I'm Ned Batchelder, a Python software developer and community organizer.
- My personal site is nedbatchelder.com.
- I'm between gigs. My most recent was at 2U/edX working on the Open edX project.
- I'm an organizer of Boston Python.
You can find me at:
- Mastodon: @nedbat@nedbat.com.
- Bluesky: @nedbat.com.
- Libera IRC: nedbat in #python.
- Discord: nedbat in the Python Discord.
My latest blog posts:
- My flexbox layout, 19 Apr
I recently had to reverse engineer the layout of this site. I created it once upon a time, but had forgotten the details, and to save myself the work five years from now when I have to do it again, I’m noting down what I learned about how it works. (read..) - Try it: function/class coverage report, 15 Apr
I’ve added experimental function and class coverage reports to coverage.py. I’d like feedback about whether they behave the way you want them to. (read..) - Is this for autistic people?, 20 Mar
Special Olympics swim practices just started. A new young athlete joined us, and he asked a question that has stuck with me: is this for autistic people? (read..) - Does Python have pointers?, 11 Mar
People sometimes ask, “Does Python have pointers?” I hate to be the typical senior engineer, but this is one of those questions where the answer is, it depends what you mean by pointer. (read..) - and many more..
I maintain a few Python packages, including:
- Coverage.py: The code coverage tool for Python
- Cog: Small bits of Python computation for static files
- Dinghy: A GitHub activity digest tool
- Scriv: Changelog management tool
- WatchGHA: Live display of current GitHub action runs
- Aptus: Mandelbrot fractal viewer
I've also made a few informal projects, some mathy art, some small utilities:
- Flourish is a harmonograph explorer. Blog post and live site.
- Stilted is a toy PostScript implementation. Blog post.
- Truchet images explores Truchet tiles, and rendering images with them. Blog post.
- Gefilte Fish is a Python-based DSL for writing Gmail filters. Blog post.
- Pydoctor shows details of your Python environment, for troubleshooting.
- pkgsample, an simple example of how to package a Python project.
(made with cog at 2024-05-01 02:36 UTC)