Ned Batchelder
PyCon 2018
16 May
PyCon 2018 is over, and of course I enjoyed the hell out of it. I tweeted a bit this year, so I’ll tell the story partly with tweets. » more..
Money for cotton candy
8 May
My autistic son Nat did something last weekend that got my attention. It’s going to seem like a small thing, and in some ways it is a small thing. » more..
Do one thing
28 April
A famous and popular set of ideas for object-oriented programs are the SOLID design principles. The name is an acronym of the five principles: » more..
Makefile help target
4 April
In a pull request today, I was struck again by the difficulty of providing a “help” target for Makefiles. The make command doesn’t natively have a way to see what targets are available, because the set is dynamic and large, so we are left to cobble things together ourselves. » more..
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Code
software I made
- Aptus ·· a Mandelbrot set explorer
- coverage.py ·· for measuring Python code coverage
- hyphenate ·· for hyphenating words with the Liang/Knuth algorithm
Text
words I wrote
- Pragmatic Unicode ·· how to stop the pain
- Python Names and Values ·· how assignment works
- Kindling projects ·· small projects for new programmers