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tinyapps
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 I created are mostly chatgpt based, with a bit of hand edit after the fact, uploaded to minio and become an app on my k8s-pages !!! Note renamed The original title of this post was "Replacing Google Search Apps With Self Hosted Web Apps" I'm leaning on [[web-wakelock]] to keep the screen on while these apps are running, primarily clos, time
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ahrefs-cleanup-2024
This post is a big work in progress, expect it to keep getting better. Initial Score image 404 Not Found, generate a page for each tag image Title too long image 404 Not Found, comma separated tags Another hit on 404's caused by tags, was tag parsing from thoughts into posts, this cause links to the full comma separated list of tags rather than one per tag. image You can see on the website the whole dang set of tags was being treated as a single tag. image Broken images I'm not fully sure what h
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cold builds
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 kept a few profiles of cold builds laying around to compare with. The time is now lets keep some cold build links around for reference. screenshot-2025-01-31T21-23-56-725Z.png {.more-cinematic} 01/27/2025 https://ec314b08.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 429s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 has md_video open cache on every post issue https://27f1
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analytics
I've been posting on this site since 2016, when there was a huge rollout of layoffs at the company I was working at at the time. In fear of being laid off personal blog and side projects was at the top of the suggestions so off I I started looking at what I needed to do to start building my resume, having a went. This site is built on [[ markata ]], more about that in the [[ colophon ]]. screenshot-2025-01-31T21-23-13-643Z.png Total Posts over time Total Cumulative Posts Over Time Post Contribu
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/start
Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have {{ markata.feeds.archive.posts | length }} posts published, here are some links to help you get started around here. 2fcdafc0-f152-4fa9-ac91-799acd9084d3-239-1.webp {.more-cinematic} Feeds 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 ]] page. Slash posts [[ slashes ]] Slash pages {.hoverlink} are some evergreen pages that I will do my best
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/colophon
Colophon a page that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies Author Waylon Walker's Profile Picture All posts on this site are written by Waylon Walker , 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 [[ about ]] tech This site is a static site build with my own static site generator [[ markata ]], [[ thoughts ]] or as
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💠How I use Obsidian Templater
Here's my thought on 💠How I use Obsidian Templater Ok, second post on this one. I am sending only head requests, so I want to see the first request for the…
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💠How I use Obsidian Templater
Here's my thought on 💠How I use Obsidian Templater This is a test post. I just updated the chrome extension for thoughts to take a the thumbnail image on…
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💠How I use Obsidian Templater
Here's my thought on 💠How I use Obsidian Templater I really like this idea of keeping a set up contacts in a markdown repo, and being able to wikilink them…
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💠Damn, I love dropper already
Here's my thought on 💠Damn, I love dropper already Damn I'm loving using dropper already, I am able to copy paste images right into posts on thoughts. This…
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💠Dropper
Here's my thought on 💠Dropper Dropper is a place for me to drop files for quick posts like this. image !!! note This post is a thought . It's a short note…
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blogging in 2024
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 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 impressio
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Weeknote 0
Inspired by Simon Willison I'm starting a weeknotes retrospective post to recap the week. The theme this week has been learning and setting up obsidian to…
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latest
My latest blog post is [[ {{ markata.feeds.blogfeed.posts[0].slug }} ]]. Click the link if you are not automatically redirected.
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about this site
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 were laid off. The company I was working for at the time did it's first major downsizing in history sending many really good engineers out to look for new opportunities in a world flooded with many in the same situation. This was very similar to what happened to the tech industry in 2024. This was very similar to what happened to the tech
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feeds
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 your rss reader thats what this is for. !!! Note TLDR If you are looking for everything look here https://waylonwalker.com/archive/rss.xml All This is a feed of everything that I have published on my site to date. web rss til This is a feed of all of my TIL's (Today I Learned). These are generally short single topic posts that I write up
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Thoughts
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 thoughts.waylonwalker.com site. It's a fully dynamically rendered site 2000's style. Posts are stored in a database and instantly available. Almost all of the posts were written in a small field within a chrome extension that I built for it. These posts are intended to in two ways. One, link building for the author. I hope that I give the people helpi
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💠Twitter Requires full image_urls
Here's my thought on 💠Twitter Requires full image_urls Yet again twitter cards were causing me pain. This time it was me not realizing that they require…
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Links
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Automatically Generate a list of Markdown Links in...
Let's make a vim command to automatically collect all the links in these posts at the end of each article. Regex confuses the heck out of me... I don't have my regex liscense, but regex can be so darn powerful especially in an editor. Step one Before you run someone's regex from the internet that you don't fully understand, check your and make sure you are all clear with git before you wreck something Inspiration Something that I have always appreciated form Nick Janetakis is his links secti
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Uses
This is a listing of all the things that I use on a daily basis to build data pipelines, lead my team, and build this website. Installation Everything installed on my machines is done through ansible-playbooks. It's been a long transformation to get here, but its so satisfying to boot a brand new system, run a single command a have every single thing cofigured exactly to my liking. OS I run Ubuntu, it works well for me without too much fuss. For me the distribution does not really matter too m
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Waylon Walker
👋 Hi, I am Waylon Walker. Husband, Father of two, and creator things on the web, learning, and teaching others. I play lots of Minecraft, make art, and skate everyday with my kids. I finish the day binging episodes of Big Bang Theory with my wife. I believe in a decentralized platform where everyone has their own space on this internet to share their thoughts and ideas. I created my blogging platform from scratch to learn about building tools with pluggy and diskcache. I was frustrated with
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Sample
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Expand One Line Links
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 been using a snippet that puts HTML into the markdown. While this works, it's more manual/difficult for me does not look the best, and does not read well as Goals for new card The new card should be fully automated to expand with title, description, and cover image. Bonus if I am able to attach a comment behind it. fully automated card expa
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Thanks For Subscribing
✨ You're Awesome Thank you so much for subscribing to my newsletter. It's still early days, please let me know what you want to hear about, I would love to get the conversation started! My hope is that you find some wicked sweet content here and stay tuned for more, but if you dont like it you can opt-out at any time. What to expect Weekly inspirational message based on my experiences breaking into the industry monthly-ish message about what is going on new posts, life, updates Future annouce p