A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- Response to "Asynchronous Python and Databases"
Some thoughts on Mike Bayer's excellent article about asyncio, database drivers, and performance.
- Yangshan Plants His Hoe
My inaugural dharma talk is on Zen and the work of reconciling injustice.
- Zazenkai
The all-day meditation retreat between my urban sesshin and my first dharma talk.
- Urban Sesshin Day 3: Diversity And Racism
On the third day of the Village Zendo's three-day retreat we had a workshop on cycles of oppression, and cultural competence.
- Urban Sesshin Day 2: NYC Criminal Court
On the second day of the Village Zendo's three-day retreat, we observed arraignments.
- Urban Sesshin Day 1: Bowery Mission
On the first day of the Village Zendo's three-day retreat, we ate at a homeless shelter.
- PyMongo And Key Order In Subdocuments Workarounds for a common irritation using Python and MongoDB.
- Writing a Thousand Deaths
My colleague Andre Spiegel and I contributed to a huge book of essays about death.
- Mongo Conduction: Or, What I Did For Spring SkunkWorks A demo of Mongo Conduction, a server I made that looks like MongoDB and deploys topologies of MongoDB servers for testing.
- Letter From A Prisoner At Sing Sing
On February 7, our meditation group at Sing Sing held a one-day sit to mark its tenth year. This letter of thanks is from one of our members inside.