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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 # 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…

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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 platfor…

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

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

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 ar…

There is no such thing as magic Be ready to roll back live deployments If CI was too fast be suspicious Always be available after a release. No one wants to read your slop, if you are too lazy to write it don’t send it. Tech will always fail, we only have some control over blast radius strive for a blameless culture Need a tool Make a tool Recognize the right idea when you hear it. Always carry a knife One Breath at a time Let Glue Dry Obsess over quality. blocking others is a p0 creating process is a cardinal sin

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 clankers writing all of the code

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 ent…

I’ve been posting on this site since 2016, when layoffs were rolling through the company I worked for at the time. Starting a personal blog and a pile of side projects felt like one of the best things I could do for my resume, so off I went. This site is built on markata, more about that in the /colophon. The old version of this page embedded static SVGs from my Python Markata build. Those files are gone in the site, so this page now renders the yearly posting history directly from the current content set. Post Contributions All Time Monthly # Contribution Graph Error: Invalid JSON configuration Post Contributions in 2026 # 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 st…

This page is meant to be simple view into what is happening in my life right now. Inspired by @NowNowNow. and Derek Sivers. testing md.waylonwalker.com to trigger builds, second time is a charm, testing new deploy testing build in prod again now is it fast? 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 pro…

Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have 3893 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 # 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 layoffs were rolling through the company I worked for at the time. Starting a personal blog and a pile of… /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 w…

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.

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 har…

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]]. web rss Main # Like the All feed, but drops the shots (instagram style posts) and stars (github stars). web rss 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…

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 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. web rss 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…

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. Infra…