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Intro paragraph with ordinary strong, ordinary emphasis, ordinary highlight,, a normal link, and deleted text. Build good places for interesting people. Make room for the weird idea. # Some normal paragraph text between headings. Build a that feels yours. # More ordinary prose. Follow the small web, not the cr owd. # Make a perfect memorable site. # Leave space for strange little ideas. # Sometimes the obvious answer weird answer is the interesting one. # A good theme makes quiet words,, and loud words belong together. # A highlighted phrase can be long enough to wrap onto another line and test the highlight background. # Make a small corner of the web that feels like yours. # Chemistry should still work: H 2 O and x 2 # Keyboard syntax should still work: Ctrl + C #

drafted by kimi /style How I write and build this site. A personal style guide. Tone of Voice # Casually self-deprecating with technical credibility. I write like I’m talking to someone at a conference after-party, not a LinkedIn profile. It’s okay to poke fun at myself and my projects. “Under-funded, over-dreamed, barely documented” is a feature, not a bug. Principles: Use first person (“I”, “me”, “my”) Keep sentences punchy and direct Include real personal details and hobbies Show technical expertise without taking myself too seriously It’s okay to mention frustrations with mainstream tools Writing Rules # Formatting: No em-dashes. Use periods or commas instead No emoji 80 character hard wrap Double space between sentences Headers should be concise (2-4 words) Structure: Put code examples front and center Add brief context or “why this matters” even if just one sentence It’s okay to say “I use this when…” or “This saved me from…” Personal anecdotes add authenticity Technical terms ar…

A running list of blog post ideas to strengthen underrepresented topics on the site. Docker Posts # Building out Docker/containerization content to match the llms.txt claims. Existing Foundation # docker-deep-dive.md - unpublished notes from 2021 docker-minecraft-server.md - minecraft in docker modded-minecraft-in-docker.md - modded server setup emoji-in-headless-chrome-in-docker.md - headless chrome fix Suggested Posts # “Why I containerize my entire dev environment” - Philosophy post linking to the 2026 resolution about working from a distrobox image “Docker vs Kubernetes in the homelab: when to use what” - Standalone comparison post (referenced in right/wrong reasons posts) “My devtainer workflow: dotfiles in Docker” - Document the actual devtainer setup mentioned in llms.txt “Migrating from Docker Compose to Kubernetes with kompose” - Experience from the 6-months-in post, expanded Finish docker-deep-dive.md - Turn those 2021 notes into a published deep dive Distrobox Posts # Lighte…

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…

This post is a big work in progress, expect it to keep getting better. Initial Score # 404 Not Found, generate a page for each tag # Title too long # 404 Not Found, comma separated tags # Another hit on 404’s caused by tags, was tag parsing from thoughts into posts, this cause links to the full comma separated list of tags rather than one per tag. You can see on the website the whole dang set of tags was being treated as a single tag. Broken images # I’m not fully sure what happened to all of these gifs in my old host and why they didn’t show up, but I moved them all and they are solid now. I burned all of my January Credits # So I had an issue with my self hosted shots not making them fast enough for ahrefs, and essentially ddosing myself on one of their runs. The long wait times for images burnt all of my credits. Here was the next successful run with a HUGE improvement in overall score. The trend for errors is looking quite good. md files were Missing # I had several links out to th…

Here are a list of some cold builds from my site. I’ve ran this site for a long time and would like to have some references to go back to, and wish I had kept a few profiles of cold builds laying around to compare with. The time is now lets keep some cold build links around for reference. 01/27/2025 # https://ec314b08.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 429s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 has md_video open cache on every post issue https://27f117fd.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 112s- markata==0.9.0.dev5 after fixing md_video issue https://e6b8f64a.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 16s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 1 post not skipped, this one https://10b778b4.waylonwalker-com.pages.dev/_profile/ - 5.65s - markata==0.9.0.dev5 fully hot cache build with no changes

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…

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.

Over the past years couple of years blog traffic has been tanking, for some time I thought it might have just been me, but then i heard it from Dave Rupert on Shop Talk show, and it made sense. LLMs and AI is slowly killing the internet as we know it. My metrics # I dug into my emails from the google search console team and found two results nearly one year apart. Impressions are only 60% of its value a year ago while clicks are only 35% of where they were a year ago. I’m getting less impressions and even less clicks. Suspicions # What I think is happening is a large portion of users are getting their answers from ChatGPT, Copilot, and llms like this. A lot of my posts have been filling gaps in the internet, notes for myself when I struggle to integrate x in y because there was a gap of how to do so in the docs and stack overflow. Some small fraction of users have moved on to duck duck go and other non global warming search engines with AI in their results. Clicks are down even further…

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I registered waylonwalker.com and started making content for it in 2017 after a big industry downturn in 2016 that left me scared for what would happen if I were laid off. The company I was working for at the time did it’s first major downsizing in history sending many really good engineers out to look for new opportunities in a world flooded with many in the same situation. This was very similar to what happened to the tech industry in 2024. This was very similar to what happened to the tech industry in 2024. See Waylon Walker for more about me. What is this site? # It’s a blog Digital Garden Learn in public TIL portfolio my personal corner of the internet It’s [NOT]{.text-red-500.text-6xl.font-bold} Perfect # There will be mistakes I will learn Grammar will be fine, but never perfect Code will run on my machine, but not guaranteed to be perfect There will be days when the whole site is broken It started as a blog # This site started out as a [big B] It’s a digital garden # Somewhere…

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…