- 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 [ ... ]
- Against the new Google Reader UI
The update to Google Reader highlights a profound error in Google's interface updates: Each update decreases information density. With Google Reader's new interface, I can see a list of only 12 new articles. I subscribe to 115 blogs, so I [ ... ]
- Eido Roshi Resigns
Photo: Michael Dougan Eido Shimano Roshi has resigned his leadership of The Zen Studies Society, one of the oldest and most traditional Zen groups in the U.S., and his successor, Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi, has taken his place. She [ ... ]
- Pieter Hugo: "Permanent Error"
Photographs from an electronics dump in Ghana.
- My Tools
I've used a lot of software development tools since I first taught myself to program in high school (using Turbo C++ and Windows 3.1 — those were the days). Now I use emacs for quick tasks, but I spend most of my time in: PyCharm PyCharm [ ... ]