- Dharma Combat
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis August 2010. Dharma combat with Enkyo Roshi during the Village Zendo's summer ango at Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY. Dharma combat's the most fun you can have at a Zen temple. A senior Zen student or a [ ... ]
- Mongo profiling hacks
Log the line number of your code that made each MongoDB query.
- NYC Python Meetup recap
I went to the NYC Python Meetup tonight at an East Village Bar. We drank, we ate pizza, we fended off recruiters (they knew they couldn't recruit at the meetup proper, but one ambushed me as I left!), and heard two quirky presentations: [ ... ]
- More on Google Reader
Two quick followups to my rant against Google Reader's new UI the other day: Followup the first: A friend from Google points out that you can hit the F key to toggle all the bullshit away and just see your list of articles: In fact, if you hit '?' [ ... ]
- MakerBot in the New York Times
My friend and old Wireless Generation colleague Adam Mayer's 3D-printer startup is featured in the New York Times.
- Unittests' code coverage in PyCharm
PyCharm's my favorite IDE in years. Granted, learning how to use it can be like the first few minutes of Flight of the Navigator, but whenever I begin a new kind of task, PyCharm surprises me with the depth of its feature set. Today was my first [ ... ]
- I'm the new Python Evangelist at 10gen
Photo: Russell Lee Today's my first day at 10gen, working on the Python driver for MongoDB. I have a lot of ideas about what to do next, but we shall see what the next few months bring. My first priorities are to improve testing for pymongo, [ ... ]
- Letter From Buddhist and Yoga Teachers in Support of the Occupy Movement
OWS sign. Photo: David Shankbone. Two awesome thirtysomething Buddhist teachers I've practiced with, Michael Stone in Toronto and Ethan Nichtern here in NYC, have published An Open Letter From Buddhist and Yoga Teachers in Support of [ ... ]
- Balance
My online dharma buddy and fellow Jiryu, Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler, writes: ...silence to noise, stillness to busyness, zazen to work, isn’t necessarily integration—it’s oscillation. So we talk about [ ... ]
- Myoji Sunim gravely ill
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis On of my favorite Zen masters in New York City, Myoji Sunim, is in the hospital. A message from her temple says, Myo Ji Sunim had a massive brain hemorrhage yesterday late afternoon and was brought to St. Luke's [ ... ]