- Faceless Killers
The fall games are out and New York City is plastered with promos, like for Halo 4: For Black Ops 2: Assassin's Creed 3: And this arresting poster for Borderlands 2: You surely see the same pattern I do: they're all faceless. (They're all men [ ... ]
- Motor: Iterating Over Results
- Gloria and Rhoda
I took some more photos of my dwarf hamsters tonight. This is Gloria, as far as I can tell: ... and this must be Rhoda: Rhoda seems to be scratching herself up lately, particularly her nose. But she's tough enough to survive Sandy and I'm sure [ ... ]
- The Whisperers
The New York Times's photo blog has posted a spooky, beautiful project, "The Whisperers" by Kuba Kaminski: In remote northeastern Poland there lives a group of elderly Orthodox devotees who are said to possess special powers. They can [ ... ]
- Hurricane
CREDIT: NOAA/NASA/GSFC/SuomiNPP My girlfriend Jennifer and I survived. We live in Stuyvesant Town at 14th Street and Avenue B, a few blocks from the famous exploding Con Ed power station. Like most of Manhattan south of 40th Street, we [ ... ]
- Upaya
- In Transition
I'm resuming a project I started almost three years ago, taking portraits at transitional housing buildings in NYC. The people in the photos I took last time lived in the facilities when I took their pictures; yesterday I went back to one of [ ... ]
- Optimizing MongoDB Compound Indexes
How to find the best multicolumn index for a complex query.
- Eating Your Own Hamster Food
If you aren't using your own libraries as you build them, you're skipping an essential test: not mainly for correctness or performance but for usability. (Using your software as you develop it is normally called "eating your own [ ... ]
- Motor Progress Report: GridFS, Logo
Two big updates to Motor, my non-blocking driver for MongoDB and Tornado. First, my friend Musho Rodney Alan Greenblat made a logo. Motor may or may not be ready for prime time, but it looks ready. Second, I implemented GridFS. GridFS is a [ ... ]