Created 10 October 2002, last updated 6 January 2013

These are longer pieces of writing, sometimes textually, sometimes on video.

• Presentations:
  • Pragmatic Unicode, PyCon 2012
  • A Whirlwind Excursion through Python C Extensions, PyCon 2009
  • DevDays Whirlwind Python
  • Python-Aware Python, PyCon 2011
  • Tests and Testability, PyCon 2010
  • Coverage testing, the good and the bad, PyCon 2009
  • Getting Started Testing your Python
  • Loop Like A Native, PyCon 2013
• Software Topics:
  • Asserts
  • Interfaces
  • Erroneously empty code paths
  • Log message style guide
  • Stringification
  • Deleting code
  • Fix error handling first
  • Hex words and Hex color words
  • Engineers are people
  • Exceptions vs. status returns
  • Exceptions in the rainforest
  • Standards misconceptions
  • Metadata is nothing new
  • Destructors instead of catches
  • Python parsing tools
  • A quest for pythonic interfaces
  • How C trace functions really work
  • Subversion on Windows quick start
  • Subversion branching quick start
  • Bare-bones basic Mercurial for Subversion users
  • Stopping spambots with hashes and honeypots
  • Programming madlibs
  • About WHOA
  • Usability testing on the cheap
  • Painless bug triaging
  • Own your data: ad-hoc representations
  • Presentation tips: entertain, educate, practice
  • Software I use
• Hobby Topics:
  • How to make business card cubes
  • How to make coffee stirrer stars
  • How to make a pop-up scene
  • Lattice drawings
• Personal Topics:
  • Wilma Hemenway Batchelder, 1907–1999
  • A good thing about autism
  • My boys' robot movie
  • Parents' choices
  • Victoria Marcus Olds, 1911–2008