About Harry Roberts – CSS Wizardry
csswizardry.com [1]
I’ve only recently learned what colophon means, and I really like to read through site that use it. If you don’t know its about how the site is built. I’ve always liked peeking under the hood of things to understand how they work, it’s what turned me towards an engineering degree.
I love how he mentions that he chose the name when he was 17 and he is stuck with it. I particularly like the name, it has something special to it. Hats off to you for doing something that has lasted so long for you. I fully understand though, I have projects that I made a year ago that I think why did I name it that. At the same time when I try to think of a name I end up with the I don’t have anything good and I’d rather build the thing so fuck it, its going to be what it is.
References:
[1]: https://csswizardry.com/about/#section:colophon
Publishing rhythm
Using Obsidian as a Gaming Backlog Library
How to use Obsidian as a gaming backlog library. Get a long-lasting overview of games you want to and have played.
Bryan Hogan · bryanhogan.com [1]
Very interesting way to catalog games, I need to make a catalog of mine, I’ll probably start adding some blog entries for games I’m in and have completed. Wonder if there is a way to hook into steam with python to get achievements and progress live.
References:
[1]: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/obsidian-gaming-backlog
[1]@csswizardry [1]) — 📡 I’ve been writing a lot lately. I’ve also dusted off my RSS reader. Send me your feeds! Mine is at csswizardry.com/feed.xml
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Harry Roberts (@csswizardry [2])
📡 I’ve been writing a lot lately. I’ve also dusted off my RSS reader. Send me your feeds! Mine is at csswizardry.com/feed.xml
https://csswizardry.com/feed.xml
Bluesky Social · bsky.app
Tons of cool people came out with their rss feeds here, again will need to browse more closely later.
References:
[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/csswizardry.com/post/3lckq4qo6zs22
[2]: https://csswizardry.com
[1]
Sturobson has a ton of rss feeds here, I recognize quite a few, will definitely need to poke at some of these later.
References:
[1]: /static/https://github.com/sturobson/myRSS/blob/master/personal-blogs.xml
Own Your Web
Own Your Web is a newsletter by Matthias Ott about designing, building, creating, and publishing for and on the Web. Every other week, I send out an exclusive email full of actionable insights, bes...
buttondown.com [1]
I’m a sucker for good own your own shit on the web blogs, and Matthias Ott has a top notch one here. The archive has been a great read so far, I’ve discovered things like slashpages.net.
References:
[1]: https://buttondown.com/ownyourweb
Fork Around And Find Out | Remaining Authentic in Retirement with Kelsey Hightower
Retirement is about the journey, not the destination. For Kelsey Hightower, it’s been an epic journey. On our debut episode of the Fork Around and Find Out Podcast (and much to Autumn’s elation...
share.transistor.fm [1]
What a great first guest for FAFO. Kelsey is always such a great listen. He talks about killedbygoogle and how engineers get no incentive to work on old projects, google had no incentive, and you got the thing for FREE in the first place. He talks about end of career and having love you money, having so much in the bank you can say no. If you are presented with a project that does not align with your values you can say no.M
Justin even mentions how Google has more killedbygoogle projects than Amazon has total projects.
If we knew how hard it would be, we would never build it.
Autumn’s Fav quote from ep1 of shipit
References:
[1]: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a9e41e15
/start
Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have
3724 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]
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…
- /colophon - Colop...
slow nfs performance
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...
Changelog
Maker of web things, sticker merchant, viral toot-based business man, blogger, podcaster, and pizzaiolo. Human dad.
rknight.me [1]
Well done changelog with some really good inspirational nuggets. Many slash pages I want to check out and an 11ty contribution graph.
References:
[1]: https://rknight.me/log/
slash pages
A guide to common pages you can add to your website
slashpages.net [1]
A nice list of slashpages you might want to consider including / aliasing / 301ing. These feel like nice things to setup and keep in the back pocket for obsidian style wiki link to easily. I get kinda bad at wiki-linking as much as I would like to, mostly because it does require some amount of work to make the page, and keep it up to date over time, then remember that you even have it.
Some are serious, some very common, some quite useful.
[2]
References:
[1]: https://slashpages.net/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/ba4edf27-03d4-49ff-ab4e-712e9ab8acda.webp
/colophon
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 ...
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Theo does a fantastic history of serverless here.
Kubernetes shit # [1]
Theo can’t have an infra video without shitting on k8s. Specifically people who have never touched k8s pushing fear of k8s to large audiences of people who have never touched k8s. If you are a webdev who solely lives in webdev space and never touches as much as a dockerfile listen to him. If you touch infra at all try it before you take his opinion at face value.
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Serverless shines in high variance # [3]
If you plan on having traffic spikes 10x your regular traffic for something like black friday, serverless might be right for your use case.
stateless programming # [4]
He argues that targeting a stateless deployment of serverless leads to better code. I’d like to see more examples here. Maybe most of the code bases I work on already do this. I’ve never targeted a serverless deployment, but I’ve targeted horizontally scaled deployments many times and they feel like they have the same targets. For instance if I spin up 8 pods for my application or uvicorn with 3 workers I have to target statelessness, all of the state must live in the database and cannot live in memory. Even if I target 1 instanc...
linkding
A self-hosted bookmarking service that is designed to be minimal, fast and easy to set up.
linkding · linkding.link [1]
linkding looks like an interesting alternative to thoughts. Thoughts is focused on the note being a value add tweet length blog post that you share to the public. This seems more focused on fire and forget with some note taking and search ability. I should definitely level up the search and tag discovery in thoughts.
References:
[1]: https://linkding.link/
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cool video on expanding vim with cli.
piping commands into vim # [1]
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write a healthcheck # [3]
[4]
References:
[1]: #piping-commands-into-vim
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/4283e98a-9b12-4f8a-9799-a097d5f3184d.webp
[3]: #write-a-healthcheck
[4]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/d90a8c88-4748-4dfe-8569-b51c023c825b.webp
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Lane from boot.dev madde this fantastic video about serving files on the internet. It has me wondering if I need to rethink a few of my things that I have built. I have a few things I am serving media from, but I have very aggressive cloudflare cache rules on them, so each file should only be uploaded about once per year.
My problem going straight out of minio right now is how do i set headers for cache control on it. If I can’t set the cache control and everything is coming out of minio this does not solve my problems.
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I went back and played with presigned urls and you can in fact control and set response headers, this is definitely the way and I have been wrong.
curl with partial files
Back in September 2023, we extended the curl command line tool with a new fairly advanced and flexible variable system. Using this, users can use files, environment variables and more in a powerful...
daniel.haxx.se · daniel.haxx.se [1]
This is a cool new feature coming to bash, I can’t think of a use case I have out of the gate, but it looks cool. I’m thinking this might be good to keep in the back pocket for something like CI where I don’t have a hightly tuned bashrc file, and I want a dynamic curl request based on some state that exists as a fille.
References:
[1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/30/curl-with-partial-files/
The beautiful sentence that is the web
A metaphor for the building blocks of web development.
cassidoo.co [1]
Nicely worded Cassidy! Javascript can be too much, it can bog down low powered devices, we can ship so much that its untenable on poor connections. It can be argued that its a bad language and putting it on the server is a mistake, but it brings sites to life. It makes it possible to extend the static nature of html [2]/css with just a little special spice only your site needs.
I’d add to the argument that a lot of js should go away over time. Over time libraries such as jquery have fallen out of use, not because they are bad, or have been replaced by new libraries, but because the browser has adopted most of the functionality that jquery brought.
As a primarily python dev I’d really like to see htmx [3] die a very similar graceful death. There have been several iterations on this idea, and the crux of it is very similar, give the ability to use HTTP verbs right inside html with some instruction of when to apply them and what to apply them to.
No js should not go away, it never will, we will always find new patterns that the browser should take, sites will always n...
Teleport to coop partner
Hello,
Is there a command where you can teleport to your coop partner? Or is it just this Follow button in chat? :)
Hypixel Forums · hypixel.net [1]
/p warp will warp your party to your current server in hypixel skyblock
[2]
References:
[1]: https://hypixel.net/threads/teleport-to-coop-partner.2250505/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/a4f5be07-5f79-450c-a40d-1f48ac086e05.webp
External Link
stackoverflow.com [1]
Today I learned how to configure the baseurl for htmx [2] using the tag. This is pretty handy to be able to configure different baseurls.
<base href="<scheme>://<netloc>/api/v1/">
<button hx-post="clicked"
hx-trigger="click"
hx-target="#parent-div"
hx-swap="outerHTML">
Click Me!
</button>
References:
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69456875/how-to-configure-base-url-for-all-requests-using-htmx
[2]: /htmx/
Addy Osmani (@addyosmani.bsky.social)
Tip: Chrome DevTools can override the content of Fetch/XHR requests! Useful for mocking APIs without waiting on backend changes.
Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1]
WTF, you can just change a server response from devtools and update a vuejs app? Just tried with htmx [2], and my GET requests are not showing up in the sources tab. I’ll keep this in my back pocket for next time I’m supporting a vuejs app though.
References:
[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/addyosmani.bsky.social/post/3lei5jhkgdk2k
[2]: /htmx/