- Back From Zen Camp
I got back Sunday from two weeks at the Village Zendo's summer retreat; we did an 8-day sesshin and a weeklong precepts study. I practice shikantaza, and although the word means "just sitting," there is some method to it. Indeed, our study [ ... ]
- Zen Camp
I'll be on retreat with the The Village Zendo through August 13. Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh, Here I am at Camp Bodhisattva All this zazen gives me contusions but I think I'm really tackling my delusions
- Motor: Four Strategies For Maintainability
- Motor Internals: How I Asynchronized a Synchronous Library
How and why I wrote Motor, my asynchronous driver for MongoDB and Tornado.
- Introducing Motor, an asynchronous MongoDB driver for Python and Tornado
- Meditate NYC 2012
This is my fifth year photographing Meditate NYC, organized by the New York Buddhist Council since 2007. It's an all-day event in Manhattan where a dozen teachers share 20-minute talks. Full photo set.
- How Should I Learn TCP?
As a maintainer of a database driver, I need to understand TCP a thousand times more deeply than I do now. I want to know about windows and Nagle and keep-alive and every little detail. What's the best book or online course?
- Copying A Python Function's Signature
A supplement to functools.wraps.
- Review of "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford
An obsessive and eccentric book, but well worth reading.
- Syntax Highlighting With PyCharm, Pygments, and Keynote
I'm prepping talks for a few conferences. I think I've got my workflow down for syntax highlighting slides in Keynote on my Mac. 1. "pip install pygments", not in a virtualenv but in your default Python. 2. Make a Bash script [ ... ]