Presents an experimental alternative file format for Jupyter notebooks that plays nicer with version control.

gdb has fantastic support for debugging Python/C extensions. It understands how to print the contents of PyObject * variables using their Python-side representation, and can even print Python tracebacks.

These features are described elsewhere. I suggest visiting that link to see why this is so cool. This blog posting is …

I recently got a Mac Mini so I can start working on Macintosh-specific issues with matplotlib. Thanks again to Hans Petter Langtangen, the Director of the Center for Biomedical Computing at Simula for his gracious donation that supported the purchase.

One of the things I'd like to use this machine …