March 29, 2024

Django News - πŸŽ‰ Sarah "New Django Fellow!" Boyce πŸŽ‰ - Mar 29th 2024

News

Sarah Boyce is the newest Django Fellow! Read more about her background as a software developer and active member of the Django community.

djangoproject.com

PyPI temporarily halted new project creation and new user registration following an onslaught of package uploads that executed malicious code on any device that installed them.

arstechnica.com

Django Events Foundation North America (DEFNA), the non-profit behind DjangoCon US is looking for another board member.

defna.org

Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Pradhvan from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 12 pull requests merged into Django by 7 different contributors - including 2 first time contributors! Congratulations to Laurent Lyaudet, and Sharon Woo for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

In Django 5.1, an optional srid argument was added to FromWKB and FromWKT GIS functions that allows to specify the SRID (Spatial Reference System Identity) of the resulting geometry.

Django Newsletter

Wagtail CMS

A few lessons learned by the author during their first time working on a large-scale open-source project.

wagtail.org

Articles

How and when to use Streaming HTTP responses and when not to.

pecar.me

Are you a developer who uses macOS, and do you want to add project names to your localhost development URLs? Marijke shows us how.

marijkeluttekes.dev

Some thoughts on the Django admin given recent online discussions about how it is "ugly."

406.ch

Adam Johnson provides a detailed explanation of ways to speed up the system check framework in Django.

adamj.eu

Former Django Fellow Carlton Gibson has some sage advice on moving your specific issue to the top of the queue in an open source project.

noumenal.es

A look at the work of eight Djangonauts during the most recent 8-week session, which led to 23 merged PRs into Django (29 PRs total), 28 blog posts, 6 Django News "Updates to Django," and more.

djangonaut.space

Given Redis will no longer be released under an open source license, a Postgres core team member weighs in with his own take.

jkatz05.com

Design Articles

Chris Coyier has written a comprehensive guide to the many new additions to CSS.

frontendmasters.com

Tutorials

Eric Matthews explores Python's breakpoint() as a development tool.

mostlypython.com

Sarah Boyce has some quick tips on optimizing queries beyond the N + 1 problem.

jetbrains.com

A short note from Jeff Triplett on working with Signals and a related TIL from Lacey on How I set up django-activity-stream, including a simple test.

webology.dev

Videos

Sarah Abderemane spoke to PyLadies about the Djangonaut Space mentorship program.

youtube.com

Jobs

The Python Software Foundation is hiring a person to help manage the incredible growth of PyPI.

blogspot.com

Django News Jobs

Django Developer at The Developer Society πŸ†•

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Carbon Equity πŸ†•

Full-stack Python Developer at Scalable Path πŸ†•

Django Developer at Ambient

Infrastructure Engineer at The Python Software Foundation

Senior Django Developer at StrΓΆer Media Deutschland GmbH

DevOps Engineer at Lincoln Loop

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Projects

A Flask-inspired way to get going quickly with a Django project. Very alpha but also very, very cool.

github.com

Source code for Django authentication tutorial covering log in, log out, sign up, password change, and password reset.

github.com

A quite large repo from Lacey Henschel on TIL (Today I Learned) examples, often with code.

github.com


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