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.
You can find me at:
- Mastodon: @nedbat@nedbat.com.
- Bluesky: nedbat.com.
- Libera IRC: nedbat in #python.
- Discord: nedbat in the Python Discord.
My latest blog posts:
- Human.json, 22 Mar
human.json is an interesting idea, but comes with the usual semantic web problems. (read..) - Pytest parameter functions, 27 Feb
Pytest’s parametrize can be made even more powerful with your own helper functions to build test cases. (read..) - EdText, 9 Feb
edtext is a utility inspired by the ed editor for selecting and manipulating lines of text. (read..) - Testing: exceptions and caches, 25 Jan
Nicer ways to test exceptions and to test cached function results. (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
- Linklint: A Sphinx extension to reduce excessive linking
- Dinghy: A GitHub activity digest tool
- WatchGHA: Live display of current GitHub action runs
I've also made a few informal projects, some mathy art, and some small utilities:
- pkgsample, an simple example of how to package a Python project.
- edtext, a utility for selecting and manipulating text using ed-inspired addressing. Blog post.
- 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.
- Aptus is a Mandelbrot toy.
This is a Markdown page with embedded Python code rendered with cog. See my blog post Cogged GitHub profile for details.
Updated at 2026-03-30 03:39 UTC