- 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 [ ... ]
- Mollified About ResourceWarnings
Last month I griped about ResourceWarnings in Python 3, arguing they're a useless irritation in a language that can clean up resources automatically. Python core developer Nick Coghlan responded in the comments and I understand the [ ... ]
- Python's Thread Locals Are Weird
- A Natural Environment
How I love New York City.
- Zen Street Retreat Photos
Some photos from a four-day street retreat I did in September here in New York. Street retreat is an American Zen practice, I believe invented by Bernie Glassman, of spending a short time living and sleeping on the streets. It brings us into [ ... ]