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.

My latest blog posts:

• Cleaning up a messy branch, 21 Sep
  I had to clean up a messy git branch. Revert commits helped. (read..)
• Cogged GitHub profile, 14 Sep
  My GitHub profile is over-engineered with Cog. Let me explain. (read..)
• Coverage branches instead of arcs, 26 Aug
  As I mentioned in a few recent posts, I’ve been working on some significant work in coverage.py to take advantage of new capabilities in Python. (read..)
• Cherish this time, 11 Aug
  New parents are often told to cherish their time with their new baby. I don’t think this is helpful advice. (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 2024-09-28 02:45 UTC