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A side effect of Markata DidYouMean is that we are able to implement some rudimentary search based on slug, title, tags, and description. I made a video of the early work on using this side effect to search for content on markata.dev. This was first implemented to solve 404 pages giving users a way to try to find the page that they tried to access. But it turned out to be a decent way to search through the docs.

Coming in Markata 0.9.1 is far better documentation. i.e. Documentation that actually exists for everything. As part of poking around I realized that I often go to look up the docs for a plugin and forget that the path is, sometimes I might try or or or I might even forget the plugin name exactly and try something like and get a 404. So I added a plugin to markata that takes care of this. I made a quick recording of this early feature, pay close attention to the url as it automatically updates to the correct page. Happy Path # direct forward If you have one post called, and it is the only post called feeds, any combination of or or will all automatically redirect with an html page (not a server 3xx) to the post. Here is the snippet that does the redirect. You won’t see it unless you are on a really bad network, or you have js disabled, but this is what it would look like if you ever saw it. Notice there is a backup link if you have js disabled. Multiple Similar Posts # list of options…

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

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 Note See https://indieweb.org/PESOS for more information, they have a ton of information about the indieweb 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. GitHub stars # I am using the github api to get a list of my stars and then create posts in the github repo for my blog. This allows me to keep track of things I star on GitHub in my own way, and share them out with my rss feeds.

I broke my sick wikilink hover recently in a refactor, today I did some diving in to figure out what happened. Before # 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. After # After properly setting position to relative on the list-item, the hover image is raised above the others.

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…

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 added these lines and rebuilt. And rebuild, which I actually do with ⭐ casey just, but showing the command here for clarity. WHY the applies # Before # After #

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. Round 1 - Orange # 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. Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. Round 2 - Blue # 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. Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. Round 3 - Orange # Round three he got some really good cards, but too much firepower and sta…

My son and I are starting a new Minecraft server today called wondercraft. setup # 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. I grabbed a few shaders, the ones that you see in this post are rethinking voxels. spawn # We initially spawned in a plains biome near an acacia and forest biome. We ended up going straight for the forest, only coming back for some sheep and wheat seeds. Night one Zombie fight # On the first night we had the obligitory zombie fight before getting beds and bases set. Salmon Wrangler # I was the designated food provider. I setup a small wheat farm with about 64 seeds, then went out to hunt down some salmon for the immediate food need. I ended up with about a stack of salmon at the end of the session. Setting up Sh…

I recently built a cli application as a nearly-one-shot-app called nvim-manager. It manages your nvim dotfiles install. Why # How is nvim manager any better # 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. I’m sure most of us have experienced the pain of installing one plugin, only to update all of your plugins and break something. Or, you have small changes on every machine you use, because they are all just a bit different and now you have big merge conflicts to deal with. All of this aside you can install a distro to get you by, or a known working version of your own dotfiles. So all these versions in ~/.config # ya, thats the magic of, I can boot up any of these intalled working versions in an instant with. I can still cowboy up and break my main install, but as long as I am diligent to keep these installs untouched I…

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 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 project Posts t…

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. One Shot App # I got the idea of the one shot app from Simon Willison and replicated his setup in a chatgpt project Initial Prompt # s3_cleanup # Here is the result of the s3_cleanup script. It ended up being 5 or 6 passes to get everything I wanted with soft-delete enabled. Nice preview outputs in the dry run. This was 90% created by chatgpt 4o, with some slight hand edits by me along the way. full help text output # Here is the help text for all of the commands in the script.

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. There were a couple really heavy salvages to gather up, this one is high in the floating islands and is the cockpit fo the space ship. I thought this was a cool shot of one…

Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have 3818 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…

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. Slow # 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. Permissions # I have seen where you can get diffent permissions on the nfs share based on user id. Since I’m homelabbing here I only have one user per machine. As you step into enterprise level VMs with tighter controls and dozens of users for all the different services that might run on it. I’ve ran in…

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.

I just setup my oldest hardware on the newest hotest server distro ucore-zfs. This is a gateway FX6860 manufactured in 2010. Immutable is the future # 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. 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. The Hardware # This gem is running a an intel i7-2600 (4) @ 3.80 ghz with 16gb of ram. I’ve maxed out the ram that the motherboard will allow me. I may have even for…

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. Results # Let’s see this change in action!! before # 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. after # Now the edit is a full page modal with a nice blurry backdrop effect to the rest of the content. This feels pretty similar to making a on twitter. How # How did I do this with htmx? I had to break out of the mindset my brain was in with swapping in…

Today I dropped some new caps in the porta-john. I need to do a bunch of posts on zmk and my journey building the porta-john, I’ve been rocking it for at least two weeks now pretty solid and I am absolutely loving it. More on that later. KLP-Lame-Keycaps # The model of the caps are KLP-Lame by braindefender, they are super rounded and smooth. They look really good on camera and feel good to the finders. I printed these at home on my ender3 s1 pro with a black and purple silk filliment. I printed all 42 at once using a Printing 42 keys at once technique. They do have just a bit of a rough texture that you can feel on your figertips. I printed these on super quality.12mm layer height, while my last set was printed on draft quality.32mm layer height. They look crazy different in print quality with the lines of the new caps barely showing, the feel isn’t nearly as drastic. The Result # Check out the final shots as I set up the porta-john with these sweet caps. And here they are all set up.…