Nathan R. Yergler

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I was in the studio last week, printing a new piece, the Tower Theater.

Long running branches are a personal pet peeve of mine: I’d much rather put the effort into managing feature flags, etc than I would into merging a branch that’s diverged significantly.

After lots of false starts, I’ve actually gained some momentum on updating Effective Django.

Sketchbook from today’s visit to the Matisse-Diebenkorn exhibit at SFMOMA.

Back in the studio this weekend, experimenting with graphite ink from Gamblin.

Do all dependency management systems trend toward lock files?

Working on an update for Effective Django, I spent a little time looking at Pollen and Racket this week trying to understand how it’s different/better than Sphinx.

If I had something in the works that I felt I could label an “essay”, I think I’d feel pressure.

Hi, my name is Nathan, and I’m a writer and printmaker .

I was first introduced to doctests working on Zope 3 at early PyCon sprints.

It’s been nearly four years since I first wrote about nested formsets .

I'm blogging my way through Gary Bernhardt's excellent Destroy All Software series of screencasts.

I just uploaded Hieroglyph 0.

I'm blogging my way through Gary Bernhardt's excellent Destroy All Software series of screencasts.

Some people blog their way through Knuth or SICP .

Brandon Rhodes delivered the keynote at PyOhio yesterday[1]3{#id1.

Fast Pass: 3" x 5" two plate linocut print Last week when I was printing my line study, I had a couple extra hours in the studio.

I’ve been on the road a little more than a week now, back to back conferences.

Untitled (coffee cup line study): 4" x 5" linocut print I wanted to practice using lines to describe, rather than outline, shapes and surfaces, so I took a picture of a coffee cup on a sunny day and decided to try and make a print from it.

Candlestick Point: 8" x 10" linocut print, printed on Magnani Pescia A dear friend sent me a photograph she took from Candlestick Point shortly after I made a print of a canal in Amsterdam.

I’m going to be presenting my introductory Django tutorial, Effective Django at OSCON later this month.

Welcome Home: 5" x 7" two plate linocut print, printed on Rives BFK Richard and I just moved from South Beach back to the area I lived in when I first moved to San Francisco, and we first started dating.

As I mentioned last month , there were a few improvements to Hieroglyph sitting in the master branch, awaiting a release.

The PyCon sessions wound down today, so I’m finally coming up for air.

Working on my PyCon tutorial (next week!

If you’re using Hieroglyph for generating slides with Sphinx , you may want to use the version in git rather than the release.

Untitled (Bay Bridge): 8" x 10" four plate linocut print, printed on Rives BFK Shortly after I finished “Golden Gate” last year I decided I needed to do a companion piece depicting the other bridge in San Francisco.

Golden Gate: 8" x 10" linocut print with watercolor, printed on Rives BFK In the process of working on Golden Gate last year, I printed the black plate on its own a few times.

PyCon (the US variation , at least), is about a month and half away, and once again I’m looking at the schedule of presentations and events and wondering how it is the community pulls it off every year.

Days Getting Shorter: 8" x 10" Two Plate Linocut, printed on Rives BFK This was a fun piece to work on.

One of the persistent areas of confusion for many Python developers is Unicode strings, byte strings, and how they interact.