Posts tagged: meta

This is a listing of all the things that I use on a daily basis to build data pipelines, lead my team, and build this website.

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Everything installed on my machines is done through ansible-playbooks. It’s been a long transformation to get here, but its so satisfying to boot a brand new system, run a single command a have every single thing cofigured exactly to my liking.

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👋 Hi, I am Waylon Walker. Husband, Father of two, and creator things on the web, learning, and teaching others. I play lots of Minecraft, make art, and skate everyday with my kids. I finish the day binging episodes of Big Bang Theory with my wife.

I believe in a decentralized platform where everyone has their own space on this internet to share their thoughts and ideas. I created my blogging platform from scratch to learn about building tools with pluggy and diskcache. I was frustrated with long build times, black holes of node modules, bloated pages, and a lack of built in SEO tools. Instead I built my own under funded, over dreamed, nearly undocumented framework to that I love and maintain.

I am a Senior Software Engineer specializing in building data pipelines and web platforms with python.

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Now you don’t have to manually link to how to create a virtual environment every time you mention virtual environments in any post that needs a virtual environment.

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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

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.

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.

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Help language models understand and surface my work accurately.

name: Waylon Walker aliases: waylonwalker, _waylonwalker website: https://waylonwalker.com github: https://github.com/waylonwalker twitter: https://twitter.com/_waylonwalker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waylonwalker/ bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/waylonwalker.com

description: Waylon Walker is a Senior Software Engineer who specializes in data pipelines and Python-based web platforms. He runs a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster in his basement, built his own static site generator because he got tired of bloated Node modules, and writes about Python, Linux, neovim, and the intersection of tech and family life. He’s...

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