#379 Constable on the debugging case

Topics covered in this episode:

How to Set Up Pre-Commit Hooks A step-by-step guide to installing and configuring pre-commit hooks on your project.
difftastic
Quarto
constable
Extras
Joke

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Michael #1: How to Set Up Pre-Commit Hooks A step-by-step guide to installing and configuring pre-commit hooks on your project.

by Stefanie Molin
Pre-commit hooks are code checks that run as part of the “pre-commit” stage of the git commit process.
If any of these checks fail, git aborts the commit
Sometimes, we need to bypass the hooks temporarily. For these instances, we can pass the --no-verify option when we run git commit

Brian #2: difftastic

Found this a couple years ago, but really using it a lot now.
Excellent structurally diff tool that compares code based on syntax, not line by line.

Michael #3: Quarto

via Mathias Johansson
An open-source scientific and technical publishing system
Transforming a notebook into a pdf / HTML / MS Word / ePub with minimal effort, or even all formats at once.
Author using Jupyter notebooks or with plain text markdown in your favorite editor.
Write using Pandoc markdown, including equations, citations, crossrefs, figure panels, callouts, advanced layout, and more.

Brian #4: constable

“inserts print statements directly into the AST at runtime “
“If you find yourself aimlessly adding print statements while debugging your code, this is for you. !”
Add decorators like @constable.trace('a', 'b') to functions and you’ll get nice output showing when and how a and b changed.
see also icecream for another fun debugging with print project.

Extras

Brian:

pointers being added to the standard library

A couple weeks old, but still worth covering
Guido’s take on adding this, "Why the hell not?"

Michael:

Python 3.12.3 is out

Joke: Hugo SciFi Award