Ned Batchelder    I’ve had an idea rattling around to get more detail from coveragemeasurement. Can we measure the coverage in a function separately for eachcaller of...

Ned Batchelder    My latest fun project is a BASIC interpreter calledAcidica. Classic BASIC is anold-school language first developed in 1964 that saw an explosion...

Ned Batchelder    My mother is 86, and she is declining. Things that used to be easy for hernow seem completely foreign. She was a programmer, writing software before...

Ned Batchelder    I saw this dodecahedron with an Islamic-inspired patterndesigned by Taj Ragoo. As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to make one. Istudied the pattern,...

Ned Batchelder    Perhaps because 64 is a power of two, and a square and a cube, but also forother reasons, it pops up in lots of places. Here are some of the things I...

Ned Batchelder    There are many historical artifacts and monuments in Boston. This is one ofmy favorites:It’s in the center of theGranary BuryingGround, the third...

Ned Batchelder    This is the mascot for Boston Python.It’s called Snake Way for Ducklings:My son Ben drew it, which makes me very happy. He also drewSleepy Snake....

Ned Batchelder    Last week was PyCon US in Long Beach California. As always, it was ajam-packed intense time. I’ll try to report on my experience. The videos aren...

Ned Batchelder    One of the hard parts of moving from school to the real world is adjustingto all the ways that school is artificial. It’s different from the...

Ned Batchelder    I wrote a Sphinx extension to eliminate excessive links:linklint. It started as a linter to check and modify.rst files, but it grew into a Sphinx...