Blog Archive

/carry/

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:35:40 +0000

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...

I Built A Tmux Session Switcher

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:47:37 +0000

I've been thinking about this for awhile now. For years now, fuzzy pickers and last session have been my go to. They have served me well. I can typically...

/verify

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:36:57 +0000

Inspired by @mollywhite's verify slashpage. This page serves as the system of record for my online identity. The best places to follow me are:

First W In Brotato

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:48:08 +0000

After having brotato and doing a few runs every once in a while I ** beat the most basic balanced run in the game! Wyatt wanted to play tonight and its such...

/top4

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Definitive ranked lists of my top 3 favorites plus an honorable mention.

/yep

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Inspired by @fyrio's yep slashpage, a list of ** things I enjoy, use, recommend, want to know more about, or seek out in no particular order, updated as I...

/nope

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Inspired by @baty's nope slashpage, a list of ** things I don't like, don't care, avoid, overhyped, or won't do in no particular order, updated as I think...

Pm Not Babysitter

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:04:25 +0000

Stop babysitting your agents, treat them like a real team and they will reward you.

Agent Management Is Exhausting

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:38:35 +0000

The state of development in early 2026 is all wrapped around learning how to manage many agents running in parallel. Everyone's trying to figure out the...

Stop Using Boomer Ai

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:12:29 +0000

I was listening to these guys talk about migrating off of boomer ai the other day. Introducing the term boomer ai to describe using chat, copy, paste instead...

Mentions

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:11:15 +0000

I can now just mention people from my markata about blogroll like @simonwillison.net or @swyx.io

What Your Coding Tool Says About You

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:25:41 +0000

Copilot - corporate 9-5er * Claude Code - Agentic Workflows or Bust * Vim/neovim - definite neck beard * VsCode - What else is there?

📝 Git Notes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:05:21 +0000

Waylon Walker's Git Notes

Dont Trust Users Tokens

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:49:43 +0000

User states: Upon picking up an old project and trying to install pip says "cannot find a version to satisfy"

Ai

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:48:43 +0000

Last updated Jan 2026.

Og-Sample

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:19:29 +0000

I'm making an effort to make my og images better yet again, I'm going for that next 10% better. I really like my og images, but there are some title sizes...

2026 Resolutions

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:48:12 +0000

It's that time of year, Coming back to work out of a big break and thinking about big changes.

Developer Vs Artist Ai

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:44:00 +0000

The other day I was watching [thePrimeTimeagen]https://youtube.com/@theprimetimeagen?si=jVcp23FbfQSFZfDc) and he talked about devs loving ai and artists...

The Right Reasons To Run Kubernetes In Your Homelab

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:48:14 +0000

Running kubernetes in your homelab is a fantastic way to learn, explore, express yourself, and run services that you use.

One Year Of Shots

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:44:39 +0000

I've been running my shot scraper api for a year now. It creates og images for my website and thumbnails for my reader using a headless chrome instance.

The Wrong Reasons To Run Kubernetes In Your Homelab

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 09:46:47 +0000

Running kubernetes in your homelab is complex, time consuming, there are almost no docs to help you (homelab focused docs for things you want to install),...

Another Big Cloud Outage Nov 2025

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:39:00 +0000

Today I woke up to finding out that cloudflare hade a widespread outage. My Reader uses tailwind cdn for styles and it was down. Otherwise it was not so...

3d-Printed Corner Clamp

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:13:07 +0000

Getting ready to batch out 18 apple boxes for the local theater. Need to step up my woodworking tool game here quick on a low budget. Whipped this up up and...

Techbrophobic

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:13:33 +0000

I just heard someone drop the this term and it kinda fits a lot of shit on the internet right now. Arguing that its OK to question AI, its OK to like it, its...

Mcat Anything

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:10:02 +0000

I've long looked for a way to cat anything in the terminal. I'm am terminally in the terminal. I manage all of my projects, code, website, notes, files,...

Missing Thoughts

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:23:35 +0000

No one is perfect, this is why we have things like checkpoints or gates in the form of pull requests, linting, type checking, and tests. What happens when...

Rules

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:38:48 +0000

There is no such thing as magic 1. Be ready to roll back live deployments 1. If CI was too fast be suspicious

First 3d Printed Threads

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:19:49 +0000

Working on an upcoming project that requires some threaded screws. Trying to keep a low budget on this one with as much to come off of the printer as I can....

3d Printing Dovetails Experiment

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:34:35 +0000

I hit an issue with 3d printing oversized parts that I have not hit before. I'm working on some jigs for an upcoming woodworking project that will involve a...

python extras are for shipping

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:18:23 +0000

Python has two ways of adding optional dependencies to your projects pyproject.toml file and .

Kraft-Coordinates

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:52:02 +0000

Handy reference for coordinates in the kraft world.

Shots Get An Upgrade To the Main Feed

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:19:57 +0000

Today I updated my jinja templates and feeds to include shots posts in the main feed. These posts will prominently show the image in the feed with a small...

zmk two hand hold down

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:04:36 +0000

I don't know about you, but I don't re-flash my keyboard enough to ever remember where I put the bootloader. Sometimes its the last thing I think about in a...

Why Make a Website in 2025

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:37:23 +0000

Inspired by Jim and Dave

store

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:38:00 +0000

I've been 3d printing for years, and create a lot of my own designs. Many of them are hyper specific to me, but for the ones that I think others might find...

When To Vibe Code

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:44:20 +0000

I enjoyed this post from Theo and think it deserves re-iterated, revisited, and to remind myself of some of these things.

Keycap Cut Away

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 16:03:01 +0000

I was curious how/if my custom keycap design was hitting my switches. So I set out to find out what the fitup inside of this assembly looks like, but not...

Knife Sharpener Small Upgrade

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:17:00 +0000

I've used this knife sharpener that I printed for a few years now. I thought that it was based on the Russian designed TSPROF, but in looking through the...

I'm Out On Agents

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:10:51 +0000

Its the year 2025 and we are only a few years into having 6 months to live before ai takes our jobs, and the big push right now is agents, managing agents. I...

trying forgejo

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:57:42 +0000

WIP

blender donut tutorial 2025

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:29:27 +0000

command palettes are overrated

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 12:37:40 +0000

Command palettes are slow, and overrated, you should treat yourself better. You probably installed VSC*** out of the box and your co-workers see you using...

just fucking use kubernetes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:46:33 +0000

You want to run containers?

markata parallel render

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:05:58 +0000

_._ __/__ __ __ _/_ Recorded: 07:53:56 Samples: 71681 /_//_/// /_\ / //_// / //_'/ // Duration: 92.741 CPU time: 91.748 /_/ v4.5.1 Program: /home/waylon/git/waylonwalker.com/.venv/bin/markata build --pdb 92.740 Markata.run markata/__init__.py:443 `- 92.714 HookCaller.__call__ pluggy/_hooks.py:479 [2 frames hidden] pluggy 92.714 PluginManager._hookexec pluggy/_manager.py:106 |- 38.207 wrapper_register ...

principal-engineer-at-meta

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:22:08 +0000

Jake Bolam principal engineer at Meta, has some of the best career advice for those looking to become principal or just be better at their craft. This video...

csv

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:44:33 +0000

name,age,city Alice,30,New York Bob,25,San Francisco Charlie,35,Chicago Charlie,35,Chicago Charlie,35,Chicago Charlie,35,Chicago Charlie,35,Chicago Charlie,35,Chicago Charlie,35,Chicago name,age,city Alice,30,New York Bob,25,San Francisco Charlie,35,Chicago Charlie,35,Chicago Charlie,35,Chicago Charlie,35,Chicago Charlie,35,Chicago Charlie,35,Chicago Charlie,35,Chicago graph TD A-->B A-->C A-->D D-->E document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() { ...

perfect

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:55:17 +0000

Perfect is a made up word that humans use to describe something that is above average, or works really well for them. The idea of perfection is fleeting, as...

just

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:02:29 +0000

I just never quite understood why the word can send people over the top. I get it when you don't know someone, you don't have history with them, and they...

kraft

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 20:32:39 +0000

Kraft is the family gaming server that we started early 2025.

my nvim spellcheck setup

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 31 May 2025 20:11:59 +0000

I've gone too long without a proper spellcheck setup in nvim. I know it's there, I just don't use it, I don't have the right keybinds, like I do with...

wants

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 27 May 2025 21:01:14 +0000

Inspired by mara.town/wants

Linux Is About Choice

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:37:00 +0000

This Luke Smith video came across my feed Linux, Bitcoin: When Tech Projects Become "Too Popular..." Don't forget the goal.. It's interesting to hear his...

tinyapps

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:31:29 +0000

I'm working on replacing my usage of google inline search apps with real apps, these are ones that I create and host on my own homelab. The first three that...

m9a devlog 1

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 11 May 2025 09:33:44 +0000

It's sad to see textualize.io close the doors, but textual is still alive and maintained as a n open source project. I tried to use it very early, and...

hollow knight home row layout

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 05 May 2025 20:44:36 +0000

I just made it past 100% in my main hollow knight run, so now I will allow myself to get silksong when it comes out. I did this with a little bit of YT...

fix feed descriptions

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 05 May 2025 10:32:04 +0000

Today I fixed a bug in markata that has been occurring for a few months where the description for posts come out as None if coming from cache, the issue was...

portal-platformer-devlog-1

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:56:58 +0000

Here is the current state of my platformer yet to really be named, I want to make something in between hollow knight and portal.

backup distrobox image

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:35:50 +0000

Today I'm upgrading my distrobox, but don't want to end up in a situation where I can't get anything done becauase I work out of my distrobox.

Changing k8s Storage Class - Migration Job

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:57:50 +0000

I'm setting up longhorn in my homelab, and I ran into an issue where I initially setup some pvcs under longhorn, and later realized that to get longhorn to...

homelab drive ids

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:22:07 +0000

Drive Bay 1 ata-ST4000VN008-2DR166_ZDHBZSWZ

THPS 1 Downtown Gaps

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 18:46:01 +0000

Previously thps-1-skate-park-gaps

THPS 1 Skate Park Gaps

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:36:23 +0000

Previously thps-1-mall-gaps Next thps-1-downtown-gaps

Trailmakers Pioneers

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:27:37 +0000

Trailmakers 2.0 Pioneers was released today as an update to trailmakers. It's a brand new campaign mode that requires you to mine resources to get materials...

THPS 1 School Gaps

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:39:28 +0000

On the road to ** achievement I got all School Gaps in THPS1. This is a super fun level, I'll have to admit that I had to look up at least a quarter of them,...

THPS 1 Mall Gaps

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:39:28 +0000

This is one of the most memorable levels for me in THPS1 from when I had originally played it. Surprisingly there aren't as many gaps in it as I thought...

THPS 1 Warehouse Gaps

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:46:03 +0000

On the road to ** achievement I got all Warehouse Gaps in THPS1. This is this classic warehouse level that everyone thinks of when THPS is mentioned. Such a...

fragmention

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:32:43 +0000

This post is still WIP. .....

fixed long standing nvim startup error

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:41:39 +0000

Here's the diff, this is it.

Setting up 4G Backup with Google Fi and Netgear LM1200

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:23:35 +0000

I connected my home network to have 4G bakcup with Google Fi and Netgear LM1200. Goodle Fi offers free data-only sim cards that you can order from their...

ahrefs-cleanup-2024

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:56:40 +0000

This post is a big work in progress, expect it to keep getting better.

dst session one

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 09:40:05 +0000

Wyatt is also documenting his run, while we aren't playing in the same world we are playing together.

markdown split panel

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:21:23 +0000

Today I was playing with markdown split panels. I want to be able to compare and constrast occasionually, today the inspiration hit to do this using...

Make MinIO Access Key

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 19:18:05 +0000

Today in my homelab I wanted to setup a new service that needed a MinIO access key. So I created a new user and a new access key with the MinIO CLI rather...

markata 0.8.0

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:17:00 +0000

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...

markata 0.8.0

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:17:00 +0000

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...

markata search

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:21:36 +0000

A side effect of markata-didyoumean is that we are able to implement some rudimentary search based on slug, title, tags, and description.

Markata DidYouMean

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:28:36 +0000

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...

cold builds

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:28:43 +0000

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...

pesos

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:20:55 +0000

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.

hover z-index and positioning

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:54:07 +0000

I broke my sick-wikilink-hover recently in a refactor, today I did some diving in to figure out what happened.

analytics

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:36:27 +0000

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...

I fixed lists in my blog

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:08:01 +0000

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 added...

a night of rounds

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:11:56 +0000

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...

wondercraft session one

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:06:46 +0000

My son and I are starting a new Minecraft server today called wondercraft.

nvim-manager

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:14:19 +0000

I recently built a cli application as a nearly-one-shot-app called nvim-manager. It manages your nvim dotfiles install.

/now

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:07:12 +0000

This page is meant to be simple view into what is happening in my life right now. Inspired by @NowNowNow. and Derek Sivers.

one-shot-s3-cleanup

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:18:25 +0000

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...

we beat trailmakers

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:53:14 +0000

Today we broke through the atmosphere in trailmakers ready for pickup from those back at mission conrol.

/start

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:49:47 +0000

Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have posts published, here are some links to help you get started around here.

slow nfs performance

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:23:10 +0000

I'm running a two node k3s cluster at home, I _ I could simply mount an nfs share on each worker node, and essentially have the same storage accross all...

/colophon

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 10:21:23 +0000

Colophon a page that describes how the site > is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies

setting up ucore-zfs

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:55:50 +0000

I just setup my oldest hardware on the newest hotest server distro ucore-zfs. This is a gateway FX6860 manufactured in 2010.

thoughts 0.0.4

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:04:27 +0000

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...

New-caps-for-porta-john

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 19:06:00 +0000

Today I dropped some new caps in the porta-john. I need to do a bunch of posts on zmk and my journey building the porta-john, I've been rocking it for at...

blogging in 2024

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:02:09 +0000

Over the past years couple of years blog traffic has been tanking, for some time I thought it might have just been me, but then i heard it from Dave Rupert...

Trying Obsidian

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I am giving obsidian a try, this is a test post to learn the flow. Something that has been really hard for me for a long time is images, I don't include a...

animal well codes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:05:36 +0000

_ ul d dl l dl ur ul

kind cluster

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 08:01:20 +0000

kind is a very useful tool to quickly standup and teardown kubernetes clusters. I use it to run clusters locally. Generally they are short lived clusters for...

What I'm learning in 2024

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 10:06:30 +0000

2024 has been a learning fueled year, Diving deep into things I never would have previously thought I would. It's been a bit of a mix of the 🔥hot twitter...

Refactoring one line links into wikilinks

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:33:10 +0000

Previously I had setup a feature of my website to expand one line links into a card. This was not a standard, even to the point that some formatters wrap the...

about this site

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:07:02 +0000

I registered waylonwalker.com and started making content for it in 2017 after a big industry downturn in 2016 that left me scared for what would happen if I...

sick wikilink hover

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 30 May 2024 21:48:49 +0000

Today I set up some sick wikilink hover effects using tailwind see a-case-for-tailwindcss. When you hover over them they show an image preview of the link...

markata

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 30 May 2024 13:45:54 +0000

This post is a work in progress.

my linked in work history

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 30 May 2024 11:14:16 +0000

My linked in work history is empty. I made up a position about content developer that tracks how long I've been blogging. I think i did this because LinkedIn...

Your LinkedIn is Garbage

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 30 May 2024 11:02:39 +0000

Your linkedin link sits at the top of your resume, its one of the first things I see when I open your resume, but yet it gives me no more information that...

One Day Build - Play Outside

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:32:20 +0000

Inspired by Adam Savage and his One Day builds on youtube. I often build things, and want to make them generally useful for others and over configure out of...

feeds

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 20:01:44 +0000

I have several feeds that you can consume my content with. Many posts will cross between them, so if you would like to follow a certain stream of content in...

Thoughts

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:14:47 +0000

These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don't have a link. These are dual published off of my...

kubernetes 6 months in

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:20:24 +0000

I stumbled into kubernetes December 2023 when I was looking for a better way to self host applications. I was looking for something that didn't require...

poc is not product

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:49:57 +0000

A poc is ** a product. I started focais, not in a rush, but as something that I already had a POC for and thought it would be easy. I wanted to build tools...

thoughts on unit tests

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 08:49:07 +0000

Your browser does not support the audio element.

Looking for a Heroku replacement, What I found was shocking!

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 20:29:46 +0000

Your browser does not support the audio element.

why-is-postgres-default

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 21:26:36 +0000

Serious question.

A Case For Tailwindcss

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 19:46:19 +0000

I was watching @theprimeagen recently and I think he sold me on using tailwindcss. The thing about tailwind is that it is not a big component library, it's a...

Make the easy things easy

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 19:46:19 +0000

It's so easy to get out of rhythm, get busy, and drop the ball on some things that you really want to do or should do. This blog is a good example. I took...

Underground Bases with Wyatt

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 10:41:29 +0000

Playing minecraft with Wyatt today he started a server all on his own and had me join. All vanilla, only one rule, underground bases.

I took a break

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 27 May 2023 19:45:12 +0000

Life comes in waves, and sometimes you need to set down some of your projects to focus on others. For the first part of 2023 I've really had a lot of family...

Playing Star Wars Text Adventure with a 10 yr old

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 15 May 2023 12:08:00 +0000

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Pydantic and singledispatch

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 03 May 2023 17:31:13 +0000

I was reading about pydantic-singledispatch from Giddeon's blog and found it very intersting. I'm getting ready to implement pydantic on my static site...

minecraft documentary

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:38:54 +0000

This is my first time journaling a Minecraft hardcore world, my son Wyatt is also documenting his journey in a survival world on wyattbubbylee.com.

Packages I Maintain

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 20:02:38 +0000

I open sourced the static site framework that I use to build my-blog among other side projects. It's a plugins all the way down static site generator, that...

I was on Talk Python

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 20:52:02 +0000

After years of listening to talkpython.fm I had the honor to be part of episode-337 to talk about Kedro for maintainable data science.

The one reason I switched to arch

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 12:05:55 +0000

The community, that's it, end of post, roll the credits.

Using Different versions of python with pipx | pyenv

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 28 May 2022 20:38:42 +0000

I love using pipx for automatic virtual environment management of my globally installed python cli applications, but sometimes the application is not...

LIVE-REPLAY - Python dev | Markata todoui | 4/6/2022

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 12 May 2022 19:28:20 +0000

https://youtu.be/-42A5210HYo

How I Quickly Capture Screenshots directly into My Blog

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 14:05:49 +0000

When I am creating blog posts it's often helpful to add screenshots to them to illustrate what I see on my screen. Sometimes I lack good screenshots in my...

Copier < 6.0.0b0 considered dangerous

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 10:05:45 +0000

Copier is a fantastic templating library written in python, but older versions have a dangerous bug if you are using it inside of existing directories.

PyOhio CFP's

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:47:52 +0000

Here are some CFP's that I used for PyOhio 2022.

Smoother Python with automatic imports | pyflyby

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:34:47 +0000

This is not a flaky works half the time kind of plugin, it's a seriously smooth editing experience. I've just started using pyflyby, and it is solid so far....

You must use augroup with autocmd in vim | Here's how

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 08:43:43 +0000

If you are running vim autocmd's without a group, you're killing your performance. Granted your probably not sourcing your vimscript files with autocmd's too...

Code Review from the comfort of vim | Diffurcate

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 11:34:47 +0000

I often review Pull requests from the browser as it just makes it so easy to see the diffs and navigate through them, but there comes a time when the diffs...

Setup a yaml schema | yamlls for a silky smooth setup

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:24:52 +0000

I've gone far too long without a good setup for editing yaml files, I am missing out on autocomplete and proper diagnostics. This ends today as I setup...

Open files FAST from zsh | or bash if thats your thing

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:34:47 +0000

https://youtu.be/PQw_is7rQSw

How linux users install a text editor

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:18:24 +0000

In honor of the neovim 0.6.0 release, I decided to do a funny skit installing neovim, and fix up my install script in the process as part of my challenge to...

30 days dotfile ricing

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 11:34:47 +0000

https://youtu.be/Jq1Y48F_rOU

JUT | Read Notebooks in the Terminal

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 10:38:00 +0000

Trying to read a .ipynb file without starting a jupyter server? jut has you covered.

Waylon Walker

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 10:38:00 +0000

Husband, dad of two, and hobbyist builder of things on the internet.

kedro catalog create

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 07:18:55 +0000

I use to boost my productivity by automatically generating yaml catalog entries for me. It will create new yaml files for each pipeline, fill in missiing...

nvim conf 2021 | IDE's are slow | Waylon Walker

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

https://youtu.be/E18m4KkJUnI

Just Ask Ipython for help

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 21:38:26 +0000

We can't all remember every single function signature out there, it's just not possible. If you want to stay productive while coding without the temptation...

Hacktoberfest 2021?

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 09:43:52 +0000

Are you participating in Hacktoberfest 2021?

I made a neovim plugin

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:04:44 +0000

I've slowly adding more and more lua functions into my neovim configuration, and recently I noticed a pattern for a class of functions that reach out to run...

Setting Parameters in kedro

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Parameters are a place for you to store variables for your pipeline that can be accessed by any node that needs it, and can be easily changed by changing...

Writing your first kedro Nodes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:40:45 +0000

https://youtu.be/-gEwU-MrPuA

Running your Kedro Pipeline from the command line

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:40:45 +0000

Running your kedro pipeline from the command line could not be any easier to get started. This is a concept that you may or may not do often depending on...

kedro Virtual Environment

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 20:40:45 +0000

Avoid serious version conflict issues, and use a virtual environment anytime you are running python, here are three ways you can setup a kedro virtual...

Kedro Install

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 20:40:45 +0000

Kedro comes with an command to install and manage all of your projects dependencies.

Kedro Git Init

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:40:45 +0000

Immediately after , before you start running or your first line of code the first thing you should always do after getting a new kedro template created is to .

Kedro New

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 20:40:45 +0000

https://youtu.be/uqiv5LAiJe0

What is Kedro

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:48:00 +0000

Kedro is an unopinionated Data Engineering framework that comes with a somewhat opinionated template. It gives the user a way to build pipelines that...

How I Kedro

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 22:34:45 +0000

https://youtu.be/bw5_FWDVRpU Ubuntu # I recently switched over to using Ubuntu, it works well pretty much out of the box for me. I am using gnome with a dark theme. Gnome Terminal # I am still using the built in default gnome terminal, it just works. It does all the things that I need it to do. It supports transparency renders my fonts and allows me to highlight things well. One Dark Theme dotfiles # You can find my dotfiles on github. Feel free to read through and take anything that...

tmux show-messages

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 09:03:09 +0000

https://youtu.be/LLk94fKpGg4

tmux ta

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:03:09 +0000

https://youtu.be/nT0FA1RNZEs

tmux display-message

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:03:09 +0000

https://youtu.be/utfLA6L8o5s

killing tmux

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:03:09 +0000

https://youtu.be/QWPyYx54JbE

tmux has-session

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 09:03:09 +0000

https://youtu.be/XucVVgGmesM

tmux list-keys

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 09:03:09 +0000

https://youtu.be/Y1MYmL8ZolE

tmux status-bar

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 09:03:09 +0000

https://youtu.be/mvgM8UH11_U

tmux source-file

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 09:03:09 +0000

https://youtu.be/dDq0depPrTs

tmux fzf session jumper

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 09:03:09 +0000

https://youtu.be/DkJ9rb85LC0

tmux next/prev session

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 09:03:09 +0000

https://youtu.be/8kZnjHPYnKU

tmux start application

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/c-a2Bnv_NJ0

tmux rename session

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/WRLRiQDjVIA

tmux targeted session

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/5KE7Il7SOEk

tmux new-session

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/LbQNdCAUogE

tmux detach

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/A1qx3tNKDdA

tmux attach

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/JQ0yDCVu44E

Git in Depth Notes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 08:44:44 +0000

These are my notes from taking @nnja's FEM course git-in-depth.

tmux ls

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/LY41GLn_DGg

tmux command line

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/SNu-4IrkjAs

tmux copy-mode

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/-ypY_-VmBKk

tmux join-pane

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/Vm5rRtcVXLw

tmux break-pane

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/ICL609F2xnc

tmux zoom

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/Rn6mOarCQ-Y

tmux new-window

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/YRPZBv-iYyE

tmux slect-pane

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/CPZJZjN9YTY

tmux rotate-window

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/06z5qf81ofo

tmux select-layout

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/F0mHnwTrNNc

tmux resize-panes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/hpFYE2LU7xc

tmux choose-tree

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/79Y-kqAiMpw

tmux prefix

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/BMkpbfhbkKM

tmux splitting panes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/kzgyiHap1nQ

tmux last session

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/RB87EEnnMnU

tmux floating popups

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/2ZqFDsJywt8

tmux popups

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 23:51:21 +0000

https://youtu.be/2I8fB28zfB4

Incremental Versioned Datasets in Kedro

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 11:12:25 +0000

Kedro versioned datasets can be mixed with incremental and partitioned datasets to do some timeseries analysis on how our dataset changes over time. Kedro is...

I Started Streaming on Twitch

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 10:11:00 +0000

I recently started streaming on twitch.tv/waylonwalker and it's been a blast so far.

Kedro Spaceflights - part 2 | Stream replay June 7, 2021

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:15:04 +0000

This was my seconf time ever streaming on twitch.tv/waylonwalker, and I completely botched my mic 2x.

🌱 Digital Gardening | gif to Mp4 | Stream replay June 4, 2021

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 16:15:04 +0000

https://youtu.be/I4VenHqIEng

Kedro Spaceflights - part 1 | Stream replay June 4, 2021

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 16:15:04 +0000

This was my first time ever streaming on twitch.tv/waylonwalker. I am excited to get going. I have been streaming early in the morning while I am still...

Using Kedro In Scripts

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 23 May 2021 11:00:44 +0000

With the latest releases of kedro , it is now possible to run kedro pipelines from within scripts. While I would not start a project with this technique, it...

Silence Kedro Logs

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 20 May 2021 13:13:38 +0000

Kedro can have a chatty logger. While this is super nice in production so see everything that happened during a pipeline run. This can be troublesome while...

Python Diskcahe is locked

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 14 May 2021 18:38:45 +0000

change_speed = (speed) => [...document.querySelectorAll('video')].map(v => v.playbackRate=v.playbackRate+speed)

How I navigate tmux in 2021

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 11 May 2021 09:14:07 +0000

change_speed = (speed) => [...document.querySelectorAll('video')].map(v => v.playbackRate=v.playbackRate+speed)

Trim unused git branches

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 07 May 2021 09:47:24 +0000

Trim branches no longer on origin # git remote prune origin --dry-run git remote prune origin Find branches already merged # git checkout main # list remote branches that have already been merged into main git branch -r --merged # list local branches that have already been merged into main git branch --merged

What is if name == "main_", and how do I use it.

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 07 May 2021 09:47:24 +0000

change_speed = (speed) => [...document.querySelectorAll('video')].map(v => v.playbackRate=v.playbackRate+speed)

Create a Virtual File Gallery with Symlinks

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 05 May 2021 08:23:33 +0000

Creating a directory that is a union of several directories can be achieved with a few symlinks at the command line.

How to Install micromamba on linux (from the comamnd line only)

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:32:27 +0000

I really like using conda () as my python virtual environment manager of choice. It's simple and it includes its own python interpreter using the version...

Vim Wsl Clipboard

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I've long used neovim from within windows wsl, and for far too long, I went without a proper way to get text out of it and into windows.

kedro replit

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:37:29 +0000

I am trying to see what an embeded replit

Pytest capsys

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 08:46:08 +0000

Testing print/log statements in pytest can be a bit tricky, capsys makes it super easy, but I often struggle to find it.

Building Rich a Dev Server

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 11:23:26 +0000

Site Down During Build

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I noticed a new netlify site of mine was down while I was checking to see if new content was live. Later found out this was consistent after each...

Kedro pipeline_registry.py

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

With the realease of came a new module in the project template . Here are some notes that I learned while playing with this new module.

Stand With Your Team

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

People who are quick to toss team members under a bus are not well trusted or highly thought of and it will lead to some toxic team dynamics.

Blogging For Me

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I create this blog with one person in mind, me.

Minimal Kedro Pipeline

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

How small can a minimum kedro pipeline ready to package be? I made one within 4 files that you can pip install. It's only a total of 35 lines of python, 8 in...

Markdown Cli

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This is a post that may be a work in progress for awhile, Its a collections of thoughts on managing my blog, but could be translated into anythiung that is...

My Content Strategy For 2021

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I am making another push in 2021 to get my content out in the world and meeting users where they are. See how I plan to execute.

Quickly Edit Posts

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I automated starting new posts with a python script. Today I want to work on the next part that is editing those posts quickly.

Gitui is a blazing fast terminal git interface

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Gitui is a terminal-based git user interface (TUI) that will change the way that you work with git. I have been a long-time user of the git cli, and it's...

Kedro - My Data Is Not A Table

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In python data science/engineering most of our data is in the form of some sort of table, typically a DataFrame from a library like pandas, spark, or dask.

Quickly Change Conda Env With Fzf

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Changing conda environments is a bit verbose, I use a function with fzf that both lists environments and selects the one I want in one go.

Vim Replace Visual Star

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Replacing text based on whats in the current search register is a quite handy tool that I use often. I believe I picked this tip up from Nick Janetakis,...

Minimal Python Package

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

What does it take to create an installable python package that can be hosted on pypi?

If Tmux

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I do much of my work from tmux, I love it so much that I want to setup some functionality that puts me in tmux even if I didn't ask for it.

Save Vim Macro

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

If you are like me, you have created a macro or two that is pure glory, and you forget how you made it after a day or so, or you immediately want to store it...

Live Substitution In Neovim

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Replacing text in vim can be quite frustrating especially since it doesn't have live feedback to what is changing. Today I was watching Josh Branchaud's...

Newsboat

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Web browsers are a black hole of productivity. I try to use them as little as possible when it is time to focus. I try to use , , or with ipython, or --help...

Large Refactor At The Command Line

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

As projects grow patterns that worked early on break and we need to change things to make the project easier to work with, and more welcoming to new developers.

Ipython-Config

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I use my ipython terminal daily. It's my go to way of running python most of the time. After you use it for a little bit you will probably want to setup a...

Custom Ipython Prompt

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I've grown tired of the standard ipython prompt as it doesn't do much to give me any useful information. The default one gives out a line number that only...

Automating my Post Starter

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 09:08:00 +0000

One thing we all dread is mundane work of getting started, and all the hoops it takes to get going. This year I want to post more often and I am taking some...

Windowing Python Lists

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:44:19 +0000

In python data science we often will reach for pandas a bit more than necessary. While pandas can save us so much there are times where there are...

Adding Audio to my blog posts

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:52:22 +0000

This is episode 1 of the Waylon Walker Audio experience, posts from waylonwalker.com{.hoverlink} in audio form. So I have had this idea for awhile to add audio to my blog posts. The idea partly comes from the aws blog, if you have ever been on their blog you will have noticed that they have a voiced by amazon polly section. What to Expect # Honestly I don’t know this is all new to me and I dont have much to go off of. For now its a test that may or may not work out. I will say that the time...

gatsby-remark-embedder

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Inspired by discourse's link expansion I am rolling out expansions for one line links on the blog

Expand One Line Links

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:00:00 +0000

I wanted a super simple way to cross-link blog posts that require as little effort as possible, yet still looks good in vanilla markdown in GitHub. I have...

Find and Replace in the Terminal.

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 05:00:00 +0000

notes about find and replace techniques

Resume Tips

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 06:00:00 +0000

customize for the job - Why are you a good fit? - What will you bring to the role? - Give real outcomes - give real experience - Stop tech vomiting - if you...

Codeit Bro Interview

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 06:00:00 +0000

use this profile image

reasons-to-kedro

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 05:00:00 +0000

There are many reasons that you should be using kedro. If you are on a team of Data Scientists/Data Engineers processing DataFrames from many data sources should be considering a pipeline framework. Kedro is a great option that provides many benefits for teams to collaborate, develop, and deploy data pipelines What is Kedro Starter Template # Kedro makes it super easy to get started with their cli that utilizes cookiecutter under the hood. conda create -n my-new-project -y python=3.8 kedro...

Reasons to Kedro

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

collaboration - Sharable catalog - small nodes over monolithic notebooks - catalog - easily load anything without needing to run - No need to write...

Reading List

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Things to read later

What's New in Kedro 0.16.6

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

This version of kedro releases a new set of supported deployment options and the spaceflights pipeline is officially added as a starter alias.

A brain dump of stories

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

I started making stories as kind of a brain dump a few times per day and posting them to LinkedIn. Here are the last 11 days of stories.

Fix git commit author

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

I was 20 commits into a hackoberfest PR when I suddenly realized they they all had my work email on them instead of my personal email 😱.

Designing a "Router" for kedro

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

I released a router-like plugin for kedro back in April 2020. This was not the first design, the idea actually came from one of the QB folks who taught me...

Reclaim memory usage in Jupyter

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Today I ran into an issue where we had a one-off script that just needed to work, but it was just chewing threw memory like nothing.

Strip Trailing Whitespace from Git projects

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0000

A common linting error thrown by various linters is for trailing whitespace. I most often use flake8. I generally have pre-commit hooks setup to strip this,...

Chrome Extensions I use

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0000

There are many useful chrome extensions out there. I probably have way too many installed, here are four that I am currently using.

Creating Reusable Bash Scripts

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Bash is a language that is quite useful for automation no matter what language you write in. Bash can do so many powerful system-level tasks. Even if you are...

Three things to Automate with Python using Pandas

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Here are three things that I see my non programming counterparts doing every single day. These really sum up so much of what folks do within an office. So...

How to Install miniconda on linux (from the command line only)

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Installing miniconda from only the command line can be a bit of an intimidating task your first time. Lets walk through how to do it.

How to crush amazing posts on DEV

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Here are a few of my top tips to help make dev.to posts more readable, and drive better engagement.

Black Tech Pipeline

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0000

I was particularly inspired by @chantastic episode 103 of the react podcast with @ParissAthena. They spoke about the black tech pipeline as well as...

Review of the git-auto-commit-action

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0000

It's a really cool GitHub action that will automatically commit files changed during the action. I was using this to render a new readme based on a template.

What's New in Kedro 0.16.4

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0000

If we take a look at the release notes I see one ** feature improvement on the list, auto-discovery of hooks.

Integration testing with Python, TestProject.io, and GitHub Actions

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 05:00:00 +0000

!!! Caution None of the testproject.io urls resolve anymore in JAN 2025, I removed all of the broken links.

New Machine for developing Tests with TestProject.io

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Today I setup a new machine on Digital Ocean to use with TestProject.io, Here are my installation notes.

🐍 Practice Python Online

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 05:00:00 +0000

When learning a new skill it's important to practice along the way. In order for me to show up to practice I need to make it easy to show up. An easy way to...

Kedro Catalog

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 05:00:00 +0000

I am exploring a kedro catalog meta data hook

How python tools configure

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Mypy's config parser seems to be one of the most complex. This is likely in part to it having the largest backwards compatability of all projects that I...

Edit On GitHub

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 05:00:00 +0000

I recently added a button to my blog, and subsequently my posts on DEV.to. It's the best thing that I have done for it in a while. It makes it so easy to do...

Why use a cms

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:00:00 +0000

When first learning to code its very common to hard code everything right into the code. This happens with most folks in just about any language. Whether its...

🐍 Parsing RSS feeds with Python

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 03:00:00 +0000

I am looking into a way to replace my google reader experience that I had back in 2013 before google took it from us. I am starting by learning how to parse...

Reader-2020

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Notes about my reader idea

🤓 What's on your GitHub Profile

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 03:00:00 +0000

I ran this post on dev.to and got a great response of great examples, check it out.

🙋‍♂️ Can Anyone Explain Twitter Cards to me?

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 03:00:00 +0000

Can someone explain how or why twitter cards render differently from device to device? I do understand that twitter cards a built from meta tags, the full...

How I Built My GitHub Profile

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 03:00:00 +0000

I ran a discussion on dev that collected quite a list of examples in the comment section. So many great calls to action, animations, memes, and weird tricks.

SLIDES - understanding python \args and \\*kwargs

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Python and are super useful tools, that when used properly can make you code much simpler and easier to maintain. Large manual conversions from a dataset to...

Gracefully adopt kedro, the catalog

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 03:00:00 +0000

While using the catalog alone will not reap all of the benefits of the framework, it does get you and your project ready for the full framework eventually....

How to find things in your kedro catalog

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 03:00:00 +0000

kedro 0.16.2 just dropped last week with a long-awaited feature... **! I went as far as monkey patching this into each of my projects. I work jump between a...

My first eight years as a working professional.

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 05:00:00 +0000

This day 8 years ago I started my first day as a Mechanical Engineer. I am so grateful for this journey that I have been able to have. There is no way that I...

How Kedro handles your inputs

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 03:00:00 +0000

Passing inputs into kedro is a key concept. Understanding how it accepts a single catalog key as input is quite trivial that easily makes sense, but passing...

Master No More

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 05:00:00 +0000

It's been a long time coming. We use some very harsh language within tech so much sometimes that we become numb to it. It's time to do my very small part in...

Refactoring your blog urls

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 05:00:00 +0000

I just did a quick refactoring of my JAMStack blog urls. Some didn't fit with my style, some had that I wanted to switch to , and others were ridiculously...

understanding python \args and \\*kwargs

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Python and are super useful tools, that when used properly can make you code much simpler and easier to maintain. Large manual conversions from a dataset to...

pre-commit is awesome

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 05:00:00 +0000

I recently discovered the ✨ awesomeness that is pre-commit. I steered away from it for so long because it seemed like a big daunting thing to set up, but...

Building kedro.dev

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 05:00:00 +0000

This is my journey to building up the community page.

Kedro Static Viz 0.3.0 is out with Hooks Support

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 28 May 2020 05:00:00 +0000

kedro-static-viz is out with support for the newly released hooks feature. This means that you can have automatically deploy a full gatsby site keeping your...

Create Configurable Kedro Hooks

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 23 May 2020 05:00:00 +0000

There are two main ways to create kedro hooks, with modules and classes. Each one still uses the same verbiage as the function/method names.

Brainstorming Kedro Hooks

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 22 May 2020 22:02:00 +0000

This post is a 🧠 branstorming work in progress. I will likely use it as a storage location/brain dump of hook ideas.

How to get Dev Comments from an article Url

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 20 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

I want to incorporate some of the wonderful comments, \U0001F495, \U0001F984, and \U0001F516's that I have been getting on dev.to on my website. I have...

Four github actions for your website

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 18 May 2020 13:02:00 +0000

GitHub's actions are a new GitHub feature that will trigger GitHub to spin up a virtual machine and run some tasks with some special access to your repo. It...

Adding google fonts to a gatsbyjs site

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 17 May 2020 05:00:00 +0000

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47488440/how-do-i-add-google-fonts-to-a-gatsby-site

Create Custom Kedro Dataset

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 15 May 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Kedro provides an efficient way to build out data catalogs with their yaml api. It allows you to be very declaritive about loading and saving your data. For...

Interrogate is a pretty awesome, brand new, cli for Python packages

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 15 May 2020 03:00:00 +0000

dead simple docstring coverage for your python project

drawing ascii boxes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 12 May 2020 22:05:00 +0000

I always struggle to find a good reference of ascii characters. This is a compilation of my most wanted ascii characters.

creating the kedro-preflight hook

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 10 May 2020 07:12:00 +0000

Kedro Hooks Intro - kedro hooks are an exciting upcoming feature of kedro . They allow you to hook into ,, and (nouns). With a , or (adjective). This really...

📝 Kedro Preflight Notes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 09 May 2020 15:01:00 +0000

run checks before running the pipeline

Maintianing multiple git remotes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 07 May 2020 11:56:00 +0000

git remote -v git remote add gitlab <url> git push gitlab main

📢 Announcing find-kedro

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 04 May 2020 11:53:00 +0000

kedro is an amazing project that allows for super-fast prototyping of data pipelines, yet yielding production-ready pipelines. find-kedro enhances this experience by adding a pytest-like node discovery eliminating the need to bubble up pipelines through modules.

Explicit vs Implicit Returns in Javascript

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 03 May 2020 11:55:00 +0000

Often when reading through javascript examples you will find some arrow functions use parentheses while others use braces . This key difference is that...

Twitter deepdives

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 01 May 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Inspired by Chris Achard

TIL: Bind arguments to dynamically generated lambdas in python

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:13:00 +0000

This past week I had a really weird bug in my kedro pipeline. For some reason data running through my pipeline was coming out completely made no sense, but...

python-deepwatch

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Is it possible to deep watch a single python function for changes?

Four Github Actions for Python

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 06:23:00 +0000

If you are developing python packages and using GitHub here are four actions that you can use today to automate your release workflow. Since python tools...

Variables names don't need their type

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:03:00 +0000

So often I see a variables inside of its name and it hurts me a little inside. Tell me I'm right or prove me wrong below.

Send Emails with GitHub Actions

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 03:39:00 +0000

Here is one useful thing that you can do with GitHub actions no matter what language you use, send email. You might want to know right away when your ci...

What Are GitHub Actions

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000

GitHub actions are an amazing tool that allows us to run code based on triggers inside of our repo. Their is a large and growing community of actions inside...

Getting Started with GitHub Actions

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Github actions are written in configuration files using the YAML syntax. YAML is a superset of JSON. Most YAML can be expressed inline with JSON syntax....

Today I learned `git diff feature..main`

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 11:58:00 +0000

Sometimes we get a little happy and mistakenly commit something that we just cant figure out. This is a good way to figure out what the heck has changed on the current branch compared to any other branch.

Create New Kedro Project

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:09:00 +0000

This is a quickstart to getting a new kedro pipeline up and running. After this article you should be able to understand how to get started with kedro. You...

What is YOUR Advice for New Data Scientists

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 12:55:00 +0000

Learn Git * Keep Learning

Do You Hoist

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:52:00 +0000

Do you have any use cases that you use hoising? Why? It seems like a really cool feature in any language that uses it, but I dont really notice it in use.

What is Kedro

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:48:00 +0000

what-is-kedro

Custom Scrollbar Design

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:11:00 +0000

Getting a custom scrollbar on your site makes it stand out a bit compared to the very plain stock one that are on most sites. This is how I set mine up on my...

Don’t waste your time learning everything

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Stick to what you know, and learn a little bit of something new every day.

2020 waylonwalker.com rebrand

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:02:00 +0000

I documented the story of my 2020 waylonwalker.com redesign on my blog. This post walks through the tools and inspiration for the card design.

I just added react-headroom to my site

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 12:57:00 +0000

It was so easy to get a professional looking navbar with just 3 lines of code. This package seriously is so usable on mobile it is ridiculous. I found this...

Serverless things to investigate

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Free - only one step is free - can take rss to social

I finally fixed my Styled-Components in gatsby.js

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 15:07:00 +0000

I finally fixed my Styled-Components in gatsby.js. I am starting a redesign of my website. I have started cross posting to dev.to more regularly. With that I...

Should I switch to Zeit Now

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 22:38:00 +0000

Should I switch to Zeit Now. Netlify build times are starting to creep in.

git push without setting upstream

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:18:00 +0000

Finally after years of hand typing out a full I found there is a setting to automatcally push to the current branch. More realisitically I just did a let git...

Out of Space

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Out of Space! How to remove 65 conda environments in one command.

simple click

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Add helpful cli to your python libraries... All of them!

Personal URL shortener with Netlify Redirects

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Personal URL shortener with Netlify Redirects

cmd.exe tips

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:18:45 +0000

cmd.exe tips

What is something you should have learned or understood earlier?

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 06:00:00 +0000

What is something that you recently learned that you wish you would have learned or understood earlier?

Supercharge Zsh Startup

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 06:00:00 +0000

I have been using oh-my-zsh successfully for about 2 years now. But lately my startup time has been really bothersome. It has grown to the point where it was...

Keep Location List Closed

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Vim's (neovim in my case) location list can provide some very useful information while developing. Mine gives me information about linting and type checking...

SqlAlchemy Models

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

My Notes about using sqlalchemy models

Building Cli apps in Python

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:00:00 +0000

learning about building cli apps in python

Kedro

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:00:00 +0000

My Notes about using kedro

📝 Packages to Investigate Notes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Tabnine

Debugging Python

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Debugging Python

Just Use Pathlib

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Pathlib is an amazing cross-platform path tool.

Custom Python Exceptions

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Custom Python Exceptions

Filtering Pandas

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Filtering pandas DataFrames many different ways.

Digital Ocean

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 05:00:00 +0000

I love digital ocean for it's ** and its commitment to open source.

Quick Progress Bars in python using TQDM

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Quick Progress Bars in python using TQDM

Clean up Your Data Science with Named Tuples

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

If you are a regular listener of TalkPython or PythonBytes you have hear Michael Kennedy talk about Named Tuples many times, but what are they and how do...

Background Tasks in Python for Data Science

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 05:00:00 +0000

This post is intended as an extension/update from background tasks in python. I started using the week that Kenneth Reitz released it. It takes away so much...

📝 Bash Notes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Waylon Walker's Bash Notes

Autoreload in Ipython

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Autoreload in python

Keyboard Driven VSCode

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Reimagining my tmux configuration inside of vscode.

Realistic Git Workflow

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

My git workflow based on real life. Its not always clean and simple.

Forestry.io

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 08:02:00 +0000

Creating Posts from forestry.io.

Rewrite History with Git

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

git commit --amend

It's not all about winning

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This is my story into data science.

Update Git User

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This morning I log into my VCS and check activity on my projects to find that ** has been _ active on my projects fo the last few weeks. I quicklyhover over...

2019 goals

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

2019 goals

2018 Retrospective

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

2018 was a year of many ups and downs, and learning to deal with a whole new set of problems professionally and at home. In 2018 I logged in to my first...

Do More of What Brings You Joy

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

happiness in the workplace

D3 Day 5

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 08 May 2018 10:40:39 +0000

select rowid, key, raw, store_time, access_count, tag, size, mode, filename from Cache where key='e3cd37c97980ab2c'; 'e3cd37c97980ab2c' 'e3cd37c97980ab2c'...

D3 Day 4

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 06 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Today we are adding scale to day 3's example horizontal bar chart.

D3 Day 3

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 05 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

none

FlexBox

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

em { color: #ff9966; } code { background: #FF06050A; color: #6394C8; } .item { color: #6394C8; font-size: 1.5rem; padding: 1rem; display: flex;...

Vim Notes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

norcalli/neovim-plugin

Llms

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 01:01:01 +0000

Help language models understand and surface my work accurately.