- Your Nerve Plant
To focus the mind, you first have to understand and accept the mechanism of mind-wandering.
- Begging, 2017
I need to raise $500 for homeless services so I can join a Zen street retreat.
- How I'm Preparing For Sickness, Old Age, And Death
Easily write a will, health proxy, and advance directive, and talk about death with strangers.
- The Heroic Efforts of Unix Code Archeologists and Restorers
Read my story about the Unix Heritage Society and the Unix History Repo on Linux Weekly News.
- New Driver Features for MongoDB 3.6
A faster and smaller wire protocol, simple resilient code, and realtime change streams.
- Invitation to a Zen Street Retreat, July 2017
Join me and Genro Roshi for a four-day meditation retreat on the streets of NYC.
- Memorial Day Dharma Talk
My father-in-law is a soldier and my mother is a peace activist. Buddha's Middle Way allows us both to honor veterans and to oppose war.
- "Ordinary Zen" Photos in the Edge of Humanity Magazine
My Village Zendo photos were published by an online photo magazine.
- Video of My PyCon 2017 Talk, "Grok the GIL: Fast and Thread-Safe Python"
Read ancient CPython source code, and learn a principle so pithy you can write it on the back of your hand.
- Let's Grok the Gil at PyCon, Friday
I'm talking about fast and thread-safe Python tomorrow at 12:10, in the Oregon Ballroom 201-202.