lots of great ideas and info in this podcast on the advantages of meditation. Sam Harris interviews Joseph Goldstein. Waking Up with Sam Harris: #63 — Why Meditate?

For my talk for the Pasadena Python meetup, I published a version to my YouTube channel. It's only five minutes!Thanks to http://mografmike.com/ for the graphics! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCPTc79oVg8

giving a lightning talk tonight! 7pm UTC-7 "Pomodoro is Agile" for the Pasadena Python Developers group. It's virtual, so anyone can enjoy! https://www.meetup.com/Pasadena-Python-Devs/events/269430139/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVEWdatM8Uk&t=707s This is a reaction to "What Will The Next 10 Years Of Continuous Delivery Look Like?" by Dave Farley and Jez Humble, linked above. I adore Jez's books including "Accelerate", so I was thrilled to find a video they posted recently as part of the DeliveryConf conference. In life (and production deployments) we want specific Outcomes, so we have Plans to get the outcomes, which are a series of Actions. Unfortunately there's gaps everywhere. Our Actions don't necessarily result in the Outcomes we want. Our Outcomes give us information -- but very little -- to apply to another round of Plans. And so forth.So if we can't plan our way to get what we want, what do we do?We do everything (have Outcomes, via Plans, which are a list…

I'm so excited! I'll be speaking at the Write The Docs meetup. The slides are in in Google Slides The short URL is http://bit.ly/jta-agilepom Many thanks to Mike Rainey for the wonderful graphics!

This is in prep for my talk next week. So exciting!

Real Time Web sans Node by Michael Irani presented at LA Django meetup in March, 2014 slides - source

I'm speaking at this month's SoCal Python Meetup!  I'll post slides and notes here soon. http://www.meetup.com/socalpython/events/224586741/

Example: Postgres, which runs on port 5432: lsof -Pn | awk '/:5432..LISTEN/ {print $2}' | xargs -t kill Does anyone know if Brew or something has the equivalent of good old Linux fuser -k 5432 ?

if y'all have a company and are considering making it mostly remote/distributed, track down talks by Mitchell "Hashicorp" Hashimoto. His co makes Vagrant and Terraform and Packer and Vault. Anyway he gave a talk in which he talked about having a mostly-distributed company. He said a lot of things were much cheaper (renting offices), but a lot of things were more expensive/awkward (per-site licensing for video equipment). Overall he called it "a wash" Here's the talk, recorded at Replicated in Culver City, CA => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV5doaYReyU