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

My latest blog posts:

• Making git hooks visible, 11 Oct
  A terminal prompt technique to see the status of git hooks. (read..)
• Expert asterisks, 27 Sep
  Watching discussions happening online, I see a frequent unfortunate tic I’ll call the Expert Asterisk. A beginner is asking for help, and experts are answering. (read..)
• Silence is golden lightning talk, 16 Sep
  A lightning talk I did at PyCon US 2026 (read..)
• Micro language implementation: Calcium, 22 Aug
  A tiny language, to explain how programming languages are implemented. (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.
• Acidica is a toy BASIC implementation. Blog post.
• 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 2026-10-26 07:59 UTC