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pesos

Pesos is the act of Publish Elsewhere Syncicate to Own Site. It is an indieweb concept that I recently started applying to my own site.

here does it skip again

In short it is the concept of pulling data from other sites that you use and republishing it to your own site. This gives a single source of information for you, and protection against sites and apis changing or rug pulling. Other people might have a lot more use cases for this, but I already begin a lot of my data right on my site.

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hover z-index and positioning

I broke my sick wikilink hover recently in a refactor, today I did some diving in to figure out what happened.

As you can see in the screenshot below, the link is in a list of links, and when the hover image pops up it sits behind all of the other text. The z-index of the list-item is supposed to be raised above the others on hover.

Manually setting z-index to 20 in the inspector I noticed this message from devtools, “The position: static property prevents z-index from having an effect. Try setting position to something other than static.”, looking back at some of my refactoring I had relative in an old template and it was lost.

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analytics

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, more about that in the /colophon.

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 3 min read

I fixed lists in my blog

A small improvement to my blog today. I was checking out my /now post and noticed that lists have left padding but no discs or numbers. I popped open my tailwind/app.css added these lines and rebuilt.

#post-body li { @apply list-disc; } #post-body ol { @apply list-decimal; }

And rebuild, which I actually do with ⭐ casey just, but showing the command here for clarity.

npx tailwindcss --input tailwind/app.css --output static/app-39.css

WHY the applies #

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a night of rounds

Tonight my son and I played rounds, I pulled clips of all the final rounds of each set of rounds. We play hardly any games with guns in them, this is one of the few exceptions, it feels quite whimsical, fun, and strategic, and not at all realistic or first person. The strategy part really brings me back to the fps games I would play with friends in my teens.

I thought I had him on this one. I had this rare power up that allows me to shot through walls. It came down to the very last round and he had too much firepowerfor me.

The final round of round 2 was Super fast. I felt like I nerfed my homing power up by adding fastball to it and it didn’t really home in anymore. What made it so quick, I think he had glass cannon and I laid down two well placed shots.

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2 min read

wondercraft session one

My son and I are starting a new Minecraft server today called wondercraft.

We are running a few mods on this server notably FTB Ultimine for less grindy resource gathering, Sodium for shaders, and Universal Shops.

We are runninng on Minecraft 1.20.1, I think this is because it was the latest supported by Universal Shops, its at least one major release old at this point.

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nvim-manager

I recently built a cli application as a nearly-one-shot-app called nvim-manager. It manages your nvim dotfiles install.

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nvim-manager allows you to install pinned versions of your dotfiles, your friends dotfiles, and distros in ~/.config. This allows you to have stable versions that will not break installed while you change things.

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/now

This page is meant to be simple view into what is happening in my life right now. Inspired by @NowNowNow. and Derek Sivers.

Last Update 2025-10-29

Last Update 2025-05-22 14:27:47

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2 min read

one-shot-s3-cleanup

So I made a mistake in an app I am working on and ended up creating thumbnails of thumbnails, and thumbnails of thumbnails of thumbnails… etc. I was able to delete them all, but I wanted to make a one-shot script to do it.

I got the idea of the one shot app from Simon Willison and replicated his setup in a chatgpt project

a mistake was made in my s3 bucket and I've created a bunch of extra files write a script that deletes all files that contain _thumb_thumb ⬢ [devtainer] ❯ aws s3 ls s3://dropper 2024-12-29 14:32:32 16158 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f.webp 2025-01-11 14:20:49 2878 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f_thumb.webp 2025-01-11 14:21:17 2858 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f_thumb_thumb.webp 2025-01-11 14:21:44 2856 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f_thumb_thumb_thumb.webp 2025-01-11 14:21:44 2856 02271f4c-be18-4bea-b23e-d00f9fe42b9f_thumb_thumb_thumb_thumb.webp 2024-12-27 10:25:36 2812 06422c09-d0da-44ec-9339-786864ebccf2.webp 2025-01-11 14:20:49 2710 06422c09-d0da-44ec-9339-786864ebccf2_thumb.webp 2025-01-11 14:21:17 2652 06422c09-d0da-44ec-9339-786864ebccf2_thumb_thumb.webp 2025-01-11 14:21:45 2632 06422c09-d0da-44ec-9339-786864ebccf2_thumb_thumb_thumb.webp 2025-01-11...

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we beat trailmakers

Today we broke through the atmosphere in trailmakers ready for pickup from those back at mission conrol.

I haven’t posted a lot of gaming content to by blog, idk why, but I think I am going to start, especially for the ones that are good memories with my son.

Today we hit 100% of the required parts required to build the space ship and leave the atmosphere of the planet that the story is set in. Trailmakers is a game where you design and build your own vehicles. The campaign mode standed is a story where you are in a high tech freighter ship that crash lands on a distant planet. Your crew back home can come as far as the planet your on but cannot break through the atmosphere. Your job is to collect all the wreckage and gain all the parts required for a space ship build to take you out of the atmosphere to meet them.

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/start

Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have 3461 posts published, here are some links to help you get started around here.

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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.

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slow nfs performance

I’m running a two node k3s cluster at home, I thought I could simply mount an nfs share on each worker node, and essentially have the same storage accross all nodes. I’m already learning why this is not reccommended.

I’ve been running some cronjobs and argo workflows on the second node for awhile, these are things that run in the background and I don’t care if they take a bit longer to keep my master node freed up for more critical work.

I just started trying to build this site in a cronjob, It was taking 20 minutes to build, and something I noticed was that markata was taking minutes to run glob ( search for files ), normally this happens in a few ms and I never notice this step.

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2 min read

/colophon

Colophon a page that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies

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

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setting up ucore-zfs

I just setup my oldest hardware on the newest hotest server distro ucore-zfs. This is a gateway FX6860 manufactured in 2010.

My current boot log shows that I first started daily driving bazzite back in August 2024. I’ve been hapily using it since my arch install was plaugued with a crippling display driver error, or something that would lock the display for minutes every 30s or so, it became unusable. I switched because this is what I put my son on and it was working great for him.

waylon@razorcrest:~$ journalctl --list-boots IDX BOOT ID FIRST ENTRY LAST ENTRY -19 7e6e154d2609407da24fa12814eadbd7 Thu 2024-08-29 16:15:15 CDT Thu 2024-08-29 17:37:25 CDT

Four months later and I am really loving the immutable distro experience. My base system gets fresh reliable updates, and I barely install anything directly on it, a handful of things are snaps or flatpaks from the discover store, but my main workflow is now in distrobox. It has been rock solid reliable, and just works.

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thoughts 0.0.4

This is such an improvement to the backend of my website it warrants a blog post of celebration. For far too long I’ve been dealing with a tiny ass edit form on thoughts. I tend to not edit them, and try to get them right in one go. This is kinda the point of a thought, its a quick post meant to be the size of a tweet, but sometimes I’m leaving thoughts on a video or long post and want to make sure I have a good save point, but I just keep the thing in draft and hope I don’t loose if for far too long.

Let’s see this change in action!!

This is the tiny ass form nested deeply in the flow of the feed. When I made it I naively just swapped out the post itself with the edit form, and swapped the post back in after edit.

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I'm really excited about jnv, an amazing project by ynqa. It's worth exploring!

Today I discovered the function in bash from the ujust tool from ublue.it. Seems like a cool trick, but might not wor...