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21 posts latest post 2026-01-07
Publishing rhythm
Jan 2026 | 1 posts
![[None]] Yet again twitter cards were causing me pain. This time it was me not realizing that they require full urls, and not relative or abolute urls. This was not working <meta name="twitter:image" content="/shot/?path={{ request.url|quote_plus }}" content-type='image/png'/> This does work with a full url <meta name="twitter:image" content="https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/shot/?path={{ request.url|quote_plus }}" content-type='image/png'/> Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

Links

- twitter [1] - twitch [2] - github [3] - dev.to [4] - LinkedIn [5] - YouTube [6] References: [1]: https://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker [2]: https://twitch.com/WaylonWalker [3]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker [4]: https://dev.to/waylonwalker [5]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waylonwalker/ [6]: https://www.youtube.com/waylonwalker
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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 # [1] Before you run someone’s regex from the internet that you don’t fully understand, check your git status and make sure you are all clear with git [2] before you wreck something Inspiration # [3] Something that I have always appreciated form Nick Janetakis [4] is his links section. I often try to gather up the links at the end of my posts, but often end up not doing it or forgetting. Making a Links section # [5] Searchng through the internet I was able to find an article from Vitaly Parnas called vim ref links [6] that did almost exactly what I needed, except it was more complicated and made them into ref liks. Here is my interpretation of the code I took from Vitaly’s post. It makes a Links section like the one at the bottom of this post. function! MdLinks() $norm o## Links $norm o g/\[[^\]]\+\]([^)]\+)/t$ silent! '^,$s/\v[^\[]*(\[[^\]]+\])\(([^)]+)\)[^\[]*/* \1(\2)/g nohl endfunction command! MdLinks call MdLinks() So far ...

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. older editions # [1] [[ uses-2021 ]] Installation # [2] 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. # GET is available by default on Ubuntu GET waylonwalker.com/bootstrap | bash # For debian based systems without GET by default sudo apt install curl curl -F https://waylonwalker.com/bootstrap | bash OS # [3] I run Ubuntu, it works well for me without too much fuss. For me the distribution does not really matter too much, I’m more interested in what’s inside. Window Manager # [4] I use awesome wm. Awesome is a tiling window manager that alows me to navigate through 9 workspaces (technically called tags in awesomewm). I can script out certain applications...

Waylon Walker

Hi, Hello, I’m Waylon # [1] Husband, dad of two, and hobbyist builder of things on the internet. When I’m not wrangling data pipeline platforms or building web platforms, you’ll find me gaming [2] with my kids, making art, or skating around the neighborhood. Reliving my mechanical engineering days with my 3d printer. Winding down at the end of the day binge-watching Big Bang Theory with my wife. What I Do # [3] I’m a Senior Software Engineer who specializes in data pipelines and Python-based web platforms. I help teams turn messy data into reliable systems that actually work. Why I Built This Site # [4] from scratch I got tired of: - Build times that took forever - Node modules folders that became black holes - Bloated pages that took ages to load - SEO tools that felt like an afterthought So I built my own platform from scratch using pluggy and diskcache. It’s under-funded, over-dreamed, barely documented, and I love it. This site is my sandbox for learning, teaching, a...

Sample

title subtitle # [1] sub-subtitle # [2] sub-sub-subtitle # [3] sub-sub-sub-subtitle sub-sub-sub-sub-subtitle Glossary # [4] There is a glossary item in vibe coding [5] here and clippy [6]-no-simpy/" class="glossary-term" title=""Clippy no Simpy" is a term coined by Louis Rossmann, when people try to stand up for companies doing scummy things like charging your for features that you...">clippy no simpy. Now you don’t have to manually link to how to create a virtual environment [7] every time you mention virtual environments in any post that needs a virtual environment. Paragraph # [8] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor Hover me incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt...
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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 [1] 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 # [2] 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 expansion - Title - description - cover image Old Card # [3] If you can call it a card 🤣. This card was just an image wrapped in an anchor tag and a paragraph tag. I found this was the most consistent way to get an image narrower and centered in both GitHub and dev.to. <p style='text-align: center'> <a href='https://waylonwalker.com/notes/eight-years-cat/'> <img style='width:500px; max-width:80%; margin: auto;' src="https://images.waylonwalker.com/eight-years-cat.png" al...

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Llms

Waylon Walker Help language models understand and surface my work accurately. Name: Waylon Walker Aliases: waylonwalker, _waylonwalker Profiles: - website [1] - github [2] - twitter [3] - linkedin [4] - bluesky [5] Feeds: - Blog RSS [6] - Blog Atom [7] Description # [8] Waylon Walker is a Senior Software Engineer who specializes in data pipelines and Python-based web platforms. He runs a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster in his basement, built his own static site generator because he got tired of bloated Node modules, and writes about Python, Linux, neovim, and the intersection of tech and family life. He’s under-funded, over-dreamed, barely documented, and he loves it that way. Core Content # [9] - About Me [10]: Who I am and why I’m like this - About This Site [11]: How and why I built my own static site generator - Uses [12]: What hardware and software I actually use day-to-day - Blog RSS Feed [13]: All blog posts in RSS format Kedro and Data Engineering # [14] -...