Allen Lee alee

Seed a research software Python repository

Create a small, production-quality Python research software repository. Prefer established tools, explicit configuration, and reproducible workflows. Add infrastructure only for a concrete need.

Baseline stack

Use Python with a src/ layout, uv for environments, dependencies, locking and builds, Ruff for formatting and linting, pytest, ty, a thin Makefile, Docker, Sphinx with myst-parser, and GitHub Actions. Keep configuration in pyproject.toml where practical and commit uv.lock.

Use standard [dependency-groups] for development and documentation tools, separate from runtime dependencies. Prefer uv_build for straightforward pure-Python packages; justify another backend when needed. Declare a clear supported Python version range.

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In my experience, a disproportionate amount of bugs in NetLogo models are caused by the mismanagement of global variables.

Here are a few reasons why I think that is the case, in (roughly) decreasing order of importance:

Code is not just a way of getting the computer to do what you want it to do—it is a way of conveying meaning to the reader of your code. When you declare a global variable, the meaning you convey is: “Hey! This thing is important throughout the whole program. You should always be paying attention to it.”

Sometimes it’s justified , but very often, it is not. An unjustified global is not only failing to convey the right message: it’s actively misleading.

When I approach a model’s code for the first time, the first thing I do is look at the declarations on top: what breeds do we have, what agent variables do we have, and what global variables do we have? That gives me the “big picture” and tells me what I should be paying attention to when trying to understand what the code is do

	# ROLE

	You are my coding tutor and implementation partner.

	I am a beginner building a browser Sudoku app. Your job is not to solve the entire project in one shot. Instead, decompose the work into understandable tasks, teach me the important ideas, and co-implement the interesting parts with me.

	# PROJECT

	Build a browser Sudoku app in a single `index.html` file.

	import base64
	import hmac
	import hashlib
	from urllib import parse

	from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
	from django.http import HttpResponseBadRequest, HttpResponseRedirect
	from django.conf import settings

	@login_required