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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 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. web rss All thoughts posts cross posted to my site are prefixed with a thought balloon 💭. The tech # Since this blog is mostly a tech blog about software development, and my journey as I learn, lets talk tech. python fastapi htmx sqlite docker https://fly.io fastapi # The core of the site is a python web server…

How I Continuously Deliver Content to my Blog with Markdown, GitHub, Python, and netlify # Content at the speed of thought. well, as fast as I can type Me # Mechanical Engineering Data Engineering Terminal Junkie Ask Questions in slido # Please ask questions in slido # 983 911 | App Dev 1 Track Slido Poll # Do you have a personal blog / notes / website? Yes - Static, built with python Yes - I manage a server running python Yes - Not python No we will circle back around in a few minutes I’ll give away my answer # Yes - Static, built with python Slack Channel: #track-1-appdev # If you are in the slack give me a 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Let’s light up slack 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 4 parts # Why My workflow Under the hood Open Source Part 1 WHY # 2016 # I want to own my content # Twitter is a great networking tool, but it’s rare to see anything more than a few hours old. I want to own my content # No one can take my domain or shut down the platform that my content is on. Some of my Stats # 48 Google top 10 ranking pages 6…

How I Continuously Deliver Content to my Blog with Markdown, GitHub, Python, and netlify # Content at the speed of thought. well, as fast as I can type Me # Mechanical Engineering Data Engineering Terminal Junkie Ask Questions in slido # Please ask questions in slido # 983 911 | App Dev 1 Track Slido Poll # Do you have a personal blog / notes / website? Yes - Static, built with python Yes - I manage a server running python Yes - Not python No we will circle back around in a few minutes I’ll give away my answer # Yes - Static, built with python Slack Channel: #track-1-appdev # If you are in the slack give me a 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Let’s light up slack 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 4 parts # Why My workflow Under the hood Open Source Part 1 WHY # 2016 # I want to own my content # Twitter is a great networking tool, but it’s rare to see anything more than a few hours old. I want to own my content # No one can take my domain or shut down the platform that my content is on. Some of my Stats # 48 Google top 10 ranking pages 6…

I recently started streaming on twitch.tv/waylonwalker and it’s been a blast so far. python kedro Data Science Data Engineering webdev digital gardening Kedro Spaceflights # 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. Inspiration # 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. twitch.tv/teej_dv Brilliant neovim core dev, I learn a bunch about nvim every time I watch. twitch.tv/cmgriffing Super Chill and engaging chat. twitch.tv/cassidoo Fantastic discussion/chat. twitch.tv/anthonywritescode Building the python ecosystem. twitch.tv/kierisi Exploring data in r-studio, taking xgboost to Slice…

I'm no longer streaming As much as I would really love to make streaming work, its really hard for my family situation to make large blocks of time work for me. 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. Making DAGs do 🔮Magical Things | Open Source 🐍Python | kedro plugins | # Science & Technology | Every Monday • 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM CDT On Monday’s I am going to be working on open source packages/plugins for kedro. kedro-diff test kedro-diff on piplines with history setup deploy pipeline deply to pypi 🌱 Digital Gardening | Blogging with 🐍Python | Building 🔮Markata a static site generator in python for waylonwalker.com # Science & Technology | Every Wednesday • 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM CDT On Wednesday morning I will be working on my personal website and the static site generator that I built for it…

I create this blog with one person in mind, me. There are others like 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. Accurate # 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. Generally I know that I am directionally accurate for most of the article. In fact there is often a part of the article that I don’t feel the best about. It may have been some code that could have been better. I try to point these things out. Often when I am and point out where I know there is improvement to be had I get the most welcoming comments, “that was just fine how you did that”, or “I tried that myself and saw a better abstraction. Create the articl…

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. Listing things # posts tags draft posts data # frontmatter filepath content template html render content # Markdown.Markdown support extentsions frontmatter cleaning. # provide ways to hook in or clean up the frontmatter Markata.Markata methods # load render save Markata.Post methods # load render save Markata plugins # before_load before_post_load after_load after_post_load before_save before_post_save after_save after_post_save Markata plugins # cleanse_frontmatter html_feed json_feed rss_feed save_posts CLI #

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. Platforms # waylonwalker.com Twitter DEV hashnode Medium LinkedIn Anchor Markdown # 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. Articles # 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, Medium. I have made cross-posting a bit easier for myself by posting the markdown for each article next to the post on my personal site. Add.md to any post and there is the source. Should I be giving my articles to Medium?? Personally, I am not a fan of the bait and…

Generating an api for a blog is much simpler than one might expect with python. Markdown # Frontmatter # Fill in the blanks # fix missing data Fast #

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. Todo List for starting a post # frontmatter template Title slug tags date cover description create markdown file open in neovim Lets Automate this # This aint no proper cli # hot and fast As with many thing running behind the scenes on this site, I am the one and only user, I have limited time, so this is going to be a bit hot and fast. Let’s create a file called new-post. start the script new-post 👆 Works on my machine If this were something that had more users than me I would probably use something like click, but for this I want to get it done quick and avoid any…

This is episode 1 of the Waylon Walker Audio experience, posts from waylonwalker.com {.hoverlink} in audio form. So I have had this idea for awhile to add audio to my blog posts. The idea partly comes from the aws blog, if you have ever been on their blog you will have noticed that they have a voiced by amazon polly section. What to Expect # Honestly I don’t know this is all new to me and I dont have much to go off of. For now its a test that may or may not work out. I will say that the time that I have available for clean audio is a bit limited so expect these to come out in batches as I get time to go back and record. What Not to Expect # One thing that makes the aws blog really hard to listen to is the robotic voice, I definitely don’t want that. This will be voiced by a real human, Me. At the same time written text doesn’t translate directly to audio well so don’t necessarily expect the audio to be word for word. Code blocks # There are a lot of code blocks in my blog, which don’t…

I wanted a super simple way to cross-link blog posts that require as little effort as possible, yet still looks good in vanilla markdown in GitHub. I have been using a snippet that puts HTML into the markdown. While this works, it’s more manual/difficult for me does not look the best, and does not read well as Goals for new card # The new card should be fully automated to expand with title, description, and cover image. Bonus if I am able to attach a comment behind it. fully automated card expansion Title description cover image Old Card # If you can call it a card 🤣. This card was just an image wrapped in an anchor tag and a paragraph tag. I found this was the most consistent way to get an image narrower and centered in both GitHub and dev.to. The key here is that I have to put the HTML into the markdown. It looks a bit dirty while editing and quite frankly it’s a pain to deal with. New Card # My first eight years as a working professional. First step # My first attempt was to make my…

Dynamically generate kedro pipelines with yaml or script Inspiration dag-factory

simple landing page https://swyx.io joel on software recent reading lists More from waylon just above footer 4x2 grid link strategy latest post next/prev similar tags search in nav tag stickers simple cards? bookmarks? nav style stinks single post template flat routes no need to /blog /notes post types 🌳 full 🌱 budding 🖊 Note 💻 hot tip usage of tags MDX stories slides ⚠ ❌ ✔ kedro viz charts inlink component https://joshwcomeau.com/ auto-card oneline links meta posts about uses how site is built how to search stories TODO # review package.json update package.json Done # ahrefs fix canonical urls fix broken inlinks convert to one post template