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wants
Inspired by mara.town/wants want but do not enjoy New hardware that cannot be repaired Disciplining Children Nice landscaping which requires regular maintenance enjoy but do not want breakfast Fancy things Manual Labor in moderation Vacations to far away places
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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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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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/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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/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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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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