- Bodhisattvas Always Smile
We vow to bear witness to the world's suffering, but there's no reason to be gloomy about it. Let's be cheerful bodhisattvas!
- Ordination at Christ Episcopal
March 5, 2024. An ordination ceremony for Emily Carter at Christ Episcopal Church in Poughkeepsie.
- Climbing in Puerto Rico
February 2024. Photos of my friends sport-climbing on the limestone crags near San Juan.
- Review: Antipode: Enforcing Cross-Service Causal Consistency in Distributed Applications
A 2023 paper about an interesting new consistency level for microservices.
- Review: Leases: An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Distributed File Cache Consistency
The 1989 paper that invented timed leases for consistency in distributed systems.
- Review: Exploiting a Natural Network Effect for Scalable, Finegrained Clock Synchronization
A 2018 paper with an algorithm to tightly synchronize clocks between servers, and measure one-way latency.
- Review: Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks
A protocol like Fast Paxos, with some interesting optimizations.
- Sojourner
January 1, 2024. Our young Chinese dwarf hamster Sojourner.
- Bonticou Crag and Table Rocks
November 25, 2023. Hiking the Bonticou Crag and Table Rocks loop in the Gunks, upstate New York.
- Dickie Barre
December 1, 2023. Climbing with Jennifer in the Dickie Barre area of Peter's Kill, the Gunks.