- Zencation
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis I'm back in NYC tonight. I spent a few days in Chicago with my girlfriend's family for Christmas, and we're leaving tomorrow for our habitual weeklong Zen retreat with the Village Zendo. I've had a pretty good [ ... ]
- Tornado Unittesting: Eventually Correct
Photo: Tim Green I'm a fan of Tornado, one of the major async web frameworks for Python, but unittesting async code is a total pain. I'm going to review what the problem is, look at some klutzy solutions, and propose a better way. If you don't [ ... ]
- Keep Watching the Skies - Slide Show - NYTimes.com
Keep Watching the Skies - Slide Show - NYTimes.com.
- The Rise of Developeronomics
I have some thoughts about Venkatesh Rao's Forbes article, "The Rise of Developeronomics". The article, in brief, argues that "software is now the core function of every company, no matter what it makes," and that, as "software eats the [ ... ]
- August Sander and Seydou Keïta
Photo: August Sander I trudged to Chelsea through the disgusting rain tonight for a lecture on August Sander and Seydou Keïta at The Walther Collection. Art historians Shelley Rice and Lisa Binder gave a quick, entertaining [ ... ]
- Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois. More Chicago pix on Flickr.
- More photos of Scott
Photos: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis More photos from September of Scott in Chicago. More Chicago pix on Flickr.
- Book: MongoDB In Action
My colleague at 10gen Kyle Banker has published his book MongoDB in Action: MongoDB in Action is a comprehensive guide to MongoDB for application developers. The book begins by explaining what makes MongoDB unique and describing its [ ... ]
- Photo Fire Sale - Everything Must Go!
Luca Pizzaroni. Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis I want to sell the remainder of the prints from my solo show at the Lower East Side Visitor Center. All prints are sold framed, 16 inches square for $75. View these prints at the Lower East Side [ ... ]
- Spontaneous Shrines
Spontaneous shrine in Kern County, CA. Photo: Shady Grove Oliver My friend Shady Grove Oliver blogs about spontaneous shrines. She writes that a "type of stranger-ritual is performed by passersby who stop or change course specifically [ ... ]