Posts tagged: meta

drafted by kimi

How I write and build this site. A personal style guide.

Casually self-deprecating with technical credibility.

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A running list of blog post ideas to strengthen underrepresented topics on the site.

Building out Docker/containerization content to match the llms.txt claims.

Lightest coverage area. Need to expand beyond the few short posts.

I’m working on replacing my usage of google inline search apps with real apps, these are ones that I create and host on my own homelab. The first three that I created are mostly chatgpt based, with a bit of hand edit after the fact, uploaded to minio and become an app on my k8s-pages

I’m leaning on May 22, 2025 3 min read

This post is a big work in progress, expect it to keep getting better.

Another hit on 404’s caused by tags, was tag parsing from thoughts into posts, this cause links to the full comma separated list of tags rather than one per tag.

You can see on the website the whole dang set of tags was being treated as a single tag.

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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.

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 markata-go site, so this page now renders the yearly...

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Welcome to waylonwalker.com, my small corner of the internet. I currently have 3607 posts published, here are some links to help you get started around here.

I have quite a few different feeds that you can browse or subscribe to in your rss reader, you can find them on my January 3, 2025 3 min read

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 January 2, 2025 1 min read

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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My latest blog post is [[ {{ markata.feeds.blogfeed.posts[0].slug }} ]]. Click the link if you are not automatically redirected.

I registered waylonwalker.com and started making content for it in 2017 after a big industry downturn in 2016 that left me scared for what would happen if I were laid off. The company I was working for at the time did it’s first major downsizing in history sending many really good engineers out to look for new opportunities in a world flooded with many in the same situation. This was very similar to what happened to the tech industry in 2024.

This was very similar to what happened to the tech industry in 2024.

See Waylon Walker for more about me.

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I have several feeds that you can consume my content with. Many posts will cross between them, so if you would like to follow a certain stream of content in your rss reader thats what this is for. This one might feel like it has some extra noise with multiple posts per day, including starts, and instagram style posts, for a bit less look at the [[ main ]] feed.

This is a feed of everything that I have published on my site to date including Posts tagged: blog, [[ til ]], April 2, 2024 1 min read

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.

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