Tim Schilling

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Nifty Django Feature: Form Templates

July 22, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

Part of the Nifty Django features series: Form templates allow you to contain your form's customization to just the form, keeping your views nice and clean!

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Nifty Django Feature: Model._meta.get_fields()

July 15, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

Part of the Nifty Django features series: Model._meta.get_fields() lets you walk your related models and build custom cascading deletes.

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Nifty Django Feature: resolve function

July 8, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

Part of the Nifty Django features series: See how Django's resolve function can turn your existing logs into an analytics tool.

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Nifty Django Feature: F Expressions

July 2, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

Part of the Nifty Django features series: learn how F expressions reference model fields in queries, useful for filters, ordering, and race conditions.

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Keeping Up with the Django Community

June 30, 2026 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

The Django community runs on volunteer effort spread across several different groups of people. Most of it is public, but it isn't always easy to find. Here are the public places to find it: Weekly DSF Office Hours (website) DSF Board updates (website, GitHub repo) Steering Council (forum thread, GitHub repo) Website Working Group (forum thread) Online Community Working Group (forum thread) Django Fellow Reports (Jacob, Natalia, Sarah) DSF Office Hours Most of these are places to read and fol…

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Lunch Talk Series: Swiss Army Django: Small Footprint ETL

June 26, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

A review of Noah Kantrowitz's DjangoCon US talk on doing more things within Django, avoiding external services.

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DEFNA’s quiet impact on me and the community

June 17, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

An 'Emeritus' honor made me feel very fancy, and got me thinking about DEFNA's lasting impact on DjangoCon US and the Django community.

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Are you curious about how to contribute to Django?

June 9, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

Want to contribute to Django but don't know where to start? I'm hosting weekly events on the Django Discord to help.

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Lunch Talk Series: Cutting latency in half: What actually worked—and what didn’t

May 29, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

A review of Timothy McCurrach's DjangoCon US talk on tools and systems to improve performance of your application.

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Lunch Talk Series: Async Django: The practical guide you’ve been awaiting for

May 28, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

A review of Carlton Gibson's DjangoCon Europe talk on Django's async landscape back in 2022/2023

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