Farshid/Ashouri

programming

6 posts tagged “programming”.

  1. 2025

  2. GraphQL fragments

    One of the scripts that builds and deploys datasette.io uses a GraphQL query to retrieve information from GitHub about the repositories used for the various Datasette tools and plugins.

    graphql api optimization programming
    1 min read
  3. 2023

  4. Finding uses of an API with the new GitHub Code Search

    The GitHub Code Search beta is really powerful - it allows advanced search - including regular expression matches - against every public repo on GitHub.

    github code-search api programming cli
    1 min read

  5. GPT-4 for API design research

    I came up with a really useful prompt for GPT-4 today. I was considering options for refactoring how Datasette's core view functions work, and was contemplating alternative ways to dispatch to…

    gpt-4 ai api-design web-frameworks programming
    1 min read

  6. How to call pip programatically from Python

    I needed this for the and commands, see issue 925. My initial attempt at this resulted in weird testing errors ( 928) - while investigating them I stumbled across this comment in the source code: So I…

    python pip cli programming testing
    1 min read

  7. Find local variables in the traceback for an exception

    For sqlite-utils issue 309 I had an error that looked like this: And I wanted to display the values of the and variables as part of a custom error message.

    python debugging exceptions traceback programming
    1 min read

  8. Decorators with optional arguments

    sqlite-utils provides a decorator for registering custom Python functions that looks like this: I wanted to add an optional deterministic=True parameter to the decorator.

    python decorators programming design-patterns
    1 min read