I'm Ned Batchelder, a Python software developer and community organizer.

• My personal site is https://nedbatchelder.com.
• I work at 2U/edX on the Open edX project.
• I'm an organizer of Boston Python.

You can find me at:

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

My latest blog posts:

• Small talk, 28 Jul
  Small talk can be hard, but helps build connections with people. (read..)
• Untangle your own adventure, 23 Jul
  Is there any way to self-guide people through complicated Python set-up? (read..)
• Math factoid of the day: 61, 16 Jun
  What’s interesting about 61? (read..)
• Special Olympics swimming, 11 Jun
  The Special Olympics swimming season ended this weekend with the Massachusetts state games. I am a coach on my son Nat’s swim team, and it is one of my favorite things in the world. (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 2023-08-06 02:32 UTC)