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: @[email protected].
- Bluesky: @nedbat.com.
- Libera IRC: nedbat in #python.
- Discord: nedbat in the Python Discord.
My latest blog posts:
- Coverage at a crossroads, 21 Jun
This is an interesting time for coverage.py: I’m trying to make use of new facilities in Python to drastically reduce the execution-time overhead, but it’s raising tricky questions about how coverage should work. (read..) - Math factoid of the day: 62, 16 Jun
The rhombicosidodecahedron has 62 faces and is more common than you’d think. (read..) - One way to fix Python circular imports, 28 May
Python circular imports can be confusing. Simply using a different form of import can sometimes fix the problem. (read..) - Echos of the People API user guide, 22 May
A few brief notes on some things that happened at PyCon 2024. (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 2024-07-01 02:42 UTC)