A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
How To Check All Your Feeds With One Tool
How My Blog Handles Math and Images in HTML, Atom, and Email in 2025
Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 2
Speak Up If You're Stuck in a Zazen Rut
Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 1
Optimizing a Meditation Retreat with a SAT Solver
Aerial Silks in the Gunks
RIP Sojourner
From Python Programmer to Distributed Systems Researcher in 10 Years Without a PhD
Taming Google Scholar Alerts
Gunks, June 2025
Genuine Climbing retreat for women with cancer
Opus 40
Can We Rely On Timers For Distributed Algorithms?
Conformance Checking at MongoDB: Testing That Our Code Matches Our TLA+ Specs
MongoDB and CS Education for All, Part 2
MongoDB and CS Education for All, Part 1
Liza Mills
Jesse's Notes from the Antithesis BugBash Conference
Are We Serious About Using TLA+ For Statistical Properties?
Jesse's 2025 TLA+ Community Event Notes
Holy Week at Christ Episcopal Church
Mohonk Preserve Rangers, part 2
How Long Must I Test?
Zen priest Kenzen in New York City
Arjuna's Dilemma
Mohonk Preserve Rangers
Gravity Vault Climbing Team
Red Rocks
Review: SwiftPaxos: Fast Geo-Replicated State Machines
Mixed-Media Climbing Art
New Paltz in the Fall
Dustin Portzline
Which Beings Are Sentient?
Winter 2024 Meditation Retreat
Is an Enlightened Person Afraid of Illness and Death?
Peter's Kill in the Snow
Supper's Ready
Predictive Scaling in MongoDB Atlas, an Experiment
Burial Vessel
Fossymandias
Climbing at Bonticou Crag
Join Me At NYC Systems October 17
Antlion Crag
Are You Prepared To Save A Life?
Review: Amazon MemoryDB: A Fast and Durable Memory-First Cloud Database
What's Next for Women in Tech?
Coaching Will Be The Last Human Job
Summer Meditation Retreat
Lights Out Climbing
New Abbot Ceremony
Climbing in Lost City
Mohonk Trail Builders
Absurdland in the Gunks
Bonticou Crag
Review: Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale
Review: Timestamp as a Service, not an Oracle
How To Use MongoDB Causal Consistency
Monks at Holy Cross, part 2
Jyakuen's Shuso Hossen
Monks at Holy Cross
Bodhisattvas Always Smile
Ordination at Christ Episcopal
Climbing in Puerto Rico
Review: Antipode: Enforcing Cross-Service Causal Consistency in Distributed Applications
Review: Leases: An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Distributed File Cache Consistency
Review: Exploiting a Natural Network Effect for Scalable, Finegrained Clock Synchronization
Review: Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks
Sojourner
Bonticou Crag and Table Rocks
Dickie Barre
Village Zendo's Winter 2023 Meditation Retreat
Java Modelling Tools
West Trapps Bouldering
Fall in the Gunks
Review: Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB
Ivan
Peter's Kill at Dusk
RIP Shirley
Review: PolarDB-SCC: A Cloud-Native Database Ensuring Low Latency for Strongly Consistent Reads
Review: Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action
Review: SelfTune: Tuning Cluster Managers
Climbing and Falling, 2
Climbing and Falling
Gunks Climbing Photos
Consistency and Isolation for Python Programmers
Pseudocode Is Not Durable
Review: Distributed Reset
Review: Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation
I'm Tithing Ten Percent of My Income to Effective Charities
Review: Paxos Quorum Leases: Fast Reads Without Sacrificing Writes
Village Zendo's Winter 2022 Meditation Retreat
Paper Review: Rex: Replication at the Speed of Multi-core
New Paltz Zen Center
After 244 Days Off
Paper Review: C5: Cloned Concurrency Control that Always Keeps Up
Psilocybin session at Johns Hopkins
Words Added To Merriam-Webster The Year I Was Born
Bouldering in Peter's Kill
Shugo's Shuso Hossen
Notes from HPTS 2022