Meta tags:
description=Links and essays;

Headings (most frequently used words):

the, my, to, is, of, and, like, in, it, about, links, glue, not, better, engineering, year, best, actually, favorite, on, home, piece, this, cool, some, you, will, hopkins, or, dystopia, isn, assured, fidget, point, data, replicating, postgres, highly, effective, habit, for, feeling, sunday, upgrades, 100, posts, ish, games, 2025, according, npr, seasonal, reading, build, quiet, life, amongst, flowers, hello, powrss, peter, lyons, 3d, prints, do, being, office, markdown, feature, footnotes, approach, self, hosting, hélène, vogelsinger, patch, notes, blake, watson, cooked, apps, call, what, fascism, scoping, with, contractors, chris, ferdinandi, diy, netlify, morning, routine, printers, were, mistake, oh, no, getting, into, synthesizers, jared, graffiti, alley, curtis, mchale, obligation, writing, garry, winogrand, gat, damn, murderbot, cosplay, don, read, later, substack, sends, users, swastikas, tlr, me, monteiro, leave, house, fuck, big, beautiful, bill, new, blog, font, code, saver, notebook, saving, brain, more, nils, frahm, fun, find, taylor, town, mud, working, from, great, tired, talking, llms, after, paul, strand, was, never, prompt, sinners, movie, burren, all, right, why, are, still, using, twitter, bad, ireland, should, try, polars, online, counterculture, essays,

Text of the page (most frequently used words):
more (54), will (53), #hopkins (53), read (53), posted (50), the (50), tagged (47), 2025 (45), and (38), for (16), with (12), this (12), about (12), work (12), april (10), politics (9), data (9), engineering (9), but (9), you (9), october (9), 2026 (8), been (8), don (8), that (8), june (8), reading (8), was (7), from (7), self (7), 22nd (6), get (6), links (6), music (6), home (6), year (6), august (6), indieweb (5), really (5), 7th (5), some (5), july (5), like (5), hosting (5), coffee (5), 6th (4), rss (4), time (4), new (4), photo (4), not (4), just (4), using (4), they (4), 26th (4), best (4), technology (4), great (4), can (4), good (4), what (4), his (4), substack (4), later (4), november (4), him (3), post (3), long (3), polars (3), should (3), ireland (3), much (3), want (3), are (3), still (3), linkblog (3), while (3), all (3), out (3), never (3), school (3), things (3), have (3), 3rd (3), myself (3), has (3), working (3), analog (3), because (3), favorite (3), writing (3), font (3), here (3), type (3), those (3), 1st (3), monteiro (3), news (3), first (3), took (3), winogrand (3), blogging (3), 20th (3), synthesizers (3), september (3), cats (3), office (3), blake (3), love (3), markdown (3), prints (3), peter (3), powrss (3), most (3), better (3), postgres (3), fidget (3), glue (3), posts (2), enjoying (2), added (2), feeds (2), online (2), counterculture (2), since (2), engineer (2), only (2), recently (2), 17th (2), twitter (2), pit (2), now (2), mastodon (2), fan (2), use (2), hot (2), diy (2), haven (2), cool (2), leave (2), 5th (2), sinners (2), movie (2), anti (2), slop (2), may (2), 11th (2), prompt (2), hope (2), part (2), less (2), 30th (2), word (2), care (2), tired (2), free (2), them (2), fuck (2), programming (2), 10th (2), made (2), she (2), purchased (2), find (2), nils (2), frahm (2), 28th (2), when (2), meta (2), around (2), code (2), saver (2), big (2), mike (2), lately (2), photography (2), tlr (2), 29th (2), there (2), answer (2), yourself (2), actually (2), 3d_printing (2), found (2), murderbot (2), through (2), also (2), piece (2), garry (2), being (2), 8th (2), curtis (2), wrote (2), think (2), 12th (2), graffiti (2), alley (2), one (2), didn (2), getting (2), routine (2), take (2), sit (2), enjoy (2), morning (2), blogroll (2), chris (2), ferdinandi (2), netlify (2), risks (2), contractors (2), how (2), fascist (2), watson (2), start (2), live (2), hélène (2), making (2), host (2), 14th (2), footnotes (2), started (2), march (2), catalog (2), lyons (2), pablo (2), quality (2), than (2), games (2), december (2), sunday (2), upgrades (2), then (2), replicating (2), our (2), point (2), toy (2), published, weblog, ghost, older, page, manu, people, blogs, series, naturally, recent, resonated, user, pandas, learned, dataframes, era, uses, try, bad, social, seriously, elon, sucks, sludge, suck, bluesky, why, edition, synths, spend, packing, head, tomorrow, excited, see, kitties, sad, least, each, burren, right, movies, saw, imax, format, sadly, easily, going, come, might, real, accessible, jobs, workers, specialized, labor, bosses, end, skill, differentiator, hasn, changed, inch, beach, after, paul, strand, 2nd, terminal, browser, reminds, grad, running, everything, chromebook, pixel, evolved, already, seen, dan, sinker, setting, encountering, giving, fight, battle, talking, llms, seems, obvious, yet, employers, need, told, offering, employees, flexibility, choose, significant, benefits, their, physical, mental, health, notebooks, 9th, beat, tools, solving, problems, wrangling, brains, mud, courtesy, internet, magazine, website, ugly, itif, mom, wanted, art, her, fridge, could, reprints, works, vermeer, lichtenstein, wyeth, etc, fun, taylor, town, favorite_things, chill, playlist, remains, revelation, listened, car, spatial, audio, soundstage, doubt, reach, paper, notebook, saving, brain, decided, shake, dharma, sweet, serifs, blog, does, says, tin, beautiful, bill, liked, newsletter, buttondown, hitting, extra, hard, latest, house, bit, history, cameras, nazi, problem, simple, sends, users, swastikas, 31st, services, unless, place, die, set, poking, thangs, neat, helmet, huge, books, currently, loved, season, gat, damn, cosplay, 1976, mason, resnick, workshop, looked, portfolio, without, hearing, explanation, spoke, little, seemed, bored, restless, uncomfortable, stuck, had, response, earlier, week, often, save, person, mchale, obligation, probably, nikon, remember, photographed, shooting, polaroid, packfilm, black, lives, jared, middle, high, played, alto, saxophone, guitar, lessons, stick, into, nothing, say, matter, printers, were, mistake, wake, check, bed, medications, make, feed, teamfight, tactics, homerolled, version, control, money, digital, ocean, serverpilot, which, involved, hiring, mitigate, scoping, donald, trump, rogue, gallery, cabinet, family, circle, uniformly, unfit, hold, everyone, republican, party, call, fascism, manulet, basics, introduce, sure, small, city, near, jackson, mississippi, usa, mri, cooked, apps, entranced, especially, kind, makes, goes, trouble, setup, vogelsinger, patch, notes, 13th, complicated, walk, questions, ask, before, deciding, something, helps, approach, letter, feature, remotely, living, lockdowns, 2020, years, remote, thriving, custom, lyonsstaff, back, endpeter, lyonspeter, heavily, side, functional, printing, opposed, thanks, adding, group, stuff, indieblog, reads, other, kottke, hello, throw, someone, under, bus, disengage, society, build, quiet, life, amongst, flowers, web, seasonally, thought, tool, keeping, tabs, seasonal, argue, these, picks, hades, personal, game, ball, spectacular, tried, expedition, according, npr, 21st, 100th, quite, certain, went, 100, ish, january, able, downtime, behind, scenes, pipeline, months, every, day, feeding, heating, breakfast, lap, cat, happy, light, highly, effective, habit, feeling, spark, finally, finished, albatross, project, shards, databricks, broad, strokes, export, databases, daily, backup, snapshot, ingest, number, thing, keeps, hammered, experience, folks, responsible, analytics, miniature_painting, warhammer, hobby, scraping, mold, lines, off, plastic, models, even, who, knew, vote, dystopia, isn, assured, outside, exhibition, builds, generally, considered, sin, lego, bricks, together, exactly, robs, perhaps, its, attractive, always, essays,

Text of the page (random words):
will hopkins mastodon will hopkins links and essays home about blogroll rss to glue or not to glue outside of big exhibition builds it is generally considered a sin to glue lego bricks together exactly because it robs the toy of perhaps its most attractive quality that we can always take read more posted by will hopkins on october 26th 2026 dystopia isn t assured get out there and vote read more posted by will hopkins on october 20th 2026 tagged politics a better fidget scraping mold lines off plastic models is an even better fidget than a fidget toy who knew read more posted by will hopkins on october 6th 2026 tagged hobby warhammer miniature_painting the point of data engineering the number one thing that keeps getting hammered home to me by experience and the folks at work i m responsible to is that the point of data analytics engineering is to read more posted by will hopkins on april 20th 2026 tagged data engineering replicating postgres i finally finished my albatross project replicating all our postgres shards to databricks this is great news in broad strokes we export our postgres databases daily from the backup snapshot then ingest those read more posted by will hopkins on april 12th 2026 tagged data engineering spark my highly effective habit for feeling better every morning i start the day by making coffee feeding the cats heating up a hot breakfast for myself and then i sit with my coffee a lap cat and my happy light read more posted by will hopkins on march 30th 2026 sunday upgrades it s sunday and i was able to get some downtime at work to do some upgrades behind the scenes i ve been working on this data pipeline for months and read more posted by will hopkins on january 11th 2026 tagged data engineering 100 posts and a year ish i ve been writing here for about a year and this is my 100th post it s been quite a year for all of us that much is certain i went read more posted by will hopkins on december 21st 2025 tagged meta the best games of 2025 according to npr i can t argue with most of these picks hades ii is my personal game of the year but ball x pit was also spectacular i tried expedition 33 but it never read more posted by will hopkins on december 10th 2025 tagged games seasonal reading pablo recently added me to powrss 1 and wrote about reading the web seasonally 2 when i first started using rss i thought i d found this great tool for keeping tabs on read more posted by will hopkins on november 26th 2025 tagged rss indieweb i d like to build a quiet life amongst the flowers don t throw someone under the bus to disengage from society read more posted by will hopkins on november 14th 2025 tagged politics hello powrss thanks to pablo for adding me to the group i love stuff like powrss and indieblog and it s how i find most of my quality reads other than kottke long live read more posted by will hopkins on november 7th 2025 tagged indieweb peter lyons 3d prints catalog of custom 3d prints peter lyonsstaff engineer back endpeter lyonspeter lyons peter made a catalog of his 3d prints he s heavily on the side of functional 3d printing as opposed read more posted by will hopkins on november 6th 2025 tagged 3d_printing indieweb i do actually like being in the office i ve been working remotely or living at my office since lockdowns first started in march 2020 that s 5 5 years of remote work and i m thriving i read more posted by will hopkins on october 22nd 2025 tagged work my favorite markdown feature footnotes a love letter to markdown s footnotes read more posted by will hopkins on october 14th 2025 tagged markdown blogging my approach to self hosting should you self host the answer is complicated and i ll walk you through the questions i ask myself before deciding to self host something hope it helps read more posted by will hopkins on october 13th 2025 tagged self hosting hélène vogelsinger on patch notes i ve lately been entranced by synthesizers 1 and especially enjoying the kind of music hélène makes here i love that she goes to the trouble of making this setup work in read more posted by will hopkins on october 8th 2025 tagged music synthesizers blake watson and home cooked apps blake watson manulet s start from the basics can you introduce yourself sure i m blake i live in a small city near jackson mississippi usa i work for mri i enjoy reading read more posted by will hopkins on october 7th 2025 tagged programming self hosting technology call it what it is fascism donald trump is a fascist he and his rogue s gallery of a cabinet family and circle are uniformly unfit to hold office everyone in the republican party is a fascist at read more posted by will hopkins on october 5th 2025 tagged politics scoping with contractors in which i think about the risks involved in hiring contractors and how to mitigate those risks read more posted by will hopkins on september 29th 2025 tagged data engineering chris ferdinandi s diy netlify chris ferdinandi has a homerolled version of netlify with more control for less money using digital ocean and serverpilot read more posted by will hopkins on september 22nd 2025 tagged self hosting blogging blogroll my morning routine 1 wake up 2 check the news 3 get out of bed 4 take medications 5 make coffee 6 feed the cats 7 sit with coffee cats and teamfight tactics and enjoy the read more posted by will hopkins on september 7th 2025 tagged coffee routine printers were a mistake i have nothing more to say on the matter read more posted by will hopkins on august 26th 2025 oh no i m getting into synthesizers in middle school and one year of high school i played the alto saxophone i took some guitar lessons but they didn t really stick i didn t care for music read more posted by will hopkins on august 20th 2025 tagged music jared in graffiti alley i probably took this on my nikon f3 or f2 but i don t really remember i photographed him in graffiti alley while shooting polaroid type 52 packfilm at the black lives read more posted by will hopkins on august 12th 2025 tagged photo curtis mchale on obligation curtis had a response to what i wrote earlier this week about reading later with reading later i think we often save things because we want to be the type of person that read more posted by will hopkins on august 8th 2025 tagged blogging reading my favorite piece of writing about garry winogrand in 1976 mason resnick took a workshop with garry winogrand we looked at the portfolio without hearing a word of explanation winogrand spoke little he seemed bored and restless uncomfortable about being stuck read more posted by will hopkins on august 7th 2025 tagged photography gat damn this is a cool murderbot cosplay piece i was poking around thangs and found this neat murderbot helmet i am a huge fan of the books currently on my 3rd read through and also loved the first season of the read more posted by will hopkins on august 1st 2025 tagged 3d_printing i don t actually like to read later read it later services are great unless they re a place links go to die set yourself free read more posted by will hopkins on july 31st 2025 tagged reading self hosting substack sends users swastikas substack still has a nazi problem there s a simple answer don t use substack read more posted by will hopkins on july 29th 2025 tagged substack politics the tlr and me a bit of my history with tlr cameras and what i like and don t about them read more posted by will hopkins on july 6th 2025 tagged photography monteiro leave the house i ve liked mike monteiro s work for a long time but his mike monteiro s good news newsletter on buttondown is hitting extra hard lately from his latest much read more posted by will hopkins on july 1st 2025 tagged politics linkblog fuck the big beautiful bill does what it says on the tin read more posted by will hopkins on july 1st 2025 tagged politics new blog font code saver i decided to shake things up around here with a new font code saver from dharma type you should now be reading this post with those sweet new serifs i only purchased a read more posted by will hopkins on june 28th 2025 tagged meta font my notebook is saving my brain when in doubt reach for paper read more posted by will hopkins on june 28th 2025 tagged technology analog writing more nils frahm a favorite on my chill playlist nils frahm was and remains a revelation best listened to in a car or with really good spatial audio or soundstage read more posted by will hopkins on june 17th 2025 tagged music favorite_things fun find taylor town courtesy of good internet magazine my website is ugly because i made itif my mom wanted good art on her fridge she could ve purchased reprints of works by vermeer lichtenstein wyeth etc read more posted by will hopkins on june 10th 2025 tagged indieweb i m in the mud you can t beat analog tools for solving problems and wrangling brains read more posted by will hopkins on june 9th 2025 tagged notebooks analog programming working from home is great it seems obvious and yet employers still need to be told offering employees the flexibility to choose to work from home has significant benefits for their physical and mental health i have been read more posted by will hopkins on june 3rd 2025 tagged work anti work i m tired of talking about llms i m just so tired i m setting myself free not of encountering them but of giving a fuck i don t want to fight a battle i don read more posted by will hopkins on june 3rd 2025 tagged ai slop technology some links terminal in browser reminds me of grad school and running everything on my chromebook pixel 2 things have evolved in a word care if you haven t already seen dan sinker read more posted by will hopkins on june 2nd 2025 tagged linkblog links after paul strand inch beach in ireland read more posted by will hopkins on may 30th 2025 tagged photo it was never about prompt engineering prompt engineering was never real it was a hope for more accessible jobs on the part of workers and less specialized labor on the part of bosses in the end the skill differentiator hasn t changed read more posted by will hopkins on may 11th 2025 tagged ai slop technology work anti work sinners is the best movie this year i just saw sinners in imax not the 1 43 1 format sadly and it s easily the best movie that s going to come out in 2025 it might be read more posted by will hopkins on april 26th 2025 tagged movies the burren is all right we re packing up to head home tomorrow and i m excited to see my kitties but sad to leave it s at least my 5th time in ireland each read more posted by will hopkins on april 22nd 2025 tagged photo some cool links april 22nd edition get em while they re hot get em while they re links diy synths i don t spend time on music and haven t read more posted by will hopkins on april 22nd 2025 tagged linkblog politics why are you still using twitter seriously elon sucks so much twitter is just a sludge pit of suck by now using it feeds him i m a mastodon fan but use bluesky if you want just get read more posted by will hopkins on april 22nd 2025 tagged politics social not bad ireland read more posted by will hopkins on april 17th 2025 tagged photo you should try polars i ve been a long time user of pandas since i m a data engineer but only recently learned about polars dataframes for the new era 1 polars uses read more posted by will hopkins on april 7th 2025 tagged data engineering online counterculture i ve really been enjoying manu s people blogs 1 series so naturally i added him to my rss feeds 2 this recent post 3 about online counterculture really resonated read more posted by will hopkins on april 6th 2025 tagged politics indieweb page 1 of 3 older posts 2026 will hopkins published with ghost weblog