Posts tagged: blog

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.

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.

May 2023

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I am giving obsidian a try, this is a test post to learn the flow. Something that has been really hard for me for a long time is images, I don’t include a lot of images just because it takes so much longer just to get the post out. I store them in a separate repo, I need to resize and compress them for the web so they aren’t so big.

This is my current wallpaper.

I took he screenshot and just pasted it in.

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These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don’t have a link. These are dual published off of my thoughts.waylonwalker.com site. It’s a fully dynamically rendered site 2000’s style. Posts are stored in a database and instantly available. Almost all of the posts were written in a small <textarea> field within a chrome extension that I built for it.

These posts are intended to in two ways. One, link building for the author. I hope that I give the people helping me out along the way just a little bit of a boost. Two, they serve as a permanant commented bookmark for me to search, and come back to later when I have forgotten where I have seen something.

All thoughts posts cross posted to my site are prefixed with a thought balloon 💭.

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Content at the speed of thought.

well, as fast as I can type

Please ask questions in slido # 983 911 | App Dev 1 Track

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Content at the speed of thought.

well, as fast as I can type

Please ask questions in slido # 983 911 | App Dev 1 Track

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I recently started streaming on twitch.tv/waylonwalker and it’s been a blast so far.

It all started with kedro/issues/606, Yetu called out for users of kedro to record themselves doing a walk through of their tutorials. I wanted to do this, but was really stuck at the fact that recording or editing somewhat polished vide is quite time consuming for me.

My introduction to twitch came from twitch.tv/theprimeagen. I watched him on YouTube, and then decided to drop into a stream. It was so fun to watch him live that I started following others in the science and tech category.

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16720541/python-string-replace-regular-expression

I am starting to stream 3 days per week, before I start work in the morning. These streams will likely be me just talking through things I am already doing.

Science & Technology | Every Monday • 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM CDT

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I create this blog with one person in mind, me.

This is not completely selfish, as there are likely many others out there that think similarly to me. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and varying levels of experience. In no way do you need to be an expert to create content others will benefit from.

I am as accurate as possible. I don’t know everything, and If I waited for that to happen I would never post, or write at such a high level no one else (including me) would ever want to read.

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This is a post that may be a work in progress for awhile, Its a collections of thoughts on managing my blog, but could be translated into anythiung that is just a collection of markdown.

I am making another push in 2021 to get my content out in the world and meeting users where they are. See how I plan to execute.

My content is written in markdown, all markdown. I find that markdown does a really great job at getting out of the way and letting ideas flow onto the page. I am never fussing with fonts and formatting while physically writing posts. Not that I don’t spend way more time than I need to tweak these things on my own personal site where everything gets posted.

Much of what I create is inside of short articles that get posted to my personal site waylonwalker.com. These will get cross-posted to DEV, hashnode,

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Generating an api for a blog is much simpler than one might expect with python.

fix missing data

One thing we all dread is mundane work of getting started, and all the hoops it takes to get going. This year I want to post more often and I am taking some steps towards making it easier for myself to just get started.

When I start a new post I need to cd into my blog directory, start neovim in a markdown file with a clever name, copy some frontmatter boilerplate, update the post date, add tags, a description, and a cover.

hot and fast

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