Posts tagged: slash

/carry/

2026-03-27T16:35:40Z

EDC #

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 where near the bulk I had as a kid with my cargo pants decked out with everything I could possibly need.

I hold no attachment to anything in my EDC. Nothing on my person has sentimental value. Anything I carry can be lost, stolen, or destroyed at any point in time. I pick things of sufficient usable, utilitarian, quality sufficient to work. No extra fluff.

Google Pixel 6
Ridge Wallet
Olight Perun - Since April 2022
Civivi Qubit - Since March 2024 after my last one was donated to the Indianapolis Stadium
OpenFit Shokz

Rules #

lightweight
replacable
no emotional attachments
utilitarian
everything serves a purpose

My kit #

Photo taken March 2023

Phone #

Google Pixel 6

I will not get finance a new phone for the foreseeable future again. The last time I feel like I got a phone that felt like an upgrade was 2018 when I went to the Pixel 3. The pixel 6 and pixel 8 my wife has feel no different whatsoever to me. It’s become more of a tool that does its job, there’s no major upgrades really driving me to create more ewaste with new devices.

Wallet #

Ridge Wallet

A necessary evil that I still need. I keep as few of cards as necessary in it. This would be the worst thing in my kit to loose. Only because the time it would take to replace all of them. This one was a gift to replace my last leather wallet, and I see no reason for this one to ever need replaced. It’s much lighter and smaller, would not change that aspect.

Flashlight #

Olight Perun

When I became a homeowner I added a dedicated flashlight to my EDC. Its light and out of the way. It’s the only thing I’ve ever found useful to fit in the coin pocket of jeans, so I don’t even notice it. Compared to using a phone, its more powerful, easier to position on me with the clip on my shirt/pants, or magnetically to a metal surface for inspections/house work.

Knife #

Civivi Qubit

I’ve carried a knife since as long as I can remember, feels like 10 but probably more like 14 years old. Never anything fancy, a few knock off leathermans, a few Buck, Case, KaBar that I found on a bridge, and now 3 Civivis. I use them till they break or more commonly they get lent and not returned, or lost. This is the most utilitarian thing I keep, almost always kept razor sharp, used, abused, and put away dirty. Never used for prying, but used to cut anything it will cut no matter how hard it is on it. Its not to look pretty, show off, its purely a tool that I hold no attachment to.

Headphones #

OpenFit Shokz

Not my first choice in headphones, but they work. Headphones are probably the item of biggest churn and ewaste for me. Eventually I might pony up for something that is more durable and repairable, but headphones just don’t last forever before they stop working for me. This latest pair was a pair my wife chose to try and did not like. They sat in a drawer for a year or so until I started carrying them.

/verify

2026-02-24T10:36:57Z

Inspired by @mollywhite’s verify slashpage. This page serves as the system of record for my online identity. The best places to follow me are:

My Website: waylonwalker.com
YouTube: Waylon Walker
YouTube Gaming: Waylon Walker Gaming
Twitch: Waylon Walker
Twitter: @_WaylonWalker
LinkedIn: Waylon Walker
GitHub: WaylonWalker
Dev.to: Waylon Walker
Bluesky: @waylonwalker.com

/top4

2026-02-11T14:00:00Z

Definitive ranked lists of my top 3 favorites plus an honorable mention.

Terminal Tools #

neovim - modal editing changed how I think about text
tmux - terminal sessions that survive disconnects and allow me to hop between projects at the speed of thought.
k9s - S tier tui interface that all tuis should strive for

Honorable mention: ipython

Python Tools #

pandas - This is what got me out of corporate spreadsheets and back into code/software.
kedro - data pipelines with opinions I agree with
fastapi - my favorite python web framework

Honorable mention: typer - fast cli apps

Games to Play with Kids #

multiplayer

Minecraft - infinite creativity, modding potential
Wobbly Life - Open World Co-op
Stardew Valley - cozy, collaborative farming

Honorable mention: Terraria - 2d world builder

Games to Play Alone #

singleplayer

Hollow Knight/Hollow Knight Silksong - S tier 2d platformer with adventure, mystery, lore, boss fights.
Session Skate Sim - The best skate sim
Animal Well - epic 2d platformer with the most incredible graphics at 320p ever created and the deepest puzzles Ive seen

Honorable mention: Portal

Inspired by topfour.net and slashpages.net

/yep

2026-02-11T12:00:00Z

Inspired by @fyrio’s yep slashpage, a list of S tier things I enjoy, use, recommend, want to know more about, or seek out in no particular order, updated as I think about it.

Seealso

/nope

Inspired by @baty's nope slashpage, a list of ** things I don't like, don't care, avoid, overhyped, or won't do in no particular order, updated as I think...

Feb 11, 2026

/yep #

coffee
small web 1.0
RSS
minecraft
Hollow Knight
Silksong
terminals
python
vim keybindings
self-hosting
open source
running kubernetes in my basement
mechanical keyboards
markdown
data engineering
Woodworking
Fingerboarding
Darts
Skateboarding
Biking
Trampoline
3d printing

/nope

2026-02-11T12:00:00Z

Inspired by @baty’s nope slashpage, a list of F tier things I don’t like, don’t care, avoid, overhyped, or won’t do in no particular order, updated as I think about it.

Seealso

/yep

Inspired by @fyrio's yep slashpage, a list of ** things I enjoy, use, recommend, want to know more about, or seek out in no particular order, updated as I...

Feb 11, 2026

/nope #

roblox
mobile games
telemetry
Windows
VSCode
allow notifications
subscription hell
ads
social media
clickbait
WYSIWYG editors particularly ones that use proprietary non text formats
politics
short form video

Ai

2026-01-11T13:48:43Z

Last updated Jan 2026.

Seealso

Looking for all posts tagged with ai see [[ tag/ai ]]

Ai is a tool I use a lot for code generation, research, image generation, and debugging. The words I publish on this site are my own unless explicitly stated from the top. There’s only one or two posts in this category.

Words are mine #

The core of what this blog is, is my thoughts ideas, sharing experiences. The words are the important part. They are not perfect, I often do not spell or grammer check, and what is here is from a flow state of writing and very often not refactored.

No AI unless explicitly stated

code gen #

Up till around 2023 all of the code to create the site was hand written by me. I have my own site generator that I maintain markata.

From 2023 through 2025 snippets of code, sometimes entire plugins or modules were created in chat apps like chatgpt. There was no agentic coding, windsurf, cursor, claude code, opencode, none of it. It was all integrated into the site by hand.

Starting around Dec 2025 I was finding freely available agents through tools like opencode to be more and more useful, making less mistakes, doing better at getting context and making changes. The flow is relying on heavy planning and issue reporting.

image gen #

I really got into stable diffusion as it came out. I thought it was fascinating to generate different kinds of images of things that I would otherwise have no ability to create, for a long time I was generating images for every post. I’ve moved on from doing it for every post, but still do it occasionally.

I’m not an artist, sometimes I like to include art that I would not otherwise be able to. Most of the art you see on a post is AI generated, and may not be called out.

Techbrophobic #

I feel this term strongly. I find ai tooling useful, but the industry and hype bros bring a bad taste.

The tools do not not do everything right, you still have to think, watch its output. You have to put the work in to do proper software engineering. Its not a magic pill, but it has the ability to implement ideas, plans, very quickly.

Also the whole industry creeps me out. The theft that happened to get here was wrong. AI shovoled into everything as slop sucks. The stock market pump is sus.

wants

2025-05-27T21:01:14Z

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

tinyapps

2025-05-22T14:31:29Z

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

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, timer, and stopwatch.

Clock #

A large displya clock.

Timer #

A simple timer that counts down from thet set time.

Stopwatch #

This is the one that inspired it all, I need to run a few stopwatches at work, and chose to just do it right in the google search with a few tabs running.

Dice #

A simple dice roller, this one is the one that I decided to start adding ? for help.

UUID #

It displays a uuid, thats it. ctrl + c to copy.

b64 #

Today i spent some time on b64, it is a base64 decoder/encoder. Just start tying to enter text, or paste, escape to deselect the text box, d to decode, e to encode, ? for help. It took a bit to get all of the keymaps right with the differnt modes and make sure that for instance you don’t keep typing in the input box while in help mode, or decode/encode while in the input box.

PocketCal #

This one is not mine, it’s made by Cassidy Williams), but is within the ethos and deserves a mention here. Its a single page calendar that is a static site completely rendered on the front end, data is stored in the url as you interact with it. None of your data goes to a server.

qrcode #

Today I wanted to finish an article that I was on afk and It killed me to get it from my work computer to my phone, so I made a qrcode generator. Paste in or type in your message and it shows up as a qr code live. This one needed an event listener for window resize since the library creates a rigid canvas qr code that does not fit on the screen once you create it then resize the window.

I even added query params to pass hex codes in for color and bg.

analytics

2025-01-22T08:36:27Z

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.

Total Posts over time #

Post Contributions in 2025 #

Post Contributions in 2024 #

Post Contributions in 2023 #

2023 was a very busy year for me and I started slowing down. About mid year I felt like I had a lot that I wanted to get out, but felt like I couldn’t, because I did not have the time to blog, so I added Thoughts on 7/22/2023 with this first thought.

Notice the huge uptick that started immediately as shots was released

Post Contributions in 2022 #

Post Contributions in 2021 #

At the End of 2021 I started posting [[ til ]]s daily for a few months. This is the point when I really started lowering the barrier to entry to make a blog post. A blog post did not need to be a super long essay, but could be the size of a tweet.

Post Contributions in 2020 #

Post Contributions in 2019 #

2019 was a huge learning year for me. I was very busy leading a migration to the cloud, containerized data pipeline orchestration, and setting up new projects and templates using Kedro

Post Contributions in 2018 #

This was the year I really started reaching for the terminal kicking off the year with Vim Notes and rounding out with 📝 Bash Notes. I had been watching luke smith for a awhile, and started managing my first linux server at work. I was stuck with windows at the time, but wsl was a new thing that let me run linux in the terminal.

Post Contributions in 2017 #

2017 was the year of getting started, I was coming up on 5 years into my career, and layoffs were happening hard at the time. I remember fist landing 5 years before and being told in the companies long history they have never laid off engineers, it was a very safe place to be. This was a wake up call that it might all turn around and I would take nothing with me. Blogging became my way to document things I was learning, it was making be better at communicating, and giving me a reason to take a deeper dive into interesting topics.

Post Contributions in 2016 #

2016 was the year that I created my github account, and really got serious about career switching from Mechanical Engineering to Software Engineering. All of my 2016 posts are back-dated github stars.

/now

2025-01-12T21:07:12Z

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 2025-10-29

Silksong has my attention, it’s great
Working on new features for dropper
- Vibe coding sucks
- Images will soon be able to be resized and be more efficient over the network.
Trying to branch out and add more than software to the blog. Things like design and 3d printing.

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 knight home row layout
Also second run of animal well
put a pause on the thps gap project Posts tagged: thps-gaps
working on a split version of my keyboard

Last update Fri Jan 31 08:43:10 PM CST 2025

Heavy Focus in on markata, upcoming markata search and Markata DidYouMean
Moving from Arch to Bazzite, I’m fully here but making everything just that much smoother in a container based world.
kubernetes - trying to get better
k8s in the homelab - All of my services I run in my homelab are currently k8s, trying to make it all smooth and consistent
k8s in the blog, I’m building this static site in k8s and its never been better.
learning agentic workflows - I’m trying to build out a few side projects minimally touching the code and only instructing windsurf
mostly-one-shot-apps - I just built nvim-manager as a mostly one-shot-app (i.e. the app was nearly v1 out of the first prompt)
markata plugins with chatgpt project using rag - analytics - tag aggregator
Family focus - we beat trailmakers a night of rounds

/start

2025-01-03T10:49:47Z

Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have 3598 posts published, here are some links to help you get started around here.

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 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 - Husband, dad of two, and hobbyist builder of things on the internet.
Ai - Last updated Jan 2026.
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…
/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 - Colophon a page that describes how the site > is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies
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…
markata - This post is a work in progress.
<a href="/nope/" class=“wikilink” data-title="/nope" data-description=“Inspired by @baty's nope slashpage, a list of ** things I don't like, don't care, avoid, overhyped, or won't do in no particular order, updated as I think…” data-date=“2026-02-11”>/nope - Inspired by @baty's nope slashpage, a list of ** things I don't like, don't care, avoid, overhyped, or won't do in no particular order, updated as I think…
/now - This page is meant to be simple view into what is happening in my life right now. Inspired by @NowNowNow. and Derek Sivers.
/start - Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have posts published, here are some links to help you get started around here.
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…
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…
/top4 - Definitive ranked lists of my top 3 favorites plus an honorable mention.
/verify - Inspired by @mollywhite's verify slashpage. This page serves as the system of record for my online identity. The best places to follow me are:
wants - Inspired by mara.town/wants
/yep - Inspired by @fyrio's yep slashpage, a list of ** things I enjoy, use, recommend, want to know more about, or seek out in no particular order, updated as I…

/colophon

2025-01-02T10:21:23Z

Colophon a page that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies

Author #

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 Waylon Walker

tech #

This site is a static site build with my own static site generator markata, Thoughts or as Simon Willison calls it a link blog posts are pulled in as a regular posts, all is hosted on cloudflare pages.

markata
Thoughts
cloudflare pages

see more about these components in about this site

Analytics #

I do not track users, I respect the privacy of my readers and do not track their information. I do track analytics on my own writing a post rate. Its more of an interesting history of the site.

meta #

Some evergreen pages that are more about me or this site from the Posts tagged: meta feed.

markata

2024-05-30T13:45:54Z

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 comes with it, but at the end of the day it’s very rewarding and a great way to learn.

Static Sites were all the rage #

JAMStack was 🔥

Gatsby and Next.js hit the scene as the next generation of static site builders and were getting big around the time I started building my site in 2017. They were based on react. I dove into react and learned it enough to build my website, but I really lacked the depth of knowledge in the js ecosystem to really work on it effectively. For instance when it got slow, it was hard for me to profile and find out why. What I really wanted was my site written in python, which I knew the ecosystem for very well, but I did not find the existing site generators easy to extend to do the things I needed. Naively I thought it would be easier to just build my own than learn how to make one do what I wanted it to. Not invented here syndrome hitting hard.

In their Defense

I really lacked the depth of knowledge in the js ecosystem to really work on

it (gatsby) effectively.

Plugins all the way down #

I started building this as I dove deeper into the Kedro framework for Data Engineering pipelines. They use a plugin framework for allowing users to extend it called pluggy. I had a great experience extending kedro using pluggy and wanted to build something with based on pluggy when I had started markata.

A Minimal Pluggy Example

feeds

2024-04-02T20:01:44Z

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. This one might feel like it has some extra noise with multiple posts per day, including starts, and instagram style posts, for a bit less look at the [[ main ]] feed.

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 including Posts tagged: blog, [[ til ]], Thoughts, [[ stars ]], Posts tagged: shots, [[ pings ]].

Main #

Like the All feed, but drops the shots (instagram style posts) and stars (github stars).

til - daily(ish) #

think gist with a tweet

This is a feed of all of my TIL’s (Today I Learned). These are generally short single topic posts that I write up quickly. They are generally things that are fairly new to me, often things that I struggled to find support for on the internet, and felt that It needed yet one more article with my voice.

shots - daily(ish) #

think Instagram

This feed is a collection of images, sometimes I post a few a day, sometimes a few weeks will go by, it really just depends on what I have going on.

pings - daily(ish) #

think tweet

These are ephemeral thoughts that pop in my head and I post as they occur. Maybe inspired by something I see or hear, but typically no more context is provided. I hate how social media has become very much trigger engagement bait… This is adjacent to that, but I try to be less hard on the bait.

Thoughts - daily+ #

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 <textarea> 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 helping me out along the way just a little bit of a boost. Two, they serve as a permanant commented bookmark for me to search, and come back to later when I have forgotten where I have seen something.

stars #

I pull in all of my github stars into one feed pesos style.

Recent #

This is a shorter version of All, as it is filtered down to only the posts created within the last 30 days.

Blog - weekly/monthly #

These are my full big B Blog posts. They are what I started writing, typically take a bit more time to put together. I write fewer of them these days than I used to. I’d like to think that they are the more polished posts of the bunch.

Today #

These are only the posts that went live the day that the site last built. If my scheduled builds keep working as intended they are today’s posts.

Python #

These are all the posts related to the python programming language.

Linux #

These are all the posts related to linux.

vim #

These are all the posts related to the greatest way to edit text, vim.

Careful, you might not make it out

kedro #

These are all the posts related to the python data engineering framework kedro.

gratitude #

I used to do daily gratitude posts, I might get back into it.

Thoughts

2024-04-01T16:14:47Z

All thoughts posts cross posted to my site are prefixed with a thought balloon 💭.

The tech #

Since this blog is mostly a tech blog about software development, and my journey as I learn, lets talk tech.

python
fastapi
htmx
sqlite
docker
https://fly.io

fastapi #

The core of the site is a python web server running fastapi. Most of the endpoints return html via jinja templates to the browser and json to anything else. So you go to the list of posts at [https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/posts/waylonwalker/?page_size=9999999999 in](https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/posts/waylonwalker/?page_size=9999999999 in){.hoverlink} a web browser it will be a rendered feed, but from curl you will get json.

htmx #

The main page is an infite scrolling feed of the posts. All loaded in with htmx. Which just works so beautifully for this. I really like python its my jam, I can make endpoints that return things out of a database very effectively with it, but it takes me some time to do the js side, htmx just makes these common patterns available right in html.

sqlite #

The data storage is a sqlite database using the sqlmodel orm. This was my very first time using sqlmodel, which is an ORM built on top of pydantic. It works really well with fastapi. The only thing that it lacks is the same history, community, and stack overflow posts that sqlalchemy has.

docker #

Docker is my go to way for containerizing web applications. I know it really well and makes it easy to build and deploy on a number of platforms.

https://fly.io #

I have this running on https://fly.io. Its my first real production application running on https://fly.io, and its been great for me. It runs my container for me, gives me tools to scale, and ssh right into the running container. It’s still free for the time being, but goes up quick for my cheap taste if I were to scale it up much.

Id highly recomend it if you have a server that you want to get running on the public internet, and you don’t want to manage any of your own infrastructure.

Waylon Walker

2021-11-20T10:38:00Z

Hi, Hello, I’m Waylon #

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 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 #

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 #

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, and sharing ideas on my own terms.

Infrastructure #

Because apparently I don’t have enough hobbies, I also run this site from a Kubernetes cluster in my basement. Nothing says “I love DevOps” like maintaining your own bare-metal cluster just to host a static blog.

Explore #

Curious about the tech? Check out about this site for my philosophy on this space, or /colophon for the full stack breakdown.

Meta Pages #

Evergreen pages about me and this site:

Posts tagged: slash

/carry/

EDC #

Rules #

My kit #

Phone #

Wallet #

Flashlight #

Knife #

Headphones #

/verify

/top4

Terminal Tools #

Python Tools #

Games to Play with Kids #

Games to Play Alone #

/yep

/yep #

/nope

/nope #

Ai

Words are mine #

code gen #

image gen #

Techbrophobic #

wants

want but do not enjoy #

enjoy but do not want #

tinyapps

Clock #

Timer #

Stopwatch #

Dice #

UUID #

b64 #

PocketCal #

qrcode #

analytics

Total Posts over time #

Post Contributions in 2025 #

Post Contributions in 2024 #

Post Contributions in 2023 #

Post Contributions in 2022 #

Post Contributions in 2021 #

Post Contributions in 2020 #

Post Contributions in 2019 #

Post Contributions in 2018 #

Post Contributions in 2017 #

Post Contributions in 2016 #

/now

/start

Feeds #

Slash posts #

/colophon

Author #

tech #

Analytics #

meta #

markata

Static Sites were all the rage #

Plugins all the way down #

More Posts #

feeds

All #

Main #

til - daily(ish) #

shots - daily(ish) #

pings - daily(ish) #

Thoughts - daily+ #

stars #

Recent #

Blog - weekly/monthly #

Today #

Python #

Linux #

vim #

kedro #

gratitude #

Thoughts

The tech #