diff --git a/jrnl/config.py b/jrnl/config.py
index 1fdded19..b335204b 100644
--- a/jrnl/config.py
+++ b/jrnl/config.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ def scope_config(config: dict, journal_name: str) -> dict:
         return config
     config = config.copy()
     journal_conf = config["journals"].get(journal_name)
-    if type(journal_conf) is dict:
+    if isinstance(journal_conf, dict):
         # We can override the default config on a by-journal basis
         logging.debug(
             "Updating configuration with specific journal overrides:\n%s",
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ def update_config(
     """Updates a config dict with new values - either global if scope is None
     or config['journals'][scope] is just a string pointing to a journal file,
     or within the scope"""
-    if scope and type(config["journals"][scope]) is dict:  # Update to journal specific
+    if scope and isinstance(config["journals"][scope], dict):
         config["journals"][scope].update(new_config)
     elif scope and force_local:  # Convert to dict
         config["journals"][scope] = {"journal": config["journals"][scope]}
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 1a632ea6..673c61df 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1367,28 +1367,28 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ruff"
-version = "0.0.280"
+version = "0.0.287"
 description = "An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust."
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
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+    {file = "ruff-0.0.287-py3-none-win_arm64.whl", hash = "sha256:44bceb3310ac04f0e59d4851e6227f7b1404f753997c7859192e41dbee9f5c8d"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.287.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:02dc4f5bf53ef136e459d467f3ce3e04844d509bc46c025a05b018feb37bbc39"},
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e752aa2e..49ea88fd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ filterwarnings = [
 
 [tool.ruff]
 line-length = 88
+target-version = "py310"
 
 # https://beta.ruff.rs/docs/rules/
 select = [ 
diff --git a/tests/lib/then_steps.py b/tests/lib/then_steps.py
index 7216a23f..84461bc3 100644
--- a/tests/lib/then_steps.py
+++ b/tests/lib/then_steps.py
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ def config_var_on_disk(config_on_disk, journal_name, it_should, some_yaml):
     expected = YAML(typ="safe").load(some_yaml)
 
     actual_slice = actual
-    if type(actual) is dict:
+    if isinstance(actual, dict):
         # `expected` objects formatted in yaml only compare one level deep
         actual_slice = {key: actual.get(key) for key in expected.keys()}
 
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ def config_var_in_memory(config_in_memory, journal_name, it_should, some_yaml):
     expected = YAML(typ="safe").load(some_yaml)
 
     actual_slice = actual
-    if type(actual) is dict:
+    if isinstance(actual, dict):
         # `expected` objects formatted in yaml only compare one level deep
         actual_slice = {key: get_nested_val(actual, key) for key in expected.keys()}
 
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ def assert_output_field_content(field_name, comparison, expected_keys, parsed_ou
                 my_obj = my_obj[node]
 
         if comparison == "be":
-            if type(my_obj) is str:
+            if isinstance(my_obj, str):
                 assert expected_keys == my_obj, [my_obj, expected_keys]
             else:
                 assert set(expected_keys) == set(my_obj), [
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ def assert_output_field_content(field_name, comparison, expected_keys, parsed_ou
                     set(expected_keys),
                 ]
         elif comparison == "contain":
-            if type(my_obj) is str:
+            if isinstance(my_obj, str):
                 assert expected_keys in my_obj, [my_obj, expected_keys]
             else:
                 assert all(elem in my_obj for elem in expected_keys), [