A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- Python's += Is Weird
Image: William Warby on Flickr Here's a Python gotcha I've hit often enough to merit a blog post: x += 1 is weird in Python. It's compiled roughly like x = x + 1, with two surprising consequences. One is this familiar pitfall: >>> x = 0 [ ... ]
- Amaryllis
- Chodo
Last weekend I photographed my friend Chodo, a priest at the Village Zendo, caring for a friend in hospice.
- MotorConnection Has Been Renamed MotorClient
- Yes, Every MongoDB Driver Supports Every Command
- Scatter Sites
This week I met three people who receive some assistance from a transitional-housing organization but don't live in a facility; they live independently in "scatter sites."
- Boxing in the Basement
In late 2010 I was photographing for The Lo-Down, the Lower East Side news site founded by my friends Traven Rice and Ed Litvak. Traven and I heard about a basement boxing gym run in the Vladeck Houses by a guy named Lou, so we went to meet him and [ ... ]
- Hungry Ghosts
Each summer during our meditation retreat, the Village Zendo holds a ceremony to feed the hungry ghosts: all those suffering and unsatisfied. Here's my teacher Enkyo Roshi leading the ceremony. Every mistake I can make in the darkroom I [ ... ]
- Reading from MongoDB Replica Sets with PyMongo
- The Chuang Tzu I had a Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance moment today at the bike shop, watching the guy fix my tire. He hadn't worked on a Brompton before so he took apart the shifting assembly thoughtfully, then he pulled off the rear wheel and the [ ... ]