Waylon Walker
A home for software, side quests, and the weird little things worth keeping.
I write about software, self-hosting, keyboards, AI tools, and whatever odd project has my attention this week.
Longer posts live next to TILs, thoughts, pings, and shots so the site feels more like a workshop than a polished magazine.
Now
What has my attention #
A quick snapshot of what I am building, learning, and getting distracted by lately.
About
Why this site exists #
The blog, the garden, the notebook, and the reasons I still want my own place on the internet.
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How it is built #
Markata, markdown, homelab hosting, and the other questionable choices powering this place.
I've been thinking about this for awhile now. For years now, fuzzy pickers and last session have been my go to. They have served me well. I can typically...
Waylon Walker A home for software, side quests, and the weird little things worth keeping. I write about software, self-hosting, keyboards, AI tools, and...
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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:
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Browse
Start somewhere interesting #
- /archive/ for the chronological firehose
- /all/ for everything on one page
- /search/ when you know the shape of the thing you want
- /markata/ if you are here for the site generator
- /blog/analytics/ if you like peeking at the writing numbers
What this place is
Part blog, part digital garden, part notebook, part portfolio. I use it to think in public, keep track of what I am building, and make a home on the internet that feels more personal than a feed algorithm.
I keep forgetting about the double gutter problem with nested containers. When you put padding on a parent and the child also has padding, you get twice the spacing you wanted. The Problem ¶ .container { padding: 2rem; } .child { padding: 2rem; } Now your content is 4rem from the edge. Not what I meant at all. The Fix...
Like a dufus this morning I did a hard reset on a git repo for getting I was working on a manifest for. You see I generally use argo, but occasionally I have no idea what I am doing or want yet and I start raw doggin it, fully aware that I’m going to just nuke this namespace before getting...
I really wish I would have got this right a few years ago. Theres a couple of flags I had to use to get mdformat to do hard wraps at 80 characters and not wreck tables. This mix of flags and plugins is workign really well for me so far. mdfmt() { uvx \ --with "mdformat-ruff" \ --with "mdformat-beautysh" \...
Kids are leaving the party early, not drinking, cant watch netflix without the laptop open. They are leaving the party early to check on their agents. I get it, that feeling that you need to eek out one more prompt, keep your agents running. if they arent running what are you even doing. If not you 6 others are ready...
Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net It's wild how much of a hit Google took from killing reader, almost any time I hear about killedbygoogle, reader is the top of the list. Its the thing that we all remember being really good and the incumbants just did not…
Justin Searls @searls I need a new blog to subscribe to. Know any you think I'd like? E-mail me: [email protected] justin․searls․co · justin.searls.co Sent Justin my list https://go.waylonwalker.com/blogroll, will soon be on the main site, but right now its only on the go subdomain. I've long had reader.waylonwalker.com, but thats soon going to be wrapped into the main site as…