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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:

• 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 2024-04-21 02:34 UTC)