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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 Contributions
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/now
This page is meant to be simple view into what is happening in my life right now. Inspired by @NowNowNow . and Derek Sivers. Last Update 2025-05-22 14:27:47 Working on [[ninesui]] Working on [[krayt]] learning observability with grafana Fairly happy with [[markata]], 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-web-apps]] Doing a second run through [[hollow-kn
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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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markata
This post is a work in progress. Markata is the static site generator that I created to build my website [[ about-this-site ]]. I built it for me and I enjoy using it. I know everying it can do and I can extend it to do more easily. I have set it up for some friends to also use it and am proud that it helps them publish their content. It's a meme to create your own static site generator to make your website. Yes its funny, I don't recommend it if your not ready for the level of work that com
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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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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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gratitude
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