Daily Notes

2026-03-03 Notes

2026-03-03T14:34:59Z

The big news today sweeping everywhere is the weekend bombing of Iran, Anthropic had an ultimatum to allow AI agents to autonomously pull the trigger on life or death decisions and monitor every citizen in public spaces. They stood their ground and it looks like many Americans stood with them, while spending millions on superbowl ads did almost nothing to them, this shot them to the top app downloads as openai subs plummet and anthropic subs soar.

I’m old enough to remember 9/11/01, an event that would kick off decade long war. It felt different then. Maybe because I was 12, maybe because the Internet was not the prominant source of live new information. The vibe was support. Support to right the wrongs, prevent future attacks. That day had lasting effects for decades to come to the people on the ground.

This is not meant to be politicaly in any way, not take any side good, bad, right, wrong, purple, or grey, just the vibes I’m feeling and wanted to document for some reason. Logging this one in unpublished, idk, not really my expertise just wanted to write feelings.

2026-01-23 Notes

2026-01-23T22:28:38Z

Next for markata go

Embed post, internal and external
Og images
Post importer - thoughts
Reader / blogroll plugin
K9s inspired tui
:files, :posts, :tags, :feeds,

Extra classes

Wikilinks

Lsp

Complete wikilinks
Complete mentions
Document diagnostic
Workspace diagnostics
Config completions

Jinja_md obsidian like support

View as in footer

Archive missing grid of pages

Nav footer different on feeds than post Sometimes the skip to content peeks into the top left corner of the page by a few pixels, it’s distracting

Tap to zoom image

Google font

Sitemap

Background image support

Mouse support in tui works, not in tmux

All optional plugins with config from user should raise warning configured not able

Lines of code should be separate from word count

Tui press enter, should see full post and scroll/read render markdown

Update branding from fast to comprehensive

Debug pages, show config

Image gallery
carousel
Prev/next
Embedfeed
Fix aside
Contrast / flashbang check on admonitions styles on all themes.
Glossary
Banner post
Keys
Containers

Page 1 link is always highlighted
Page 1 link is broken when coming from page 1
On mobile search is too wide
Shots needs warmed with a head request

2025-11-21 Notes

2025-11-21T14:25:59Z

Learned about nginx_auth today. Feels good to unlock a new skill that I did not quite understand before. I don’t think I grasped that there is a backend server in this flow to handle every request. I could not fathom how this was secure with nginx alone.

https://git.wayl.one/waylon/learn-nginx-auth

I’m excited to give this a try in my homelab with k3s ingress next.

2025-11-19 Notes

2025-11-19T18:55:14Z

Making progress on dropper this week.

In prod.

resize for image and video
File feed with paging
New plain filesystem backend

In dev

Robust video conversion that seems to work on all my test videos
Duplicate file detection

Thinking about kedro pipelines from my phone in a parking lot here. I’m thinking about big picture what’s next for my pipelines. I want an effective Dr plan. I want to create telemetry endpoints for catalog. This will enable the Dr plan to identify critical data that is not created by a pipeline and communication points to other teams.

2025-11-04 Notes

2025-11-04T18:43:38Z

Today I gave mcat a try and it’s so sick. It can cat anything right in the terminal, pdf, image, even video. It even works inside tmux unlike almost anything else that I’ve tried.

2025-08-25 Notes

2025-08-25T10:45:08Z

Gave modd a try and it seems pretty good, will likely be slotting it in next to my justfile usage.

Gave sus a try, but it lacked the configurability and flexibility I was looking for. For now I will stick to markata-redirects plugin.

2025-08-23 Notes

2025-08-23T19:27:05Z

Knife Sharpener #

Today, some great work on the knife sharpener re-design. I’ve been using the same one since I first got my ender 3 3d printer, and have wanted to make some changes ever since.

Wyatt sat with me through the design, I probably would not have gone this deep without him, he thought the helmet look was hilarious

Knife Sharpener Double Hinge First Try

Notice one of the biggest problems with this one here is how much is slides around

This wing nut really set it apart

Hollow Knight #

Progress on the Hollow Knight Keeb Run. SILKSONG in 2 WEEKS!!

Getting The Lumafly Lantern In My Hollow Knight Keeb Run Unlocking Royal Waterways In Hollow Knight Keeb Run Entering Royal Waterway Hollow Knight Keeb Run Unlock Royal Waterway Bench In Hollow Knight Keeb

todays script #

Made a little script to grab these

for post in m.feeds.today.posts:
    if post.get('image', None):
        print(f'![{post["title"]}]({post["image"]})')
    else:
        print(f'[{post["title"]}]({post["url"]})')

2025-08-21 Notes

2025-08-21T07:43:49Z

https://youtu.be/-EYRzF0zp3U?si=mKCPlMDecrqzvjuF

Is ai in 2025 like a Roomba vacuum? The ads make it look fantastic but after some time it becomes worthless and needs constant monitoring.

https://youtube.com/shorts/iIDVm_J-JxU?si=WRiLXASnXlqqidLi

For some reason the first one has kinda stuck with me.

You think youre thinking, but you’re mostly remembering. Your thoughts are just loops your nervous system finds familiar, your not making decisions, your repeating emotional echos. Unless you interrupt the loop your future is your past in disguise.

2025-08-17 Notes

2025-08-17T12:21:47Z

After a long time I begrudgingly setup window rules for hyprland. What I wanted was the ability to log out and jump back into work with a freshened work space. Right now I’m running on low ram and disk on hyprland and sometimes I need to just quit everything and get back to work quick. So I setup exec-once to start my terminal, browser, and chat. These are my main applications that run on my power fingers 456 (which are on a layer that present under jkl). I use them every time I log in and will need them no matter what I do. When I exec once them, they just dump onto one workspace, you can pick it but no matter the timing, you end up with race conditions that end up with you on different workspaces.

So I setup window rules. I avoided this for a long time, because of my workflow on awesomewm, I thought this manual workspace selection was superior. What I really think happened was that awesomewm was a little trickier for me to figure out what things were named and to actually get the rules setup correctly.

hyprland makes this pretty simple with its great cli.

hyprctl clients -j | jq | grep class

Now that I can see attributes of these windows as I open them I can set up rules for them to go onto the correct workspace, or to float them. I have a couple of things like a file picker coming from a browser showing up in the tiled layout, when a file picker like this shows up, just cover everything up its temporary, no need to squeeze it into the tiled layout.

the file picker float also fixed an issue I had where they would not show up, and lock up brave when its in full screen mode and I don’t realize it.

windowrulev2 = workspace 1, class:^(steam)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 4, class:^(kitty)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 5, class:^(firefox)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 5, class:^(brave-browser)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 5, class:^(google-chrome)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 6, class:^(Signal)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 2, class:^(krita)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 8, class:^(brave-chat.openai.com__-Default)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 8, class:^(brave-youtube.com__-Default)$
windowrulev2 = float, class:^(org.pulseaudio.pavucontrol)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 9, class:^(org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher)$
windowrulev2 = float, class:^(org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher)$, title:^(Console window.*)
windowrulev2 = float, class:^(xdg-desktop-portal-gtk)$

2025-08-16 Notes

2025-08-16T10:07:21Z

homelab-cleanup-day">HomeLab cleanup day #

remove nextcloud
pause photoprism
pause syncthing
move data to walkershare
filepermissions 1000:1000 all of it
organize how I want
resume photoprism
resume syncthing - update share locations
expose to mac over smb
ensure mac can write over smb
expose to archlinux oversmb
ensure archlinux can write over smb
expose to syncthing over pvc
expose to my terminal over pvc

wishlist

Forgejo repos
Forgejo runners
explore moving from docker repository to repoflow

2025-08-14 Notes

2025-08-14T20:15:54Z

Huge progress on shots not to be confused with shots inspired by https://justin.searls.co/shots/. I’m building out my own instagram grid design, right now its 4 wide, but I wonder if it should be 3 wide to match up with the old instagram grid designs, and I could do cool crops like instagram used to.

I went through a bunch of old gratitude posts and pulled images from all of them, and update all of the images to use dropper while I was at it.

More work after kids bed time and came up with a great concept that needs to go into markata, yes its more configuration. markata is quickly becoming death by config. What I wanted was the ability to make different cards different sizes.

What I came up with was adding “card_classes” to the front matter of the markdown file. This is a list of classes that will be added to the card div when the card is rendered. This way I can make cards different sizes. Here are a couple of good results I had.

A landscape shot of quarry lake

An image of Rhiannon and I at sunset

Made a bit of cyberbrink crane progress, glued in a few cables and put the cab on top of the tower.

2025-08-13 Notes

2025-08-13T21:23:24Z

Inspired by Justin Searls Shots, I made started my own shots feed for self hosted Instagram style photos. The layout could use a lot of work, the feed seems like its breaking on rebuild due to some cache issues, but its there and kind of works and eventually will get a proper prominently placed link, for now its an idea for anyone who sees this.

https://waylonwalker.com/shots/

By the way what a boss domain searls.co is. I’ve seen Chris Coyier just got coyer.com and talked about being able to use it as a family domain.

2025-08-12 Notes

2025-08-12T16:46:31Z

Sad day yesterday. We discovered that our freezer was left cracked over a day or so. Kids self serviced themselves to some sausage dogs at some point and wedged the box in the door. Everything was over 40F and done.

Lessons learned for everyone. For the kids, see something say something, food should not come out of a freezer soft and barely fridge temp. For the parents, don’t get in a rush when loading the freezer. If something doesn’t quite look like it’s going to stay out, it probably won’t and next person to use it will pay… Or you will pay when they don’t notice. Last lesson for everyone, when you come home late and tired from a family trip to Grandma’s and hear beeping it’s probably important and investigate.

I need some more ram… Was waiting out prime day, prices went up and haven’t gone down.

forgejo is pretty dope, played with it for awhile today locally, create repos with curl, git push, actions working with multiple runners.

2025-08-08 Notes

2025-08-08T19:28:06Z

This Web ain’t what it used to be #

I found this post from miriam.codes while reading dbushell’s notes. I kinda agree with Miriam and David here. AI is really making me feel like an old curmudgeon. Every day it gets more enshitified, filled with more nonsense, more hate, more “fake news” which all news gets labeled as these days, nothing is credible to anyone anymore.

What I’m here for is still plugging away at my own site, trying harder than ever to find real people with real websites, who write real content that I enjoy. I’m going to continue staying in my lane, making notes that no one will read, leaving thoughts no one will read, writing blog posts that might reach 10s of people who really care.

YouTube still feels like a safe place. I see more and more AI slop popping up and off, but it doesn’t hit my feed, happy for that so far. I do see a lot of creators using AI thumbnails, Most look obvious, but some feel like uncanny faces of the people I follow and it’s weird. I think I follow the exact average of the 2025 YT watcher, I watch a handful of the top 100 channels, and a bunch of sub 1M average joes. These all feel like people just sharing their story. A lot of them have Orange County Choppers Season 1 vibes, we are just making good content about trying to make it in the world. They haven’t yet descended into the madness that OCC became in its later seasons that was all about building drama that tore the family apart.

Moss Knight from hollow knight home row layout #

I took a break for awhile on the game, my son got bored and moved on. He tends to switch out games a lot faster than me. I came back to it tonight after a few months off and just got some geo from the moss knights for awhile. I got this decent clip of clearing them, I’m no pro, but getting better at timing on the keeb layout.

hollow-knight-keeb-moss-knight.mp4

Cyberbrick Crane Progress #

Made some progress on the cyberbrick crane that I am building with Wyatt.

2025-08-05 Notes

2025-08-05T09:00:57Z

Yesterday I started building out some qrcode tooling for myself starting with qrcode.waylonwalker.com. This is part of my tinyapps project.

Also dug into qr codes in python to try to get some easy and small qrcodes that I could add to my blog posts for others who find a post on desktop and want to open on mobile.

This is what I am going for with qrcodes on my blog posts.

If you want fancier qrcodes check out https://mydigitalharbor.com/

2025-07-27 Notes

2025-07-27T01:25:33Z

Today Wyatt and I conquered cathulu in Cat quest III.

cathulu.mp4

Which then lead us to finish Mama Milk’s quest line.

mama-milk.mp4

archlinux BTW devtainer #

Made some progress on moving my devtainer back from ubuntu to arch, it’s somewhat pertinent because a few of the things I use are now outdated and I just want to use a package manager and not have to build things from scratch.

Kubernetes Development Environment #

I also setup a dev environment in kubernetes, already using this new arch image, its great so far, writing this post from it.

As a challenge how much of my workflow could be done from kubernetes, docker build, and run would be hard, but I bet I could come up with something. The clipboard part of my workflow would need a major change, especially for grabbing previous terminal outputs.

2025-07-24 Notes

2025-07-24T20:58:17Z

Completed the 8-bit dungeon in Cat Quest III with wyatt today.

8-bit-dungeon.mp4

2025-07-23 Notes

2025-07-23T20:37:04Z

Today I set up hypridle on my hyprland desktop build. It was not too bad, I’m probably going to tweak it as it I go if it bothers me, for now I’m giving it a shot. My monitor is sometimes a PITA to get to wake up, that is my main concern.

paru -S hypridle

Here is the config I landed on.

# dim screen
general {
    lock_cmd = pidof hyprlock || hyprlock       # avoid starting multiple hyprlock instances.
    before_sleep_cmd = loginctl lock-session    # lock before suspend.
    after_sleep_cmd = hyprctl dispatch dpms on && ddcutil setvcp 10 100  # to avoid having to press a key twice to turn on the display.
}

listener {
    timeout = 120                            # in seconds.
    on-timeout = ddcutil setvcp 10 5 # command to run when timeout has passed.
    on-resume = ddcutil setvcp 10 100  # command to run when activity is detected after timeout has fired.
}

# screen off
listener {
    timeout = 3600
    on-timeout = hyprctl dispatch dpms off
    on-resume = hyprctl dispatch dpms on
}

# warning screen is about to go off
listener {
    timeout = 315                            # in seconds.
    on-timeout = notify-send "You are idle!" # command to run when timeout has passed.
}

listener {
    timeout = 330                            # in seconds.
    on-timeout = loginctl lock-session
}

learned about walker launcher and wev wayland event debgugger.

Ended the day destroying the duck of doom in cat quest III.

duck-of-doom.mp4

2025-07-22 Notes

2025-07-22T08:01:51Z

Waybar ricing #

  "format": "{:%a %b %d %I:%M %p}",

Next I ripped a calendar from the docs. When hovered I get a full year calendar, right click gives me only the current month.

"clock": {
  "format": "{:%a %b %d %I:%M %p}",
  "format-alt": "{:%A, %B %d, %Y (%R)}  ",
  "tooltip-format": "<tt><small>{calendar}</small></tt>",
  "calendar": {
              "mode"          : "year",
              "mode-mon-col"  : 3,
              "weeks-pos"     : "right",
              "on-scroll"     : 1,
              "format": {
                          "months":     "<span color='#ffead3'><b>{}</b></span>",
                          "days":       "<span color='#ecc6d9'><b>{}</b></span>",
                          "weeks":      "<span color='#99ffdd'><b>W{}</b></span>",
                          "weekdays":   "<span color='#ffcc66'><b>{}</b></span>",
                          "today":      "<span color='#ff6699'><b><u>{}</u></b></span>"
                          }
              },
  "actions":  {
              "on-click-right": "mode",
              "on-scroll-up": "tz_up",
              "on-scroll-down": "tz_down",
              "on-scroll-up": "shift_up",
              "on-scroll-down": "shift_down"
              }
  }

I still want to change up the colors, but I’m happy with the usefulness of this for now.

2025-07-21 Notes

2025-07-21T20:30:21Z

In my adventure to rice out hyprland I set up a sddm theme today, and it looks sick by only changing the wallpaper. I tried out one theme and was pretty happy with the results.

Alright, I ended up ricing out some more, looks so much better than the default sddm theme.

Default sddm.

My only hiccup was the wallpaper needed to be in a path relative to the theme root directory and not an absolute path to my home directory.

This command was super helpful for testing greeter themes.

sddm-greeter-qt6 --test-mode --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/eucalyptus-drop