Ned Batchelder's blog

Frank Wiles wrote about an attack he nearly fell victim to: a downloaded git repo had active git hooks that would have compromised his system.

Watching discussions happening online, I see a frequent unfortunate tic I’ll call the Expert Asterisk.

This is a lightning talk I did at PyCon US 2026: Silence is Golden.

I wrote a tiny language implementation: Calcium.

I’ve had an idea rattling around to get more detail from coverage measurement.

My latest fun project is a BASIC interpreter called Acidica.

My mother is 86, and she is declining.

I saw this dodecahedron with an Islamic-inspired pattern designed by Taj Ragoo.

Perhaps because 64 is a power of two, and a square and a cube, but also for other reasons, it pops up in lots of places.

There are many historical artifacts and monuments in Boston.

This is the mascot for Boston Python.

Last week was PyCon US in Long Beach California.

One of the hard parts of moving from school to “the real world” is adjusting to all the ways that school is artificial.