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Writing

Ploughing Poems

July 6th, 2023.

Between my finger and my thumb/ The squat pen rests./ I’ll dig with it. — Heaney … read more ➮

Crazy as a Loon

February 7th, 2023.

A new dad, a half-inch of water, a pandemic, and John Prine. … read more ➮

dunes before rain

January 12th, 2023.

the cedars stake sand like uncles waiting; the storm — black with virga, hours away — smells fresh, like sticky buds … read more ➮

Sergei Parajanov was an Armenian film director who grew up in Georgia and did most of his work in the USSR (in Ukraine). Complicated, poetic, gregarious, fascinating, larger-than-life, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, etc., etc. … read more ➮

Xavier Lozano

October 17th, 2024.

I ocassionally send this video to friends and family. It always makes me happy, even on days when I am feeling really overwhelmed, stressed, burnt out, or sad. 0:00 /0:21 1× I decided to find out more about this guy. Did he make this barricade flute? What is … read more ➮

James Baldwin on Love

February 16th, 2023.

Pretend, for example, that you were born in Chicago and have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong, which is only a name on a map for you; pretend that some convulsion, sometimes called accident, throws you into connection with a man or a woman who lives in … read more ➮

Programming

Resetting a Corrupted Docker Network on Windows

April 28th, 2021.

Docker for Windows uses a few Windows Containers features to provide networking to Docker containers. Sometimes (usually bad shutdowns, killing host VM, etc) those networks can be corrupted. An example error you might encounter is: Error response from daemon: HNS failed with error : The object already exists. These kinds of … read more ➮

What I've Learned About Threat Modeling

April 17th, 2021.

Threat modeling is a crucial activity for anybody working in software, but for somebody just starting out, it’s super intimidating. What do you search for? What’s the goal of threat modeling? Why should I care? … read more ➮

A GPU-accelerated terminal emulator? Why!?

August 5th, 2019.

My terminal has be extremely slow lately. Every few minutes, it will hang – just slightly. The lag is like a cheese grater on my mind, distracting me and pulling me out of the zone. Pasting large text or opening large files slows the entire terminal down to a crawl, and … read more ➮

Today I Learned

Old Maps in QGis

October 22nd, 2024.

I have been obsessed with trying to create an old-looking map using modern GIS software. It’s proved very elusive, since the texture and feel of old maps come from their — inaccuracy? imprecision? The perfect lines and sheer volume of map data give you a clinical precision that make most … read more ➮

Organizing your macos workspaces

October 21st, 2024.

I recently got fed up with the long animations when switching between screens on my mac. I love the feeling of switching instantaneously between programs on my linux machines – could there be a way to get that feeling on macos? And yes, this is nit-picky — but sometimes the difference between … read more ➮

Updating Ghost from MySql 5 to 8

October 17th, 2024.

I recently updated my Ghost blogging software, and ran into some trouble regarding the MySql update. I think this was because I was updating Ghost, MySql, and Ubuntu all at the same time. Here's what fixed it for me. First off, the big thing to learn is that … read more ➮