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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...

Date: January 22, 2025

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 [1], more about that in the /colophon.

![screenshot-2025-01-31T21-23-13-643Z.png](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/7b6cf2c2-2299-4320-b58f-b0bebf2d0504.png)

## Total Posts over time

![Total Cumulative Posts Over Time](/total_posts_over_time.svg)

## Post Contributions in 2025

![Post Contributions in 2025](/contributions_2025.svg)

## Post Contributions in 2024

![Post Contributions in 2024](/contributions_2024.svg)

## 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 [2] on 7/22/2023
with this [first thought](https://waylonwalker.com/thoughts-2/).

![Post Contributions in 2023](/contributions_2023.svg)

> Notice the huge uptick that started immediately as shots was released

## Post Contributions in 2022

![Post Contributions in 2022](/contributions_2022.svg)

## Post Contributions in 2021

At the End of 2021 I started posting TIL [3]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 2021](/contributions_2021.svg)

## Post Contributions in 2020

![Post Contributions in 2020](/contributions_2020.svg)

## 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 [4]

![Post Contributions in 2019](/contributions_2019.svg)

## Post Contributions in 2018

This was the year I really started reaching for the terminal kicking off the
year with Vim Notes [5] and rounding out with 📝 Bash Notes [6]. 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 2018](/contributions_2018.svg)

## 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 2017](/contributions_2017.svg)

## 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.

![Post Contributions in 2016](/contributions_2016.svg)

References:
[1]: /markata/
[2]: /thoughts/
[3]: /til/
[4]: /kedro/
[5]: /vim-notes/
[6]: /bash/