Ned Batchelder / is on Nostr

Python, software, coverage.py, typography, juggling, Boston, autism (dad). Laughing at the world doesn't mean I don't take it seriously. He/him.

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2024-09-10 14:53:03

I just noticed this misplaced line that I've walked over hundreds of times. How is your morning going?
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/113/824/036/135/252/original/115f8e6db7d6d3b4.jpg

2024-07-16 19:43:30

I am starting a new job next week at Anthropic: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202407/anthropic.html

2024-06-23 19:50:48

Since #Python's pathlib.Path lets you use `/` to join paths together, why not this to get absolute paths?
abs(Path.home() / "my_file")
https://discuss.python.org/t/add-floordiv-to-pathlib-path-for-strict-append/1077/6

2024-05-25 11:22:02

Small fix to watchgha: don't truncate lists at 30 items (oops!)
WatchGHA reports on GitHub Action progress in a terminal UI.
https://pypi.org/project/watchgha/
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/501/464/760/292/232/original/87e891cac29017ca.png

2024-04-21 18:02:25

Anyone remember what #PyCon talk it was where somehow the captioner got in a discussion with the speaker and typed "I'm in the room" into the captions?

2024-03-13 12:03:51

Holy cow: https://oldweb.today/
Emulated old operating systems running emulated old browsers displaying archived old web content!

2024-02-27 14:49:53

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@npub1urz…39sc I'm not sure if you are saying it, or if you are quoting someone else, and if so, if you agree or not. I think it depends on why we are trying to classify the activity as "coding." There are many important conceptual hurdles to using computer languages like HTML, CSS, even Markdown. We shouldn't look down on people learning those things.

2024-01-20 15:36:12

Tired of this: "learn C so you can understand how a computer really works."
So much of modern computers is not visible from C (pipelining, virtual memory, branch prediction, cache misses, etc).
I guess what they mean is, "you learn about pointers and consecutive memory locations"? How is that helpful for programming in other languages without pointers?
C teaches you an abstraction of computers based on the PDP-11. It's interesting, but it's not essential.

2023-11-30 11:45:00

Mutable default values in #Python surprise people, but it's right there in the name: value, not expression.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202311/say_it_again_values_not_expressions.html
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/499/321/840/071/309/original/90c94f9768cf753c.png

2023-06-13 11:49:35

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@npub1sys…ckr3 That must be a deep cut, because I don't get the reference!

2023-06-13 11:08:23

Why does #Python code come in wheel (.whl) files?
An alternate name for PyPI is the Cheeseshop, after a Monty Python skit about a shop with nothing in stock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A&t=35s
https://cheeseshop.python.org still takes you to PyPI.
How is cheese shipped? In wheels!