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📅 Today’s Picks

Query GitHub Issues with Natural Language Using LangChain

Problem

Have you ever spent hours clicking through GitHub pages to understand project status, track bugs, or review recent changes? Manual repository analysis wastes development time that could be spent building features.

Solution

LangChain’s GitHubIssuesLoader converts repository issues and PRs into searchable content that responds to natural language questions about bugs, features, and project status.

This method integrates seamlessly with LangChain workflows.

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Mock External APIs for Fast, Reliable Tests

Problem

Testing with real APIs and databases is slow, expensive, and unreliable.

External dependencies create flaky tests that can fail due to network issues, rate limits, or service downtime rather than code problems.

Solution

The patch decorator replaces external calls with controllable mock objects for isolated testing.

Key benefits:

• Reproducible results across different machines
• Fast, reliable tests that focus on your logic
• Test edge cases and error conditions that are hard to trigger naturally

Test your data processing logic without waiting for external services or consuming API quotas.

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☕️ Weekly Finds

filprofiler [Performance Profiling] – A Python memory profiler for data processing applications with native Jupyter support

organize [Automation] – The file management automation tool for sorting, renaming, and organizing files

plotnine [Data Visualization] – A Grammar of Graphics for Python based on ggplot2 for data visualization

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