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  • A debugging tale

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    I ran into an interesting issue debugging the other day … I used isort with pre-commit to automatically sort imports before committing my code. This is a huge time saver and I am very thankful for both tools, as well as black and flake8. They save a ton of time and they instantly boost the quality of your code fixing easy-to-avoid mistakes shaving off debugging time. I did a walk-through video the other day on how to use pre-commit here. One thing that puzzled me though was isort’s behavior on the following test module: When running isort through pre-commit it…


  • Stop obsessing about algorithms

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    We hear it so often: I need to ace algorithms to land a SW job. To a certain extent yes. You surely need to understand what data structure to use and make efficiency trade-offs.