Leonard Richardson

Author of robotfindskitten, Beautiful Soup, "RESTful Web APIs", "Constellation Games", etc. I'm here to share fun and useful things with the world.

Homepage: https://www.crummy.com/
Pronouns: he/him

Last Notes

2026-01-13 17:13:06 UTC

My team at Bookshop.org is hiring a junior software developer. #GetFediHired
https://bookshop.org/info/careers/associate-software-engineer

2026-01-02 16:18:31 UTC

Just got my author copy so I can confirm that my piece "People of the Consortium of Worlds v. Rax, God of Misery" is published in the November/December issue of Analog. Possibly the best short story I've written so far.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/826/386/724/167/196/original/e64b893da2530ebf.jpg

2025-06-20 20:34:23 UTC

I happen to be in Oxford, UK for the weekend. If anyone is nearby and interested in meeting up, please let me know!

2025-02-02 19:42:14 UTC

After a beta process lasting nearly a year, I've released Beautiful Soup 4.13.0. Adds type hints, generated API docs, and access to the low-level matching API.
Highlights: https://www.crummy.com/2025/02/02/0
Full changelog: https://git.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/tree/CHANGELOG

2025-01-06 21:40:41 UTC

I've published Beautiful Soup 4.13.0b3 to PyPI. I'm hoping to get another round of feedback before the final release, which I'm targeting for early February. Details: https://groups.google.com/g/beautifulsoup/c/cX5m7s8v9TM #Python
pip install beautifulsoup4==4.13.0b3

2025-01-06 19:01:38 UTC

2025-01-03 16:02:25 UTC

I rewrote some broken code from 2003 after learning that a number of poets were using it. Now it's part of olipy, my collection of Python art supplies.
https://www.crummy.com/2025/01/03/0
https://github.com/leonardr/olipy/

2024-12-14 14:40:41 UTC

With botsin.space shutting down, I've moved my Mastodon account to wandering.shop. I've also moved my four most popular bots to mas.to: @npub1vgn…h5jh, [@minecraft_ebooks](https://mas.to/@minecraft_ebooks ), @npub1k0d…jya8, and @npub1g0n…30fy. (And @npub14ch…a24p, which is on hiatus after publishing its entire backlog.)