Ned Batchelder
Goodbye Freenode
13 June
For the last month or so, the IRC world has been embroiled in drama over the new ownership of Freenode. For me, it culminated yesterday when I was banned from Freenode. » more..
What’s in which Python 3.7–3.9?
17 May
This is the fourth in a series of summarizations of what’s in each release of Python. The first three were: » more..
Cherry-picking a pull request
16 May
At work, we work in GitHub pull requests that get merged to the main branch. We also have twice-yearly community release branches, and a small fraction of the main-branch changes need to be copied onto the current release branch. » more..
Shazam for fractals?
19 April
Is there any way to find the coordinates of a Mandelbrot image from the image? Even a guess as to the rough neighborhood? » more..
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- Flourish ·· a harmonograph explorer
- coverage.py ·· for measuring Python code coverage
- Scriv ·· for managing changelogs
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- Python Names and Values ·· how assignment works
- Kindling projects ·· small projects for new programmers
- Pragmatic Unicode ·· how to stop the pain