- Psilocybin session at Johns Hopkins
Photos from the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research in Baltimore.
- Words Added To Merriam-Webster The Year I Was Born
Merriam-Webster's time traveler page shows words that were added to the dictionary in a given year.
- Bouldering in Peter's Kill
November 5, 2022. A casual bouldering competition in Peter's Kill, part of the Gunks climbing region in upstate New York.
- Shugo's Shuso Hossen
October 29, 2022. A ceremony at the Village Zendo in which Jeff Shugo Berman gave his first dharma talk and was promoted to senior Zen student.
- Notes from HPTS 2022
I attended my first High Performance Transaction Systems conference, here are my messy inaccurate notes.
- Village Zendo's Summer Meditation Retreat 2022
Photos of my Zen community's first in-person sesshin since December 2019.
- Climbing in Peterskill
May 29, 2022. Photos of my friends climbing in upstate New York.
- Why Should Async Get All The Love?: Advanced Control Flow With Threads
Writeup of my PyCon 2022 talk. How to write safe, elegant concurrent Python with threads.
- Buddhist Groups Supporting Refugees
My Zen group, the Village Zendo, is leading a Buddhist project to resettle refugees in NYC.
- Paper Review: E-Store, P-Store, and Elastic Database Systems
A PhD thesis and two papers about reactive and predictive autoscaling.