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Saturday, 5th March 2022

TIL pytest coverage with context — [This tweet](https://twitter.com/mariatta/status/1499863816489734146) from \@Mariatta tipped me off to the ability to measure "contexts" when [running coverage](https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/6.3.2/contexts.html#context-reporting) - as a way to tell which tests exercise which specific lines of code.

Why I invented “dash encoding”, a new encoding scheme for URL paths

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Datasette now includes its own custom string encoding scheme, which I’ve called dash encoding. I really didn’t want to have to invent something new here, but unfortunately I think this is the best solution to my very particular problem. Some notes on how dash encoding works and why I created it.

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