I'm Ned Batchelder, a Python software developer and community organizer.
- My personal site is nedbatchelder.com.
- I'm an organizer of Boston Python.
- I'm a member of the Python Docs Editorial Board.
You can find me at:
- Bluesky: nedbat.com.
- Mastodon: @[email protected].
- Libera IRC: nedbat in #python.
- Discord: nedbat in the Python Discord.
My latest blog posts:
- Find the bear, 6 Apr
Connecting with my six-year-old doesn’t go as planned. (read..) - Nedflix, 3 Apr
Well, Anthropic and I were not a good fit, though as predicted it was an experience. I’ve started a new job on the Python language team at Netflix. (read..) - Human sorting improved, 29 Mar
When sorting strings, you’d often like the order to make sense to a person. That means numbers need to be treated numerically even if they are in a larger string. (read..) - Horseless intelligence, 17 Mar
Some thoughts and opinions about AI. In a stretch, I compare AI to automobiles. (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
- Scriv: Changelog management tool
- Dinghy: A GitHub activity digest tool
- WatchGHA: Live display of current GitHub action runs
- Aptus: Mandelbrot fractal viewer
I've also made a few informal projects, some mathy art, and some small utilities:
- pkgsample, an simple example of how to package a Python project.
- Truchet images explores Truchet tiles, and rendering images with them. Blog post.
- Flourish is a harmonograph explorer. Blog post and live site.
- Stilted is a toy PostScript implementation. Blog post.
- Gefilte Fish is a Python-based DSL for writing Gmail filters. Blog post.
- Pydoctor shows details of your Python environment, for troubleshooting.
This is a Markdown page with embedded Python code rendered with cog. See my blog post Cogged GitHub profile for details.
Updated at 2025-04-06 18:21 UTC