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Tips

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Easily update URL querystrings in a template

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How to dynamically update URLs with a template tag.

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Python Package Manager Comparison 📦

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Comparing the different Python package managers in 2023.

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Marketing for Developers

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How to promote your open-source library as a developer to other developers.

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Django News - 21 PRs in One Week to Django Core! - Mar 13th 2026

March 13, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News The Call for Proposals for DjangoCon US 2026 has been extended one week! DjangoCon US 2026 has extended its Call for Proposals deadline by one week to March 23 at 11 AM CDT, giving prospective speakers a little more time to submit their talk ideas. djangocon.us CPython: 36 Years of Source Code An analysis of the growth of CPython's codebase from its first commits to the present day python.org Releases Py…

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Shopify/liquid: Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations

March 13, 2026 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]

Shopify/liquid: Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations PR from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke against Liquid, Shopify's open source Ruby template engine that was somewhat inspired by Django when Tobi first created it back in 2005. Tobi found dozens of new performance micro-optimizations using a variant of autoresearch, Andrej Karpathy's new system for having a coding agent running hundreds of semi-autonomous experiments to find new effective techniques for training nanochat. Tob…

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