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A lightweight macOS GUI for viewing git diff output. The ease of a visual diff viewer, the power of a command-line diffing tool.

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Python's Type Checking Renaissance

You may have heard that TypeScript has been taking the web development space by storm in the last few years , bringing to it static types. I believe the same thing is starting to happen in the world of Python, where type checkers like mypy , Pyre , and Pyright are increasingly used, at least where Python is used by…