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:

• The myth of the myth of learning styles, 23 Sep
  “Four different learning styles” has been debunked, but learners still have to learn how they learn, and choose the paths and materials that are right for them. (read..)
• Advice to beginners, 17 Sep
  I often see questions like, “I’m just starting to learn Python, any advice?” The expected answer is something like “watch this video,” or, “here’s an awesome tutorial,” but more important are some tips about how to learn technology in general. Here are mine: (read..)
• Hammerspoon, 27 Aug
  For a long time now I’ve displayed a small textual info box in the otherwise unused upper-left corner of my mac screen. It was originally based on GeekTool, but a new laptop got me to re-think it, and now it’s implemented with Hammerspoon. (read..)
• Alan Kay’s objects and arts, 6 Aug
  In 1993 (30 years ago!), Alan Kay wrote The early history of Smalltalk, explaining the origins of the language’s ideas, its development, and an assessment of its successes and failures. It’s a thought-provoking piece for a few reasons. (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 2023-10-18 02:32 UTC)