Sourcery Blog
Thoughts, musings, advice, and best practice tutorials on how to program in Python from the Sourcery team
The Power of Small PRs
The data shows that small PRs increase velocity
Better LLM Prompting using the Panel-of-Experts
How roleplaying a panel discussion can improve LLM results
Don’t tell me what (not) to do!
On the surprising stubbornness of large language models
Unit Testing Code with a Mind of Its Own
Setting up unit tests when your code isn’t deterministic anymore
Faster Code Reviews = Lower Burnout?
What the Accelerate State of DevOps 2023 report tells us about code reviews, DORA metrics, and performance
Code Review - Ideals vs Reality
What the data tells us about teams’ code review practices in the real world
Default Approve
Building an Approval/Rejection Mechanism to Help Teams Move Fast
Finding the Traps We Set for Ourselves
Stopping complex code from sneaking into a project during code reviews
Code reviews are a tax on productivity
We need to rethink how code reviews work
Improving LLM Responses After the Fact
Trying to make optimize review comments for "Usefulness"
Tackling Complex Tasks with LLMs
How we tackle reviewing PRs for code complexity issues
Why Do We Have Code Reviews Anyway?
What's the point of reviews? And are they actually helpful to the development process?
Sourcery's Pricing Plan Shift
Changes in how you can use Sourcery for different types of projects
The Hidden Benefits of Code Reviews
Code Reviews aren't just about the code
Generating Code without Generating Technical Debt?
Delivering and maintaining AI-generated code.
Comparing to None in Python and Pandas
Truthy and falsy values, None, and comparison in Python and Pandas.
When is inplace in Pandas faster?
And when is the `inplace` argument misleading?
Code Review: What And What Not To Automate?
Embracing tools and improving the feedback.
Avoiding Performance Killers in Loops
If it's expensive, only pay it once.
Why You Need Coding Standards
Codified standards can help your team be more productive
Interest Rates Are Rising - Calculating Tech Debt's Actual Impact
Measuring technical debt's ongoing impact
My 3 Worst Python Function Names
3 unclear function names and how to improve them.
Consistent Naming with Voldemort Rules
How to ensure that some names just don't appear in your codebase?
Law of Demeter, Gateway Pattern, and Package Maturity
Some guidelines for dependency rules that make a system easier to understand and maintain.
Maintain A Clean Architecture With Dependency Rules
Disentangle the dependencies between your packages.
Making Our Tests More Concise with Helpers
Helper functions make your code more expressive and less repetitive. Assuming that you really use them.
Chatting with Will McGugan: From Side Project To Startup
Will's journey with Rich and Textual. Including insights about API design and speeding up Python code.
Zero-cost Exceptions and Error Interfaces
Handling and raising errors in Python plus some novelties introduced in 3.11
Chatting with Sebastian Witowski - Part II: Python Community and Developer Tools
Sebastian's work in the Python community: talks, articles, courses. And a favorite topic: developer tools and productivity.
Making the Sourcery CLI More Robust with Rich
Building blocks of a robust CLI App and how we've implemented them with Rich in the Sourcery CLI.
Chatting with Sebastian Witowski - Part I: Code Standards, Tooling, and Working in Teams
How to think about working in teams, consulting, setting common standards for your code, and finding a balance in the CI.
Review Just Your Changed Code
Review only the code in your current PR with Sourcery and incrementally improve the quality of your codebase.
GPSG in Practice / Part 1: the Sourcery Monorepo
How we've been adjusting the Google Python Style Guide for the Sourcery monorepo.
Dark Corners of Our Code - The Impact of Technical Debt - Part II
What leads to unmanageable pieces of codebases
The Impact of Technical Debt - 2022
How much does technical debt impact teams?
Introducing the Google Python Style Guide in Sourcery
A step by step guide towards implementing the Google Style Guide with Sourcery
Real Python podcast
Measuring Python Code Quality, Simplicity, and Maintainability
Dissecting the Google Style Guide
Breaking down how a code style guide can help speed up engineering teams
Maintainability Index - What is it and where does it fall short?
Calculating the Maintainability Index and looking at how you can use it for your projects.
Python Refactorings - Part 8
Six more examples of ways to refactor your Python code, and why they are improvements
How much information is too much information?
The link between complexity, cognitive overloading, and velocity.
Is your code too complicated?
Measuring complexity of your code with two different metrics - Cyclomatic Complexity & Cognitive Complexity
Stackoverflow podcast
Exploring the magic of instant Python refactoring with Sourcery
What Is Technical Debt (and why a bit of it is a good thing)
Technical debt can slow down your development, but focusing too aggressively on refactoring isn't always the right decision either.
Cloudy with a Chance of Python
Deploying a Python program as a Google Cloud Function
Functional Refactoring talk at PyData Eindhoven
Refactoring noughts and crosses into the functional programming style
Real Python podcast
Getting started with refactoring your python code
Podcast.__init__ interview
Make Your Code More Readable With The Magic Of Refactoring Using Sourcery
Python Refactorings - Part 7
Six more examples of ways to refactor your Python code, and why they are improvements
Making lunch faster with Python concurrency
A lunchtime story to demonstrate threading, asyncio, multiprocessing & cloud functions
Python Refactorings - Part 6
Six more examples of ways to refactor your Python code, and why they are improvements
Python Refactorings - Part 5
Six more examples of ways to refactor your Python code, and why they are improvements
Sourcery now available in Sublime!
Instantly refactor your Python code
Introducing Sourcery Pro!
Don't miss out on these powerful new features - write better code faster today.
Sourcery now available in Vim!
Instantly refactor your Python code
Can you fit all of this code in your head?
Measuring how hard code is to understand with our new working memory metric
Python Refactorings - Part 4
Six more examples of ways to refactor your Python code, and why they are improvements
Python Refactorings - Part 3
Six more examples of ways to refactor your Python code, and why they are improvements
Python Refactorings - Part 2
Six more examples of ways to refactor your Python code, and why they are improvements
Talk Python podcast
Refactoring your code, like magic with Sourcery
Python Refactorings - Part 1
Six examples of ways to refactor your Python code, and why they are improvements
How do you test code written by code?
Ensuring Sourcery improves code without changing its functionality
Sourcery Starbot ⭐ released!
Star our repo to refactor your most popular Python repo
Use Sourcery to review your code on GitHub!
Get an instant quality boost to your open source codebase
Python refactorings now available in VS Code with Sourcery!
Get instant Python refactorings as a VS Code extension
Getting the most out of Python collections
A guide to comprehensions, generators and useful functions and classes
GitHub Actions for perfect Python Continuous Integration
A simple GitHub action for formatting, linting, testing, and building a Python application
A Field Guide to Fixing Bugs
Best practices for tracking down and resolving software issues
A perfect way to Dockerize your Pipenv Python application
A simple Dockerfile for setting up a perfect Python application using Pipenv
Five Python Refactoring Tips to Improve Your Code
Easy ways to improve and simplify your code, with Python examples
Sourcery beta launched!
Sourcery is in beta - try our AI-powered refactoring in Pycharm now!
Sourcery now runs locally - plus beta launch next month!
Sourcery will now run locally on your machine, meaning that no code is sent to the cloud. We are also planning to launch into paid beta in October
How to set up a perfect Python project
Best practices for setting up a project to maintain the highest quality code
Refactoring the Gilded Rose kata
16 steps to transform and simplify the code
Introducing Sourcery
Refactor Python instantly using the power of AI
See Sourcery in action
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