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2024 - My year in review

Dec. 30, 2024 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

A look back at my efforts in 2024.

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Deploying a Django App to AWS ECS with AWS Copilot

Dec. 28, 2024 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]

This tutorial looks at how to deploy a Django app to AWS ECS with AWS Copilot.

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Django News - New Django Accessibility Team Members, Performance Pitfalls, and PyCon US 2025! - Dec 27th 2024

Dec. 27, 2024 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Welcome to our new Django accessibility team members The Django Accessibility Team welcomes new members Eli, Marijke, Tushar, and Saptak, who bring valuable expertise to the project. djangoproject.com Articles Django: avoid using .first() when retrieving a unique object Avoid using .first() to retrieve unique objects in Django to avoid unnecessary performance costs from added ordering; instead, use .get() with proper exception h…

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Django: Fail in templates with {% url '' %}

Dec. 27, 2024 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

Previously, I covered using 1/0 to crash Python within minimal typing, useful to quickly answer questions like “does the code even get here?”. Recently, I wanted to do the same in Django templates, to trace if a given template was even being rendered, and under which code paths. It …

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Optimizing SQLite - Building SaaS #210

Dec. 27, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, when worked on the newly migrated JourneyInbox site and focused on the database. Since me moved from Postgres to SQLite, I needed to make sure that SQLite was ready for users. We examined common configuration to optimize the database and applied that config to JourneyInbox.

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Getting Started Contributing to Django

Dec. 25, 2024 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

A collection of resources to help you get started contributing to Django.

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Show Django forms inside a modal using HTMX

Dec. 25, 2024 » Josh Karamuth » [Archived Version]

Learn how to create and edit models using Django forms inside a modal using HTMX

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Welcome to our new Django accessibility team members - Eli, Marijke, Saptak, Tushar

Dec. 24, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Sarah Abderemane, Thibaud Colas and Tom Carrick are pleased to introduce four new members in the Django Accessibility team ❤️. Marijke Luttekes Eliana Rosselli Tushar Gupta Saptak Sengupta Marijke (pronounced Mah-Rye-Kuh) is a freelance web developer who creates human-friendly applications. She is based in Groningen, The Netherlands, specializing in Django, Python, HTML, SCSS, and vanilla JavaScript. She helps companies expand their existing projects, think about new features…

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My approach to running a link blog

Dec. 22, 2024 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]

I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003 - publishing links (which I called "blogmarks") with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a "via" link where appropriate. So far I've published 7,607 link blog posts and counting. In April of this year I finally upgraded my link blog to support Markdown, allowing me to expand my link blog into something with a lot more room. The way I use my link blog has evolved substantially in the eight months since then. I'm g…

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Weeknotes (2024 week 51)

Dec. 20, 2024 » Matthias Kestenholz: Posts about Django » [Archived Version]

Weeknotes (2024 week 51) Building forms using Django I last wrote about this topic in April. It has resurfaced on Mastodon this week. I’m thinking about writing a feincms3-forms demo app, but I already have too much on my plate. I think composing a forms builder on top of django-content-editor is the way to go, instead of replacing the admin interface altogether – sure, you can always do that, but it’s so much less composable… Releases blacknoise 1.2: No real changes, added support for Python …

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