Determinist // Devlog 4 // 2026.08.07

Developer experience and cleanups

What changed

• My code now has comments! Although it is quite straightforward to understand, I did include a few here and there.
• A brand new version command shows what version Determinist is on, what commit it was built from, and the Python version it uses.
• I added more custom error handling to commands

Something funny happened…

I was testing the generation of the default preset, and I forgot to press tab when deleting the Determinist config directory. I only realized that when Hyprland started screaming at me about missing configurations. I thought “that’s weird”, so I checked the command I ran. rm -rf ~/.config/. I deleted my entire configuration directory… Luckily, I had backups, but at least I’ve learned that I should double check my commands.

Another Typer issue

To absolutely no one’s surprise, Typer didn’t work as intended, once again. It kept reporting the wrong error when running presets subcommands. Turns out it was the callback I wrote to list the presets. It actually ran the check every time a presets command was run, giving the wrong error when a non TOML file was detected in the presets directory. It was a quick fix, but now I’m quite comfortable with Typer.