A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

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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.
The Kid Is Not My Son My father's dishonesty was frustrating and disappointing to many people, but I think he got the worst of it.
Climbing Tiers of Fear Zhihua Gan climbing Tiers of Fear (5.12a) in the Gunks.
How Zen Monasteries Tell Time We've been using drums and bells for centuries, though the meaning has changed.
Antithesis BugBash Conference 2026 Notes from the 2026 conference on autonomous testing and software correctness.
Preparing the Eucharist Reverend Emily Carter preparing the wine and wafers at Christ Episcopal Church.