A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

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Night Climbing 2 Another after-dark climbing party at the Mac Wall in the Gunks.
Silks Performing with aerial silks suspended from the Near Trapps cliff in the Gunks.
Night Climbing An after-dark climbing party at the Mac Wall in the Gunks.
New Paltz Zen Center's First Shuso Hossen Ceremony For the first time at our Zen temple, a member was promoted to Senior Zen Student and gave her first dharma talk.
Keep the Dharma Wheel Rolling The symbols, rituals, and language of Buddhism goes back 5000 years or more. We should both maintain and innovate these traditions.
SIGMOD 2026 Recap My notes from the database conference in Bangalore.
Bengaluru Trip report of a week in India's tech capital.
Review: Scalable Leader Leases For Multi Consensus Groups in CockroachDB A difficult paper about a real cloud database's complex and evolving architecture.
Nepal trek Two days visiting Kathmandu temples, then four days walking up to Poon Hill and down through the Annapurna foothills.
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory You can go far without writing TLA+ syntax now, but you still need to understand temporal logic.