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.
• I work for an AI company, but have concerns about AI.

You can find me at:

• Mastodon: @[email protected].
• Libera IRC: nedbat in #python.
• Discord: nedbat in the Python Discord.
• Bluesky: nedbat.com.

My latest blog posts:

• My politics, 21 Nov
  I am a liberal, and I am proud to fly the American flag. (read..)
• Loop targets, 19 Nov
  People were surprised by my example of assigning to a dict item in a for loop. Here’s more explanation. (read..)
• Me on On the Board, 10 Nov
  I was on episode 4 of the On The Board podcast: Taking on New Challenges. I’m never quite sure what parts of my experience people will relate to, but it was a good chat with Jason and Michael about becoming a newb late in my career. (read..)
• Coverage.py originally, 2 Nov
  Coverage.py was started in 2001 but not by me. It’s interesting to see how small it started (350 lines!) and how far it’s come (20k lines). (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, 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 2024-11-27 02:52 UTC