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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 Linux system, setup my own webserver, data pipelines, database. I learned to use react and d3. Stepped up my python, javascript, and sql. At home the doctor appointments keep piling in. While I am learning to deal with it all there were several times throughout the year that I was very overwhelmed with everything and broke down. Here are the goals I had listed out for 2018 and how I faired at completing them. Positivity The Good Continue “Favorite Things” with family at dinner time Take 2 10min breaks per day clear the mind I can say that the kids are fully on board with favorite things and love to tell everyone about how their day went. This is a time that they are very positive and generally give praise to another family member for helping them through their day. To Be Improved Gratitude journaling every day Snooze Less be productive…

Today I want to take some time to talk about the things that make me happy in my work environment. This is completely free-flow off the cuff, but are things that I do that make me happy, not having them would definitely be a deal breaker for me. Attitude A positive work atmosphere goes a long ways. We all have enough negativity going on in our lives that is out of our control accepting any negativity in the workplace is a no go for me. There was a point in which I was suffering a lot of negativity at work. This began to trickle into every part of life, and it became hard to see positivity anywhere. My wife not only noticed this, but put a polite request in for change. It was definitely a low point and she could tell tell that my work life was not helping anything. Bring the positivity to your workplace. It is really difficult for folks to tear you down if you are the one that is always up beat and happy. People will notice. When they do they will bring the good projects your way, Prais…

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Flexbox-zombies I recently finished up the flexbox-zombies course to learn more about flexbox, and to become proficient with it. I can truly say that this course has changed the way that I create layouts. Flexbox is very intuitive now. What this course does really well at is explaining the concepts and hitting you with a ton of examples that you can work through really quickly. Basic Setup Flexbox requires a wrapper container to work I will refer to this as the flex container, and the items in that container as items. Markup I will use the following markup throughout the article, each with different css applied. note The animated container is inspired by the flexbox-zombies course. I really like how it allows you to see the responsiveness of each layout. In the early example the reasoning may not be aparent, but as we go along some of the flexbox parameters will make more sense if we are viewing them on a dynamic layout since flexbox is designed for building responsive design. 1 2 3 4…

nvim lua norcalli/neovim-plugin nvim lsp python-lsp/python-lsp-server Using c to change text I have gone quite awhile without using and instead using. The reason that I started using is because it automatically places you into insert mode. This not only saves me one keystroke for commands such as is now, but it also works with the repeat command!!! This is huge. When refactoring a document I had been creating a macro to change one word to another, using instead of allows the use of the rather than needing to create a macro. Case for vim Sublime/VSCode cannot edit a macro register register quickfix gF autocomplete repeats previously typed text z-commands Fold none: reset ‘foldenable’. All folds will be open.

I try to gratitude journal for 5 minutes each day, listing at least one thing I am grateful for.

Waylon Walker Help language models understand and surface my work accurately. Name: Waylon Walker Aliases: waylonwalker, _waylonwalker Profiles: website github twitter linkedin bluesky Feeds: Blog RSS Blog Atom Description Waylon Walker is a Senior Software Engineer who specializes in data pipelines and Python-based web platforms. He runs a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster in his basement, built his own static site generator because he got tired of bloated Node modules, and writes about Python, Linux, neovim, and the intersection of tech and family life. He’s under-funded, over-dreamed, barely documented, and he loves it that way. Core Content About Me: Who I am and why I’m like this About This Site: How and why I built my own static site generator Uses: What hardware and software I actually use day-to-day Blog RSS Feed: All blog posts in RSS format Kedro and Data Engineering What is Kedro: Introduction to Kedro for data pipelines Kedro Your First Nodes: Getting started tutorial Kedro Ins…