an indieweb concept that I recently started applying to my own site. here does it skip again Note See <https://indieweb.org/PESOS> for more information, they have a ton of information about the indieweb In short it is the concept of pulling data from other sites that you use and republishing it to your own site. This gives a single source of information for you, and protection against sites and apis changing or rug pulling. Other people might have a lot more use cases for this, but I already begin a lot of my data right on my site. GitHub stars # [1] I am using the github api to get a list of my stars and then create posts in the github repo for my blog. This allows me to keep track of things I star on GitHub in my own way, and share them out with my rss feeds. [2] References: [1]: #github-stars [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/2380f814-a8cb-45d1-bb5b-538d171933e3.webp

I broke my sick wikilink hover [1] recently in a refactor, today I did some diving in to figure out what happened. Before # [2] As you can see in the screenshot below, the link is in a list of links, and when the hover image pops up it sits behind all of the other text. The z-index of the list-item is supposed to be raised above the others on hover. [3] Manually setting z-index to 20 in the inspector I noticed this message from devtools, “The position: static property prevents z-index from having an effect. Try setting position to something other than static.”, looking back at some of my refactoring I had relative in an old template and it was lost. [4] After # [5] After properly setting position to relative on the list-item, the hover image is raised above the others. [6] References: [1]: /sick-wikilink-hover/ [2]: #before [3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/b3158b49-5c0f-4e52-b3e3-47ba67f5c801.webp [4]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/1c7fb24c-b77d...

I’ve been posting on this site since 2016, when layoffs were rolling through the company I worked for at the time. Starting a personal blog and a pile of side projects felt like one of the best things I could do for my resume, so off I went. This site is built on markata [1], more about that in the /colophon. [2] The old version of this page embedded static SVGs from my Python Markata build. Those files are gone in the markata-go site, so this page now renders the yearly posting history directly from the current content set. Post Contributions All Time Monthly # [3] Contribution Graph Error: Invalid JSON configuration invalid character '%' looking for beginning of object key string Post Contributions in 2026 # [4] Post Contributions in 2025 # [5] Post Contributions in 2024 # [6] Post Contributions in 2023 # [7] 2023 was a very busy year for me and I started slowing down. About mid year I felt like I had a lot that I wanted to get out, but felt like I couldn’t, because I...

A small improvement to my blog today. I was checking out my /now post and noticed that lists have left padding but no discs or numbers. I popped open my tailwind/app.css added these lines and rebuilt. #post-body li { @apply list-disc; } #post-body ol { @apply list-decimal; } And rebuild, which I actually do with ⭐ casey just [1], but showing the command here for clarity. npx tailwindcss --input tailwind/app.css --output static/app-39.css WHY the applies # [2] Before # [3] [4] After # [5] [6] References: [1]: /casey-just/ [2]: #why-the-applies [3]: #before [4]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/5c48f763-5ef6-49b0-9e8f-5167ab046f05.webp [5]: #after [6]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/0cf1c5d9-0948-444f-9a6c-387d22b9db43.webp

Tonight my son and I played rounds, I pulled clips of all the final rounds of each set of rounds. We play hardly any games with guns in them, this is one of the few exceptions, it feels quite whimsical, fun, and strategic, and not at all realistic or first person. The strategy part really brings me back to the fps games I would play with friends in my teens. Round 1 - Orange # [1] I thought I had him on this one. I had this rare power up that allows me to shot through walls. It came down to the very last round and he had too much firepowerfor me. Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. Round 2 - Blue # [2] The final round of round 2 was Super fast. I felt like I nerfed my homing power up by adding fastball to it and it didn’t really home in anymore. What made it so quick, I think he had glass cannon and I laid down two well placed shots. Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. Round 3 - Orange # [3] Round three he got some really good cards, but t...

My son and I are starting a new Minecraft server today called wondercraft. setup # [1] We are running a few mods on this server notably FTB Ultimine for less grindy resource gathering, Sodium for shaders, and Universal Shops. [2] We are runninng on Minecraft 1.20.1, I think this is because it was the latest supported by Universal Shops, its at least one major release old at this point. [3] I grabbed a few shaders, the ones that you see in this post are rethinking voxels. [4] spawn # [5] We initially spawned in a plains biome near an acacia and forest biome. We ended up going straight for the forest, only coming back for some sheep and wheat seeds. [6] Night one Zombie fight # [7] On the first night we had the obligitory zombie fight before getting beds and bases set. [8] Salmon Wrangler # [9] I was the designated food provider. I setup a small wheat farm with about 64 seeds, then went out to hunt down some salmon for the immediate food need. I ended up with about...

I recently built a cli application as a nearly-one-shot-app called nvim-manager [1]. It manages your nvim dotfiles install. [2] Why # [3] How is nvim manager any better # [4] nvim-manager allows you to install pinned versions of your dotfiles, your friends dotfiles, and distros in ~/.config. This allows you to have stable versions that will not break installed while you change things. I’m sure most of us have experienced the pain of installing one plugin, only to update all of your plugins and break something. Or, you have small changes on every machine you use, because they are all just a bit different and now you have big merge conflicts to deal with. All of this aside you can install a distro to get you by, or a known working version of your own dotfiles. So all these versions in ~/.config # [5] ya, thats the magic of NVIM_APPNAME, I can boot up any of these intalled working versions in an instant with NVIM_APPNAME=nvim-waylonwalker-v0.0.1 nvim. I can still cowboy up an...

This page is meant to be simple view into what is happening in my life right now. Inspired by @NowNowNow [1]. and Derek Sivers. - testing md.waylonwalker.com to trigger builds, second time is a charm, testing new deploy - testing build in prod again now is it fast? Last Update 2025-10-29 - Silksong has my attention, it’s great - Working on new features for dropper - Vibe coding [2] sucks - Images will soon be able to be resized and be more efficient over the network. - Trying to branch out and add more than software to the blog. Things like design and 3d printing. --- Last Update 2025-05-22 14:27:47 - Working on [[ninesui]] - Working on [[krayt]] - learning observability with grafana - Fairly happy with markata [3], at the moment, less focus and some small fixes - The blog is fully k8s, love the experience - replacing Google apps with self hosted [4] apps [[replacing-google-search-apps-with-self-hosted-web-apps]] - Doing a second run through hollow knight home row l...

So I made a mistake in an app I am working on and ended up creating thumbnails of thumbnails, and thumbnails of thumbnails of thumbnails… etc. I was able to delete them all, but I wanted to make a one-shot script to do it. [1] One Shot App # [2] I got the idea of the one shot app from Simon Willison [3] and replicated his setup in a chatgpt project [4] Initial Prompt # [5] a mistake was made in my s3 bucket and I've created a bunch of extra files write a script that deletes all files that contain _thumb_thumb ⬢ [devtainer] ❯ aws s3 ls s3://dropper 2024-12-29 14:32:32 16158 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f.webp 2025-01-11 14:20:49 2878 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f_thumb.webp 2025-01-11 14:21:17 2858 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f_thumb_thumb.webp 2025-01-11 14:21:44 2856 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f_thumb_thumb_thumb.webp 2025-01-11 14:21:44 2856 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f_thumb_thumb_thumb_thumb.webp 2024-12-27 10:25:36 2812 06422c09-d0da...

Today we broke through the atmosphere in trailmakers ready for pickup from those back at mission conrol. I haven’t posted a lot of gaming content to by blog, idk why, but I think I am going to start, especially for the ones that are good memories with my son. Today we hit 100% of the required parts required to build the space ship and leave the atmosphere of the planet that the story is set in. Trailmakers is a game where you design and build your own vehicles. The campaign mode standed is a story where you are in a high tech freighter ship that crash lands on a distant planet. Your crew back home can come as far as the planet your on but cannot break through the atmosphere. Your job is to collect all the wreckage and gain all the parts required for a space ship build to take you out of the atmosphere to meet them. [1] [2] There were a couple really heavy salvages to gather up, this one is high in the floating islands and is the cockpit fo the space ship. [3] I thought thi...

Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have 3857 posts published, here are some links to help you get started around here. [1] Feeds # [2] I have quite a few different feeds that you can browse or subscribe to in your rss reader, you can find them on my feeds [3] page. Slash posts # [4] Slash pages [5] are some evergreen pages that I will do my best to keep up to date, they are typically not targeted to a specific moment in time, but designed to be ever living. - Waylon Walker [6] - Husband, dad of two, and hobbyist builder of things on the internet. - Ai [7] - Last updated Jan 2026. - analytics [8] - I've been posting on this site since 2016, when layoffs were rolling through the company I worked for at the time. Starting a personal blog and a pile of… - /carry/ - I try to keep a pretty light every day carry, but it never works out, keyfobs and headphone cases end up causing more bulk than I'd like, but My EDC is no… - /colophon - Colop...

I’m running a two node k3s cluster at home, I thought I could simply mount an nfs share on each worker node, and essentially have the same storage accross all nodes. I’m already learning why this is not reccommended. [1] Slow # [2] I’ve been running some cronjobs and argo workflows on the second node for awhile, these are things that run in the background and I don’t care if they take a bit longer to keep my master node freed up for more critical work. I just started trying to build this site in a cronjob, It was taking 20 minutes to build, and something I noticed was that markata was taking minutes to run glob ( search for files ), normally this happens in a few ms and I never notice this step. [3] I just moved into the master node and the results were wild at ~30x faster Permissions # [4] I have seen where you can get diffent permissions on the nfs share based on user id. Since I’m homelabbing here I only have one user per machine. As you step into enterprise level VMs wi...

Colophon [1] a page that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies Author # [2] [3] All posts on this site are written by Waylon Walker [4], the typical content has changed and evolved over time. I go back and make a few corrections, but for the most part things stay pretty much as they were published originally. see more in Waylon Walker [5] tech # [6] This site is a static site build with my own static site generator markata [7], Thoughts [8] or as Simon Willison calls it a link blog [9] posts are pulled in as a regular posts, all is hosted on cloudflare pages. - markata [7] - Thoughts [8] - cloudflare pages see more about these components in about this site [10] Analytics # [11] I do not track users, I respect the privacy of my readers and do not track their information. I do track analytics [12] on my own writing a post rate. Its more of an interesting history of the site. meta # [13] Some evergreen pages that are more about me ...

I just setup my oldest hardware on the newest hotest server distro ucore-zfs. This is a gateway FX6860 manufactured in 2010. Immutable is the future # [1] My current boot log shows that I first started daily driving bazzite back in August 2024. I’ve been hapily using it since my arch install was plaugued with a crippling display driver error, or something that would lock the display for minutes every 30s or so, it became unusable. I switched because this is what I put my son on and it was working great for him. waylon@razorcrest:~$ journalctl --list-boots IDX BOOT ID FIRST ENTRY LAST ENTRY -19 7e6e154d2609407da24fa12814eadbd7 Thu 2024-08-29 16:15:15 CDT Thu 2024-08-29 17:37:25 CDT Four months later and I am really loving the immutable distro experience. My base system gets fresh reliable updates, and I barely install anything directly on it, a handful of things are snaps or flatpaks from the discover store, but my main workflow is now in distrobox. It has been rock solid reliable...

This is such an improvement to the backend of my website it warrants a blog post of celebration. For far too long I’ve been dealing with a tiny ass edit form on thoughts. I tend to not edit them, and try to get them right in one go. This is kinda the point of a thought, its a quick post meant to be the size of a tweet, but sometimes I’m leaving thoughts on a video or long post and want to make sure I have a good save point, but I just keep the thing in draft and hope I don’t loose if for far too long. Results # [1] Let’s see this change in action!! before # [2] This is the tiny ass form nested deeply in the flow of the feed. When I made it I naively just swapped out the post itself with the edit form, and swapped the post back in after edit. [3] thoughts is built with HTMX [4] btw so all html [5] is rendered in the backend and swapped by htmx client side. after # [6] Now the edit is a full page modal with a nice blurry backdrop effect to the rest of the content. This feels p...