nedbat / nedbat

nedbat's profile

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

• My personal site is 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: @[e-mail].
• Bluesky: @nedbat.com.
• Libera IRC: nedbat in #python.
• Discord: nedbat in the Python Discord.

My latest blog posts:

• Updated multi-parameter interactive Jupyter notebook, 12 Feb
  A Jupyter notebook with interactive sliders and auto-plotting to run financial simulations (read..)
• One way to package Python code right now, 10 Feb
  A simple example of how to package a Python project when you don’t want to get overwhelmed by confusing options. (read..)
• I am at liberty, 30 Jan
  As of a few weeks ago, I am between gigs. Riffing on some corporate-speak: “2U and I have mutually determined that 2U is laying me off.” (read..)
• You (probably) don’t need to learn C, 24 Jan
  I’m tired of this: “You have to learn C so you can understand how a computer really works.” (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 2024-03-02 02:32 UTC)