---
title: "/colophon"
description: "Colophon a page that describes how the site > is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies"
date: 2025-01-02
published: true
tags:
  - blog
  - dev
  - meta
  - slash
  - webdev
template: blog-post
---


> [Colophon](https://indieweb.org/colophon) a page that describes how the site
> is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies

## Author

![Waylon Walker's Profile Picture](https://images.waylonwalker.com/profile.webp)

All posts on this site are written by [Waylon
Walker](https://waylonwalker.com), 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 <a href="/about/" class="wikilink" data-title="Waylon Walker" data-description="Husband, dad of two, and hobbyist builder of things on the internet." data-date="2021-11-20">Waylon Walker</a>

## tech

This site is a static site build with my own static site generator <a href="/markata/" class="wikilink" data-title="markata" data-description="This post is a work in progress." data-date="2024-05-30">markata</a>, <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">Thoughts</a> or as Simon Willison calls it a [link
blog](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/#atom-everything) posts
are pulled in as a regular posts, all is hosted on cloudflare pages.

* <a href="/markata/" class="wikilink" data-title="markata" data-description="This post is a work in progress." data-date="2024-05-30">markata</a>
* <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">Thoughts</a>
* cloudflare pages

see more about these components in <a href="/about-this-site/" class="wikilink" data-title="about this site" data-description="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..." data-date="2024-05-31">about this site</a>

## Analytics

I do not track users, I respect the privacy of my readers and do not track
their information.  I do track <a href="/analytics/" class="wikilink" data-title="analytics" data-description="I&#39;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..." data-date="2025-01-22">analytics</a> on my own writing a post rate.
Its more of an interesting history of the site.

## meta

Some evergreen pages that are more about me or this site from the <a href="/tags/meta/" class="wikilink" data-title="Posts tagged: meta" data-description="All posts with the tag &#34;meta&#34;">Posts tagged: meta</a> feed.