Tim Schilling

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Nifty Django Feature: Admin Form Injection

Aug. 12, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

Part of the Nifty Django features series: A hidden Django admin feature for passing values between windows.

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What I’m looking forward to at DjangoCon US 2026

Aug. 7, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

DjangoCon US is coming up, and I'm pretty dang excited for several reasons. I hope to see you there!

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Nifty Django Feature: Use Exists with Nested QuerySets

Aug. 5, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

Part of the Nifty Django features series: There will come a time when your nested QuerySet performs poorly, when that happens, reach for Exists!

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Nifty Django Feature: setUpTestData

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

Part of the Nifty Django features series: Speed up your tests by using the setUpTestData method.

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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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