• mdformat


• pre-commit-uv


• PEP 758 and 781


• Serie: rich git commit graph in your terminal, like magic


• Extras


• Joke

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Brian #1: mdformat

• Suggested by Matthias Schöttle


• Last episode Michael covered blacken-docs, and I mentioned it’d be nice to have an autoformatter for text markdown.


• Matthias delivered with suggesting mdformat


• “Mdformat is an opinionated Markdown formatter that can be used to enforce a consistent style in Markdown files.”


• A python project that can be run on the command line.


• Uses a style guide I mostly agree with.
  
  
  
  • I’m not a huge fan of numbered list items all being “1.”, but that can be turned off with --number, so I’m happy.
  
  
  • Converts underlined headings to #, ##, etc. headings.
  
  
  • Lots of other sane conventions.
  
  
  • The numbering thing is also sane, I just think it also makes the raw markdown hard to read.
  
  


• Has a plugin system to format code blocks

Michael #2: pre-commit-uv

• via Ben Falk


• Use uv to create virtual environments and install packages for pre-commit.

Brian #3: PEP 758 and 781

• PEP 758 – Allow except and except* expressions without parentheses
  
  
  
  • accepted
  
  


• PEP 781 – Make TYPE_CHECKING a built-in constant
  
  
  
  • draft status
  
  


• Also, PEP Index by Category kinda rocks

Michael #4: Serie: rich git commit graph in your terminal, like magic

• While some users prefer to use Git via CLI, they often rely on a GUI or feature-rich TUI to view commit logs.


• Others may find git log --graph sufficient.


• Goals
  
  
  
  • Provide a rich git log --graph experience in the terminal.
  
  
  • Offer commit graph-centric browsing of Git repositories.
  
  

Extras

Michael:

• Sunsetting Search? (Startpage)


• Ruff in or out?

Joke: Wishing for wishes