#379 Constable on the debugging case

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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