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21 posts latest post 2026-01-07
Publishing rhythm
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Yet again twitter cards were causing me pain. This time it was me not realizing that they require full urls, and not relative or abolute urls.

This was not working

<meta name="twitter:image" content="/shot/?path={{ request.url|quote_plus }}" content-type='image/png'/>

This does work with a full url

Links

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Let’s make a vim command to automatically collect all the links in these posts at the end of each article. Regex confuses the heck out of me… I don’t have my regex liscense, but regex can be so darn powerful especially in an editor.

Before you run someone’s regex from the internet that you don’t fully understand, check your git status and make sure you are all clear with git before you wreck something

Something that I have always appreciated form Nick Janetakis is his links section. I often try to gather up the links at the end of my posts, but often end up not doing it or forgetting.

Searchng through the internet I was able to find an article from Vitaly Parnas called

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Uses

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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Waylon Walker

Husband, dad of two, and hobbyist builder of things on the internet.

When I’m not wrangling data pipeline platforms or building web platforms, you’ll find me gaming with my kids, making art, or skating around the neighborhood. Reliving my mechanical engineering days with my 3d printer. Winding down at the end of the day binge-watching Big Bang Theory with my wife.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer who specializes in data pipelines and Python-based web platforms. I help teams turn messy data into reliable systems that actually work.

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Sample

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Now you don’t have to manually link to how to create a 4 min read

Expand One Line Links

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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