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: @nedbat@nedbat.com.
• Libera IRC: nedbat in #python.
• Discord: nedbat in the Python Discord.
• Bluesky: nedbat.com.

My latest blog posts:

• 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..)
• GitHub action security: zizmor, 30 Oct
  Zizmor is a new tool to check your GitHub action workflows for security concerns. I found it really helpful to lock down actions. (read..)
• Git aliases: switch to mainster, etc, 26 Oct
  Some of my more elaborate git command aliases, explained. (read..)
• Changelog automation, 29 Sep
  Some details of custom automation I use for changelogs. (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 2024-11-02 22:30 UTC