I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside Above the ocean. I saw through half-shut eyelids a vulture wheeling high up in heaven, And presently it passed again, but lower and nearer, its orbit narrowing, I understood then That I was under inspection. I…
Illustrated city maps include some of my favorite 1950s-style cartography.…
The Mullingar Lea / The Flogging Reel A Bird Never Flew on One Wing by Sean Keegan…
Originally written in 2018. Oliver and I are in a valley in Gitega Province, Burundi, surrounded by fields. We're walking to visit some fish ponds we were told about. Valleys here have completely flat bottoms. The streams have been re-routed into channels, and an intricate series of dams…
I wrote this post in 2017, in Kibuye, Burundi after visiting the NICU ward at Kibuye Hope Hospital. For decades, premature babies have been born at Kibuye Hope Hospital. Many of them haven't survived, but recent developments have started to even the odds.. These hand-made incubators were designed…
Aaron Schwartz's life had a strange magnetism. I was a stressed-out farm kid with no real connections, but even so it felt like there was a bright conspiracy of internet Robin Hoods, ready for you to join them. He was the internet's Little John. The Internet&…
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…