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!https://blakewatson.com/journal/blakewatson-com-turns-twenty/

<div class="embed-card embed-card-external"> <a href="https://blakewatson.com/journal/blakewatson-com-turns-twenty/" class="embed-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <div class="embed-card-image"> <img class="glightbox" src="/assets/images/og-image.png" alt="blakewatson.com turns 20 - blakewatson.com — I bought this domain as a college student using a friend’s credit card. Twenty years later, it’s one of the best decisions I&#39;ve ever made." loading="lazy"/ data-glightbox="description: blakewatson.com turns 20 - blakewatson.com — I bought this domain as a college student using a friend’s credit card. Twenty years later, it’s one of the best decisions I&#39;ve ever made."> </div> <div class="embed-card-content"> <div class="embed-card-title">blakewatson.com turns 20 - blakewatson.com</div> <div class="embed-card-description">I bought this domain as a college student using a friend’s credit card. Twenty years later, it’s one of the best decisions I&#39;ve ever made.</div> <div class="embed-card-meta">blakewatson.com</div> </div> </a> </div> <p>20 years is a long time to work on something, congrats Blake! So many great links to small web creators, why, and how to build your own site.</p> <p>As algos turn to shit the small web remains a space that cannot be ruined. There will always be rss feeds from real humans writing for other humans.</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="admonition-title">Note</p> <p>This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01" data-preview="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my...">thought</a>. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count="2" data-reading-time="3" data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a></p> </div> Waylon Walker hello@waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com/thought-306/ 2024-06-10T02:47:52Z 2024-06-10T02:47:52Z

!https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/25/blogmarks-that-use-markdown/

<div class="embed-card embed-card-external"> <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/25/blogmarks-that-use-markdown/" class="embed-card-link has-avatar has-avatar-before" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--favicon-url: url(&#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/simonwillison.net.ico&#39;);" data-favicon="/assets/markata/link-avatars/simonwillison.net.ico"> <div class="embed-card-content"> <div class="embed-card-title">Blogmarks that use markdown</div> <div class="embed-card-description">I needed to attach a correction to an older blogmark (my 20-year old name for short-form links with commentary on my blog) today - but the commentary field has always …</div> <div class="embed-card-meta">Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net</div> </div> </a> </div> <p>Oh I kinda like the name blogmark, as opposed to thoughts like I have chose for the same thing. Aparantly Simon beat me to the punch by 20 years on this one.</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="admonition-title">Note</p> <p>This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01" data-preview="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my...">thought</a>. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count="2" data-reading-time="3" data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a></p> </div> Waylon Walker hello@waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com/thought-305/ 2024-06-10T02:44:35Z 2024-06-10T02:44:35Z

!https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/9/a-link-blog-in-the-year-2024/

<div class="embed-card embed-card-external"> <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/9/a-link-blog-in-the-year-2024/" class="embed-card-link has-avatar has-avatar-before" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--favicon-url: url(&#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/simonwillison.net.ico&#39;);" data-favicon="/assets/markata/link-avatars/simonwillison.net.ico"> <div class="embed-card-content"> <div class="embed-card-title">A Link Blog in the Year 2024</div> <div class="embed-card-description">Kellan Elliott-McCrea has started a new link blog: Like many people I’ve been dealing with the collapses of the various systems I relied on for information over the previous decades. …</div> <div class="embed-card-meta">Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net</div> </div> </a> </div> <p>THIS! is the same reasons that I built <a href="https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com" style="--favicon-url: url(&#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/thoughts.waylonwalker.com.ico&#39;);" data-favicon="/assets/markata/link-avatars/thoughts.waylonwalker.com.ico" class="has-avatar has-avatar-before">thoughts</a>{.hoverlink}. Simon has bee a big inspiration along the way. He defintely changed the format of my posts as I watched him build out his quote posts.</p> <blockquote> <p>Link blogging is a pleasantly low-pressure way of writing online. Found something interesting? Post a link to it, with a sentence or two about why it’s worth checking out.</p> </blockquote> <p>Ditto! just make a post.</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="admonition-title">Note</p> <p>This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01" data-preview="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my...">thought</a>. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count="2" data-reading-time="3" data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a></p> </div> Waylon Walker hello@waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com/thought-304/ 2024-06-10T02:40:20Z 2024-06-10T02:40:20Z

!https://laughingmeme.org//2024/06/08/a-link-blog-in-2024.html

<figure> <a href="/static/https://laughingmeme.org//2024/06/08/a-link-blog-in-2024.html" class="glightbox-link"><img class="glightbox" src="/static/https://laughingmeme.org//2024/06/08/a-link-blog-in-2024.html" alt="https://laughingmeme.org//2024/06/08/a-link-blog-in-2024.html"/ data-glightbox="description: https://laughingmeme.org//2024/06/08/a-link-blog-in-2024.html"></a> </figure> <p>Kellan brings some interesting thoughts on where the internet is headed in 2024. Interestingly I see myself headed in a similar direction. Feeling like I know just enough to say fuck it and build my own platform for me to me me, from <a href="https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com" style="--favicon-url: url(&#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/thoughts.waylonwalker.com.ico&#39;);" data-favicon="/assets/markata/link-avatars/thoughts.waylonwalker.com.ico" class="has-avatar has-avatar-before">thoughts</a>{.hoverlink} where I link and make thoughts on posts like this, to <a href="https://reader.waylonwalker.com">reader</a>{.hoverlink} which is my rss reader replacement that I wanted in 2013 when it was <a href="https://killedbygoogle.com/" class="hoverlink has-avatar has-avatar-before" style="--favicon-url: url(&#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/killedbygoogle.com.png&#39;);" data-favicon="/assets/markata/link-avatars/killedbygoogle.com.png">killedbygoogle</a></p> <blockquote> <p>And particular with the collapse of the social spaces many of us grew up with, I feel called back to earlier forms of the Internet, like blogs, and in particular, starting a link blog.</p> </blockquote> <p>Ai has really had quite the two sided effect since chatgpt launched and set the world ablaze. Suddenly you can get any answer you want as a custom fit blog post for free without effort, thus killing the traffic to any of these sites.</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="admonition-title">Note</p> <p>This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01" data-preview="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my...">thought</a>. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count="2" data-reading-time="3" data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a></p> </div> Waylon Walker hello@waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com/thought-217/ 2024-03-15T14:42:30Z 2024-03-15T14:42:30Z

!https://shoptalkshow.com/605/

<div class="embed-card embed-card-external"> <a href="https://shoptalkshow.com/605/" class="embed-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <div class="embed-card-image"> <img class="glightbox" src="https://i0.wp.com/shoptalkshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Jim-Nielson.jpeg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1" alt="605: Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + AI, and Design Engineers — Jim Nielsen joins us to about URLs and linking as the new subversive way to maintain the web, paying for news in Canada, should content creators be worried about AI, the case for design engineers, …" loading="lazy"/ data-glightbox="description: 605: Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + AI, and Design Engineers — Jim Nielsen joins us to about URLs and linking as the new subversive way to maintain the web, paying for news in Canada, should content creators be worried about AI, the case for design engineers, …"> </div> <div class="embed-card-content"> <div class="embed-card-title">605: Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + AI, and Design Engineers</div> <div class="embed-card-description">Jim Nielsen joins us to about URLs and linking as the new subversive way to maintain the web, paying for news in Canada, should content creators be worried about AI, the case for design engineers, …</div> <div class="embed-card-meta">ShopTalk · shoptalkshow.com</div> </div> </a> </div> <p>An absolute fantastic episode about blogging, thinking about a web1.0 kind of world today, and what it means moving forward.</p> <p>Web 1.0 is robust, you own your own destiny, you own your data, you can do what you want. There is no platform to tell you what you can and cannot do. But the future web is stealing your data to build AI models, spam sites are duplicating your content and stealing your SEO. You may or may not care, but at the end whether you get traffic or now you own your web 1.0 sites.</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="admonition-title">Note</p> <p>This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01" data-preview="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my...">thought</a>. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count="2" data-reading-time="3" data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a></p> </div> Waylon Walker hello@waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com/thought-7/ 2023-07-28T14:59:37Z 2023-07-28T14:59:37Z

!https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33241050/trailing-slash-triggers-404-in-flask-path-rule

<div class="embed-card embed-card-external"> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33241050/trailing-slash-triggers-404-in-flask-path-rule" class="embed-card-link has-avatar has-avatar-before" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--favicon-url: url(&#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/stackoverflow.com.ico&#39;);" data-favicon="/assets/markata/link-avatars/stackoverflow.com.ico"> <div class="embed-card-content"> <div class="embed-card-title">External Link</div> <div class="embed-card-meta">stackoverflow.com</div> </div> </a> </div> <p>In flask apps I often get a 404 for routes with a trailing slash. This Stack Overflow post shows how to configure flask to allow trailing slashes on some or all routes.</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="admonition-title">Note</p> <p>This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01" data-preview="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my...">thought</a>. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count="2" data-reading-time="3" data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a></p> </div> Waylon Walker hello@waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com