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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. 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 apps [[replacing-google-search-apps-with-self-hosted [4]-web-apps]] - Doing a second run through hollow knight home row layout [5] - Also second run of animal well - put a pause on the thps gap project Posts tagged: thps-gaps [6] - working on a split version...

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 3645 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] [[ slashes ]] 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… - /c...

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...

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 least two weeks now pretty solid and I am absolutely loving it. More on that later. KLP-Lame-Keycaps # [1] The model of the caps are KLP-Lame [2] by braindefender [3] , they are super rounded and smooth. They look really good on camera and feel good to the finders. [4] I printed these at home on my ender3 s1 pro with a black and purple silk filliment. I printed all 42 at once using a Printing 42 keys at once [5] technique. They do have just a bit of a rough texture that you can feel on your figertips. I printed these on super quality .12mm layer height, while my last set was printed on draft quality .32mm layer height. They look crazy different in print quality with the lines of the new caps barely showing, the feel isn’t nearly as drastic. The Result # [6] Check out the final shots as I set up the porta-john with these swee...

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 on Shop Talk show, and it made sense. LLMs and AI is slowly killing the internet as we know it. My metrics # [1] I dug into my emails from the google search console team and found two results nearly one year apart. Impressions are only 60% of its value a year ago while clicks are only 35% of where they were a year ago. I’m getting less impressions and even less clicks. [2] May 2023 [3] June 2024 Suspicions # [4] What I think is happening is a large portion of users are getting their answers from ChatGPT, Copilot, and llms like this. A lot of my posts have been filling gaps in the internet, notes for myself when I struggle to integrate x in y because there was a gap of how to do so in the docs and stack overflow. Some small fraction of users have moved on to duck duck go and other non global warming search engines with AI ...

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 lot of images just because it takes so much longer just to get the post out. I store them in a separate repo, I need to resize and compress them for the web so they aren’t so big. Images are easy # [1] This is my current wallpaper. [2] I took he screenshot and just pasted it in. I have more about my process in this post about Obsidian Image Converter [3]. It’s still just markdown # [4] I don’t know why it took me so long to understand this but obsidian is just markdown files. I pretty much just plugged in my existing blog and it picked up all the tags and was ready to run. I now get some nice visualizations to help me identify posts that were not ever tagged or maybe left unfinished. It leans hard on wikilinks # [5] I just finished moving my backend over to md-it-python, which comes with some good wiliklink support. I eve...

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kind [1]{.hoverlink} 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 trying, testing, and learning about kubernetes. Kind is Kubernetes in Docker, its very fast to get a new cluster up and running. Other than checking a box in docker desktop it is the easiest way currently to get a cluster up and running. I’ve used docker desktop for k8s before I really developed on k8s and it was buggy at the time and sometimes started and sometimes didn’t, when it didnt I had no idea how to fix it. I’d suggest kind as the best option to get a cluster up and running locally. Not Production # [2] If you are looking for a production ready cluster this is not it. I really like k3s [3]{.hoverlink}. At the time that I chose k3s it was the most lightweight option that easily supported multi-node clusters. Starting a kind cluster # [4] The first step, and maybe only one that you need is to create ...

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 trends, and exactly what tech twitter tells you not to do. It just goes to show community is great, the tech community is filled with strong opinions, but you need to think about what really makes sense for you, your career and your customers (or lack there of). tech # [1] - k8s - tailwind - fastapi [2] - htmx [3] - jinja - opnsense successful one day builds # [4] - play-outside - reader - thoughts - thoughts chrome-extension Kubernetes # [5] Damn did I sleep on k8s for way took long. This is like exactly what I’ve needed for a lot of things. It’s a perect example of what happens when you listen to the tech community tell you. Looking for a Heroku replacement, What I found was shocking! [6] I started looking for something to make my homelab [7] deployments easier at home. Previously I needed to ssh into my server an...

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 links with , thus breaking my custom plugin. Moving to the wikilink standard will allow my markdown posts to work accross more site builders without custom integrations. Expand One Line Links [1] What is a wikilink # [2] Wikilinks are standard to a lot of wikis written in markdown. markdown-it-wikilinks [3] The wikilink syntax is a slug wrapped in double square brackets. [[ slug ]] Marksman lsp will even autocomplete these for you, its pretty sweet. Note I recently implemented hover for wikilinks and and am pretty stoked about the result. Check this one out sick wikilink hover [4]. Vim Quickfix # [5] You could use vimgrep to fill your quickfix list will all of the one line links but I am less familiar with vimgrep and kept missing posts for some reason, I think it was something in my file glob missing some directori...