I'm Ned Batchelder, a Python software developer and community organizer.
- My personal site is https://nedbatchelder.com.
- I work at edX on Open edX.
- I'm an organizer of Boston Python.
You can find me at:
- I'm @nedbat on Twitter.
- On Libera IRC, I'm nedbat in #python.
- I'm sometimes in the Python Discord.
Blog posts
Recent blog posts:
- Load-balanced xdist, 11 Dec 2021
I wrote a pytest plugin to evenly balance tests across xdist workers. (read..) - Computing a GitHub Action matrix with cog, 7 Nov 2021
Here’s how I used embedded Python code to generate a complex GitHub Action matrix. (read..) - Coverage goals, 1 Nov 2021
There’s a feature request to add a per-file threshold to coverage.py. I didn’t add the feature, I wrote a proof-of-concept: goals.py. (read..) - Django Chat podcast, 13 Oct 2021
I had a fun conversation on the Django Chat podcast with Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson. It was a great discussion. (read..) - and many more..
My Python packages
I maintain a few Python packages, including:
- Coverage.py: the code coverage tool for Python
- Scriv: changelog generator
- Cog: small bits of computation for static files
- Aptus: Mandelbrot fractal viewer
