- "The Middlesteins" by Jami Attenberg
I can't objectively review Jami Attenberg's latest novel, The Middlesteins, because I've known Jami for a couple years and I'm rooting for this book. It is, it turns out, gratifying to root for, because it's a best-seller and was the cover [ ... ]
- Python's += Is Weird, Part II
I wrote the other day about two things I think are weird about Python's += operator. In the comments, famed Twisted hacker Jean-Paul Calderone showed me something far, far weirder. This post is a record of me playing around and trying to [ ... ]
- Mushrooms
- 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 [ ... ]