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		1337shadow on April 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging > you’ll have breakpoints set that aren’t necessarily needed at the moment, meaning you have to continue a bunch of times to get to the right spot. Python: if something: breakpoint() Js: if (something) debugger; Much easier than breakpoint conditions in visual debuggers imho.

boatsie on April 25, 2021 [–]

That runs the risk of forgetting to remove it.

1337shadow on April 26, 2021 | [–]

If you don't read your commits before pushing or even merging them ... But I use `git add -p` and `git checkout -p` which works well against this

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