July 1936.

July 1936.

There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lover enters the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.

A love story is not about those who lose their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing — not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

Beyond Electric Sheep

I’ve been digging into Phillip K. Dick’s back catalog and finding a few wacked-out gems. Much of his work focuses on and draws inspiration from his periods of on-again off-again drug use. They’re difficult and flawed reads at times, but the concepts are just as fresh as they were almost a half century ago.

A few titles I’ve enjoyed are:

• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - a psychedelic odyssey of hallucinations-within-hallucinations
• Ubik - A layered and labyrinthine space opera
• A Scanner Darkly - I love me some Keanu but the book is better

Of course, if you haven’t read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep that’s not to be missed.

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Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python

Howdoi is a code search tool that has been used by countless developers, hacker schools, and students to help with common coding tasks. It was a pleasure to write and has dozens of contributors to the codebase on Github.

Recently howdoi was featured in Kenneth Reitz’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python published by O’Reilly. There is a section on writing great code that recommends reading others’ work to learn how to craft better code. I’m honored howdoi was chosen as an exemplary project.