In retrospect, my article yesterday about WSGI Lite made a rather glaring mistake: instead of carefully laying out the background rationale and explaining where WSGI Lite fits in to today’s Python world, I threw a bunch of links at people and went...
Almost a decade ago, back when I first proposed the idea of WSGI to the Web-SIG, I had a rather idealistic vision of how WSGI could be a kind of “framework dissolver”. I envisioned a future in which everything was pluggable, and there would no...
Have you ever had something you wanted to achieve, that always seemed just out of reach?Every day, every month, every year, you think, “this is it, I’m finally going to do it…”And then you don’t.For about the past two years or so, I was doing that...
The other day I was looking around at “tree” model libraries for Django, and I noticed that there are an awful lot of algorithms people use to manage hierarchies in SQL out there, but the one that is simplest (at least in my view) seems to not be...
So, this is an article all about how, life got flipped turned upside down… No, wait, nevermind. Bad idea.Seriously though, I was about to try and put some preface onto this to take the sting off, so I can tell myself that people were warned and if...
Recently, I’ve been scouting around the web for examples of what people have been doing with PEAK-Rules (and the older RuleDispatch package) to get an idea of what else I should put in (if anything) before making the first official release.One of...
There’s an old story that goes like this:Once upon a time, there was a boy who ate too much sugar. His mother, who wanted him to stop, thought that if the boy wouldn’t listen to her, then perhaps he would listen to his idol, Mahatma Gandhi.So she...
In addition to working on the newsletter and CD, during the last couple days I’ve been working on some “framework” issues on the book.When I was writing the first version, each chapter was an adventure unto itself, with no particular standard way of...
So I’m late once again putting out my monthly newsletter and CD… and don’t even get me started on how late the book is.I fight with myself about this stuff all the time, because on the one hand, I want to be neat and timely and well-organized and...
For the last year or two, I’ve been trying hard to understand the real difference between naturally successful people and naturally struggling people. That is, why do some people seem to have so few problems getting things done and going after...
I just wrote my first article for LessWrong.com: Spock’s Dirty Little Secret.It’s about how I learned the limits of logic, and the importance of emotion to actually making decisions or getting anything done. I wrote it more for the current audience...
So a couple nights ago, it’s Valentine’s Day, and Leslie and I are talking about what – if anything – we’re going to do that evening. Eat out, eat in? Go to a movie? A show? What?And as we’re lying there in bed, throwing options back and forth...
