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Django News - Wagtail Roadmap

Jeff Triplett (he/him) — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

News

Introducing the Wagtail Roadmap

Curious what's next for Wagtail? There's a roadmap for that.

Deprecation of bdist_egg uploads to PyPI

PyPI will stop accepting .egg uploads starting August 1, 2023. If you maintain and packages on PyPI, you'll want to know this.

pypi.org

Updates to Django

From Django Review and Triage Team Member Sarah Boyce...

Last week we had 10 pull requests merged into Django by 8 different contributors - including 1 first time contributor! Congratulations to Yaser Amiri for having their first commit merged into Django - welcome on board!

Now, from Django 5.0, @sensitive_variables and @sensitive_post_parameters supports async functions!

Are you excited to contribute but not know where to start? Maybe you're interested in migrations? You could add logging of applied/unapplied migrations #24800and then you'd be perfect to add contributor documentation for django.db.migrations #24989! Look forward to welcoming you on board!

github.com

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Articles

COUNTing is hard: A tale of types in SQL and Django

The tale of an ORM bug that took several hours to sort out and led to a deep dive into what was actually going on.

theorangeone.net

QuerySets are Lazy

Exploring the Lazy Evaluation in Django QuerySets

fly.io

State of WASI support for CPython: June 2023

From Brett Cannon, an update on where WASI support for CPython stood today and what he sees happening in the future.

snarky.ca

How to Ditch Codecov for Python Projects

Codecov’s unreliability breaking CI on my open source projects has been a constant source of frustration for me for years. I have found a way to enforce coverage over a whole GitHub Actions build matrix that doesn’t rely on third-party services.

hynek.me

Python Type Hints - Modernized error messages in Mypy 1.4.0

A note on three new improvements to Mypy and how to use them.

adamj.eu

2023 Python Software Foundation Board Nomination for Peolo Melchiorre

Paolo is a prominent member of the Django community and one of the candidates for election on the PSF Board.

paulox.net

Events

Announcement: PyLadies Conference

A PyLadiesCon will take place on the first weekend of December this year, a transformative event designed to promote diversity, learning, and empowerment within the Python community. 🎉

pyladies.com

Tutorials

Modern CSS Solutions

A series examining modern CSS solutions to problems Stephanie Eckles (@5t3ph), a seasoned frontend developer, has been solving for 15+ years.

moderncss.dev

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Videos

DjangoCon Europe 2023: Squeezing Django performance for 14.9 million users on WhatsApp

A talk focused on backend performance, specifically a Django REST API, used to disseminate accurate information about Covid and later manage registrations and bookings for vaccinations.

youtu.be

DjangoCon Europe 2023: Model-View-Controller (MVC) through the ages and in Django

MVC is an architectural pattern with a 50-odd year history that also left an imprint on Django. Can its continuing relevance teach us something about fundamental software design principles?

youtu.be

Projects

worthwhile/django-herald

A Django messaging library.

github.com

codeinthehole/django-cacheback

Smart caching for Django using Celery to refresh cached items asynchronously.

github.com

New Maintainer Needed for the byro project (by end of July)

The Byro project is looking for a maintainer if anyone is interested in continuing the project.

github.com

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Django News - Bringing Locality of Behavior to Django

Jeff Triplett (he/him) — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

News

The 2023 PSF Board Election is Open!

In order to vote in this election, individuals must be a Contributing, Managing, Supporting, or Fellow member as of June 15, 2023, and have confirmed their intention to vote by June 19, 2023.

blogspot.com

Wagtail 5.0.2 release notes

New features and bug fixes in the latest Wagtail version.

wagtail.org

Announcing Our New Security Developer in Residence!

The Python Software Foundation now has a security developer in residence.

blogspot.com

Updates to Django

From Django Review and Triage Team Member Sarah Boyce...

Last week we had 13 pull requests merged into Django by 10 different contributors - including 2 first time contributors! Congratulations to Olivier Le Thanh Duong and Ashwin Dharne for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

This time filtering support was added to GIS aggregate functions, and an offset value was added to StepValueValidator! You will be able to use both of these features in 5.0.

Do you want to add something into Django 5.0? Why don't you update assertContains and assertInHTML to output a haystack on failure #34657? Look forward to welcoming you on board!

github.com

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Articles

Building Search DSLs with Django

What happens when there are too many fields for a UI to search on? Search DSLs can give a user more granular access to searching without exposing an overly complicated interface.

danlamanna.com

Bringing Locality of Behaviour to Django Views and URLs

An attempt via django-view-decorator to bring more locality of behaviour between Django URLs and views. Picking up on the concept first popularized by HTMX and highlighted by Carlton Gibson in his recent DjangoCon Europe talk, among other places.

valberg.dk

Django Model Fields With Attributes

Jacob shows us how to use contribute_to_class, a Descriptor, and a string class to create a custom MarkdownField that can display both text and html.

jacobian.org

Django: A security improvement coming to format_html()

Why format_html() can be dangerous, how to fix it, and why Django 5.0+ now has a patch fixing the issue.

adamj.eu

Tutorials

Caching in Django with Redis

A step-by-step guide on implementing caching with Redis in Django.

fly.io

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Videos

DjangoCon Europe 2023: Use SQLite in production

Tom Dyson revisits the traditional wisdom that SQLite is not suitable for production. He takes a deep look at several real-world examples, comparing its performance against traditional database options (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc). And he explores exciting new developments in the SQLite ecosystem, particularly those which enable its use in machine learning in general and LLMs (large language models) in particular.

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DjangoCon Europe 2023: All about djangoproject.com

Paolo Melchiorre discusses the latest updates to the DjangoProject.com website, ongoing improvements, and exciting new developments.

youtu.be

Podcasts

Django Chat #141: How to Learn Django (Replay)

Carlton and Will discuss how to learn Django whether you are a total beginner or experienced web developer.

djangochat.com

Projects

carltongibson/django-filter

A generic system for filtering Django QuerySets based on user selections.

github.com

mxsasha/django-restricted-sessions

Restrict Django sessions to IP and/or user agent.

github.com

valberg/django-view-decorator/

A very beta but cool decorator aimed at bringing locality of behaviour to the connection between a URL and a view in Django.

github.com

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Django News - Python 3.7 to 3.12 updates

Jeff Triplett (he/him) — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

News

New Python 3.7 to 3.11 releases and 3.12.0 beta 2 are now available

Another combined release of six separate versions of Python including 3.12.0 beta 2!

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PEP 703: Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional (3.12 updates)

A very informed discussion on PEP 703 to make the Python GIL optional.

python.org

Migrate your project to .readthedocs.yaml configuration file v2

An important deprecation announcement from ReadTheDocs: a .readthedocs.yml file will soon be required configuration on all projects.

readthedocs.com

Django Software Foundation

Django Software Foundation June meeting minutes

Meeting minutes for DSF Board monthly meeting, June 8, 2023.

djangoproject.com

Updates to Django

Courtesy of Django Review and Triage Team Member Sarah Boyce...

Last week we had 16 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors - including 3 first time contributors! Congratulations to XDEv11, EBIBO, and Howard Cox for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

This time there were even more accessibility improvements to the Django admin! For example, active row highlighting was added when in forced color mode. Did you know about forced color mode? I didn't! Love learning about how to make the web more accessible.

github.com

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Articles

Writing a chat application in Django 4.2 using async StreamingHttpResponse, Server-Sent Events and PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY

A very, very interesting example of writing a chat application with new Django features. We highly recommend you check this one out!

valberg.dk

Pro-Tip – pytest fixtures are magic!

Pro tips from RevSys CEO Frank Wiles on using pytest fixtures to speed up your Django tests.

revsys.com

Django: A security improvement coming to format_html()

Adam Johnson walks us through how to use format_html and avoid a common XSS (cross-site-scripting) vulnerability.

adamj.eu

Python Software Foundation: Working Groups

Dawn Wages explains how the PSF relies heavily on Working Groups, something the Django Software Foundation is starting to do more with, too.

dawnwages.info

Forum

Adding template fragments or partials for the DTL - Django Internals

A lengthy Django forum discussion on possibly adding inline partials or template fragment features to the Django Templating Language

djangoproject.com

Rejuvenating vs deprecating Form.Media - Django Internals

Another good and deep discussion about Form.Media in Django and the larger question of managing assets in Django.

djangoproject.com

Tutorials

Django ORM and QuerySets Tutorial

Build a recipes app while learning how the Django ORM and QuerySets work. This is a hands-on tutorial that introduces concepts such as chaining, filters, model managers, the Python shell, and more.

learndjango.com

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Videos

DjangoCon Europe 2023: Yak-shaving to Where the Puck is Going to Be

Recently retired Django Fellow Carlton Gibson shares his thoughts on the future of Django and the concept of "locality of behavior." He starts by discussing Class-Based Views and introduces a new project, Neapolitan, an opinionated take on quick CRUD views.

Then he turns to HTMX and another new projects, django-template-partials, which are reusable named inline partials for the Django Template Language.

youtube.com

DjangoCon Europe 2023: Good form: How Django’s form rendering improved during the 4.x series

Under the hood, Django has made several major changes to forms in the 4.x series, including a new default style to replace as_table in Django 5.0. David Smith walks us through how forms work, why the changes were made, and what to expect in 5.0+.

youtube.com

Projects

carltongibson/django-template-partials

Reusable named inline partials for the Django Template Language.

github.com

mkalioby/django-passkeys

Django Authentication Backend Using Passkeys

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Django News - Django bugfix release 4.2.2

Jeff Triplett (he/him) — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

News

Django bugfix release: 4.2.2

Features 11 new bugfixes. See the complete notes for more.

djangoproject.com

Official Django Merchandise

Did you know there is an official Django merchandise store? Represent Django in your community with a t-shirt, sweatshirt, hoody, or baby gear. All proceeds are donated to the Django Software Foundation.

threadless.com

“Boost Your Git DX” available in early access

This is the latest book from Adam Johnson, a member of the Django 5.x Steering Council. His past books include Speed Up Your Django Tests and Boost Your Django DX.

adamj.eu

Updates to Django

Django PRs this week

Courtesy of Django Review and Triage Team Member Sarah Boyce...

On the week starting May 29th, we had 11 pull requests merged into Django by 10 different contributors - including 5 first time contributors! Congratulations to Kacper Wolkiewicz, Christopher Cave-Ayland, AP Jama, Cheuk Ting Ho and Nina Menezes for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Included in this week were some accessibility improvements to the Django admin including enabling user zooming on mobile and adding icon descriptions in "Recent Actions" into 5.0. Big thank you to our accessibility team for helping our new contributors at the sprints!

Are you also interested to learn about accessibility and contributing to Django? Why don't you add labels to the FilteredSelectMultiple widget #34625? Look forward to welcoming you on board!

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Articles

Django Simple Settings

Could a single settings file make life easier?

markw.co.uk

A new tutorial for Neapolitan

One happy aftermath of the sprints at DjangoCon Europe is a new tutorial for Neapolitan, a third-party package from recently retired Django Fellow, Carlton Gibson, that provides quick CRUD views for Django.

noumenal.es

Django shell colors: dev, staging or production?

Tips to color-code dev environments to avoid accidental production data edits.

django.wtf

Some blogging myths

We linked Julia Evans' article this week to help anyone who wants to blog more but talks themselves out of hitting publish.

jvns.ca

Events

DjangoCon Africa CFP is open!

DjangoCon Africa CFP is now open! Submit your talk or tutorial proposal from Wednesday, May 31st to Wednesday, July 12th, anywhere in the world, and encourage your friends and colleagues to do the same.

djangocon.africa

Photos from DjangoCon Europe 2023: Edinburgh

Photos by Rod Penn - www.penn.photography (IG: @rod_penn)

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Tutorials

Django REST Framework Authentication

This tutorial looks at how to add authentication to Django REST Framework with django-allauth and dj-rest-auth.

testdriven.io

Videos

DjangoCon Europe 2023 Edinburgh Videos Are Up!

An amazing turnaround by the team, as the conference was just last week. We will be featuring selected videos in future issues but the entire program is now available.

youtube.com

PyCon US 2023 Videos Are Up!

Recordings from PyCon US 2023 in Salt Lake City, UT.

youtube.com

Podcasts

Django Chat #140: Django Co-Creator - Simon Willison (Ep 21 Replay)

Simon Willison is a co-creator of Django and currently works at Eventbrite. We discuss the early days of Django, the founding of Lanyrd, and his ongoing work with Datasette to make it easier to publish and explore data online.

djangochat.com

Jobs

Community Communications Manager - Python Software Foundation

Apply to Community Communications Manager at Python Software Foundation in Remote.

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Projects

Raekkeri/django-requestlogs

A package providing middleware and other helpers for audit logging.

github.com

fabiocaccamo/django-treenode

Probably the best abstract model/admin for your tree-based stuff.

github.com

typeddjango/django-stubs

PEP-484 stubs for Django featuring a new logo.

github.com

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Django News - djangoproject.com website redesign!

Jeff Triplett (he/him) — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

News

Help us make the djangoproject.com website better

The 20tab agency is currently engaged in a pro-bono redesign of the djangoproject.com website. Please fill out this short survey to help.

google.com

Thinking about running for the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors? Let’s talk!

This year’s Board Election Nomination period is open. Current board members want to share what being on the board is like and are making themselves available to answer all your questions about responsibilities, activities, and time commitments via online chat.

blogspot.com

Enforcement of 2FA for upload.pypi.org began June 1st, 2023

PyPI now requires all uploads from accounts with 2FA enabled to use an API token or Trusted Publisher configuration.

pypi.org

PEP 594 has been implementated: Python 3.13 removes 20 stdlib modules

Python 3.13 removes 20 stdlib modules and Python 3.12 removed 5 stdlib modules. Check out this forum post to see what modules were removed.

python.org

PEP 658 is now live on PyPI - Packaging

Wheels uploaded to PyPI will have their METADATA files served along side them on files.pythonhosted.org , and the appropriate information served in the Simple API to determine if the file as available.

python.org

Updates to Django

Django PRs this week

We're trying out a new category, curated by Sarah Boyce, highlighting contributions to the Django codebase.

On the week starting May 22nd, we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 13 different contributors - including 4 first time contributors! Congratulations to tuxo, Mohit Singh Sinsniwal, Andrii Kohut and gtleee for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome onboard!

Included in this week were improvements to the escape template filter docs and adding a new template filter escapeseq into 5.0.

Want to leave your mark on the framework but struggling to choose a ticket? Here are a couple you might find interesting: - Documentation #29762 - Document how database routers are used for related object access. - New Feature #30200 - Add support for using indexes in update() for ArrayFields.

Please read through the contributing guide and if you need any help, you can reach out on the Django forum or the Django Discord. We'd love to welcome you onboard!

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Articles

PyGrunn 2023: testing files like a pro (“faker-file”)

Maybe you have heard of the faker library, but have you heard of faker-file which helps generate and template text, csv, png, pdf, eml, and other valid file types.

vanrees.org

You Can Ignore This Post

Michael Kennedy, host of the Talk Python podcast, highlighting GitHub's helpful repo of default .gitignore files.

mkennedy.codes

Help test Python 3.12 beta!

The Python 3.12 release manager is encouraging maintainers of third-party Python projects to test with 3.12 during the beta phase and report issues found to the Python bug tracker as soon as possible.

dev.to

Events

DjangoCon US virtual co-writing

Do you want to write more? Do you want an introduction to other Djangonauts? Then perhaps you should attend the virtual co-writing sessions at DjangoCon US this year!

djangocon.us

DjangoCon Europe 2024 announced!

In Vigo, Spain. More information to come soon. If you’d like to help the organizers in any way, please use 2024@djangocon.eu.

djangocon.eu

Tutorials

Django RSS Feed Tutorial

How to add an RSS or Atom syndication feed to a Django project.

learndjango.com

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Jobs

Community Events Coordinator - Python Software Foundation

The Python Software Foundation is looking for a remote, US-based, Community Events Coordinator.

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Projects

file-validator/file-validator

A Python validation library to validate files using type, mime, extension, magic numbers and size.

github.com

pysnippet/django-forbid

Secure your Django app by controlling the access - grant or deny user access based on device and location, including VPN detection.

github.com

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Django News - DjangoCon Europe in Edinburgh starts Monday!

Jeff Triplett (he/him) — Fri, 26 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

News

DjangoBook.com

This classic domain--first used to host a free book on Django written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss--is now a community guide to current books on Django.

djangobook.com

Python 3.12.0 beta 1 released

Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0b1, is the first of four planned beta release previews of 3.12.

blogspot.com

python2.7 will be removed from the python-versions on June 19

GitHub is dropping platform support (actions/setup-python ) for Python 2.7 on June 19th. Python2.7 was officially sunset on January 1, 2020.

github.com

PyPI was subpoenaed

The PSF received three subpoenas from the US Department of Justice for PyPI user data in March and April of 2023. In additional news, PGP signatures will be removed from PyPI going forward.

pypi.org

Django Feeds

A valuable resource on Django tutorials in video, podcast, and book format.

djangofeeds.com

Updates to Django

Django PRs May 14th - 22nd

We're trying out a new category, curated by Sarah Boyce, highlighting contributions to the Django codebase.

On the week starting May 15th, we had 10 pull requests merged into Django by 8 different contributors - including 3 first time contributors! Congratulations to Julie Rymer, Dingning and Rajeesh Punathil for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome onboard!

We saw a number of updates including adding (into Django 5.0) async support to checking user passwords (#16855) and xframe_options_deny, xframe_options_sameorigin, xframe_options_exempt decorators (#16800). It's great to see Django's async story continue to grow!

Want to leave your mark on the framework but struggling to chose a ticket? Here are a couple you might find interesting:

Bug #17235 - Multipartparser shouldn't leave request.POST/request.FILES mutable.
Documentation #33682 - Clarify using distinct() with related fields that have Meta.ordering defined.

Please read through the contributing guide and if you need any help you can reach out on the Django forum or the Django Discord. We'd love to welcome you onboard!

github.com

Wagtail CMS

# Wagtail Bugfix releases: 5.0.1, 4.2.4, and 4.1.6

The Wagtail team announced the bugfix release of Wagtail 5.0.1, 4.2.4, and 4.1.6.

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Articles

Django 4 form rendering using Tailwind without Node or crispy

Since Django 4, form rendering with Tailwind can be used to render beautiful forms without using Node or any other packages like django-crispy-forms.

joseferben.com

Sorting a Django queryset by a custom sequence of an attribute

A guide to sorting a Django queryset based on a custom sequence of an attribute.

rednafi.com

Optimize Django Query Performance by combining Select Related and Prefetch Related

A useful overview of two classic tools for optimizing database query performance in Django: select_related and prefetch_related.

johnnymetz.com

Evolving django-multitenant to build scalable SaaS apps on Postgres & Citus

An overview of the django-multitenant library, actively used since 2017 and now downloaded more than 10K times per month.

citusdata.com

Events

Django Girls Groningen

An upcoming one-day workshop on May 27th in Groningen, The Netherlands.

djangogirls.org

DjangoCon Europe in Edinburgh!

DjangoCon Europe kicks off this Monday, May 29th, for five days of talks, tutorials, and sprints.

djangocon.eu

Tutorials

Django Sitemap Tutorial

Quickly add a sitemap to any Django website. This tutorial builds out a basic recipes app to demonstrate.

learndjango.com

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Podcasts

Episode #156: Virtual Environment Structure & Surveying the Packaging Ecosystem

This week on the show, CPython core developer Brett Cannon returns to discuss his recent articles about virtual environments and the Python packaging landscape.

realpython.com

Projects

citusdata/django-multitenant

Python/Django support for distributed multi-tenant databases like Postgres+Citus.

github.com

jazzband/django-widget-tweaks

Tweak the form field rendering in templates, not in python-level form definitions. CSS classes and HTML attributes can be altered.

github.com

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Django News - Real-time chat application in Django 4.2 with Server-Sent Events

Jeff Triplett (he/him) — Fri, 19 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

News

Django database defaults coming to 5.0

Lily Foote just added support for database defaults on fields. Coming to Django 5.0 in December. This is a massive effort--18 years after the ticket was created.

Thanks also to Simon Charette, Adam Johnson, and Mariusz Felisiak for reviews.

github.com

Django Software Foundation

Django 5.x Steering Council Election Results

The Steering Council for the Django 5.x release cycle with 74 votes received out of 268 eligible voters:

Simon Charette
Andrew Godwin
Adam Johnson
James Bennett

djangoproject.com

Django Software Foundation May 2023 Grants

A list of grants made by the DSF in support of the community for May 2023.

djangoproject.com

Django Software Foundation monthly meeting, May 13, 2023

Meeting minutes for DSF Board monthly meeting, May 13, 2023.

djangoproject.com

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Articles

Writing a chat application in Django 4.2 using async StreamingHttpResponse, Server-Sent Events and PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY

A very, very cool example of using "old" tech to solve new problems, aka using server-sent events, Psycopg3, and Django 4.2 to write a "real-time" chat application without using websockets.

valberg.dk

AstroVenture and University of Mars

More notes on moving from PHP over to Django for an immersive video game that can be used to learn astronomy at the introductory college level.

programmingmylife.com

pytz: The Fastest Footgun in the West

An explanation of the differences between dateutil and pytz's time zone models and why people tend to misuse pytz and introduce bugs into their datetime code.

ganssle.io

Events

Django Day Copenhagen 2023

The fourth edition Django Day Copenhagen is happening October 6th. It will be a full day of talks--either in-person or online.

The Call for Proposals is now open as well.

djangoday.dk

Tutorials

Django Form Validation Guide

An overview of several ways to perform form validation in Django.

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Videos

DjangoX - A Free Django Starter Project with Batteries

Short screencast demoing the features included in the free DjangoX starter project.

youtu.be

Projects

amerkurev/django-docker-template

Dockerized Django with Postgres, Gunicorn, and Traefik (with auto renew Let's Encrypt).

github.com

WeblateOrg/weblate

Web based localization tool with tight version control integration.

github.com

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Django News - DjangoCon Africa 2023 announced!

Jeff Triplett (he/him) — Fri, 12 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

News

Announcing DjangoCon Africa 2023

The African Django community is excited to announce the first DjangoCon Africa event, taking place this year in Zanzibar, Tanzania, from 6th - 11th November 2023.

djangoproject.com

DjangoCon US Call for Proposals - Ends May 15th!

The CFP is open until May 15th. There are several posts listed in this issue with suggested talk topics.

djangocon.us

Python Software Foundation Board Election Dates for 2023

The Python Software Foundation Board election timeline has been posted for the 2023 election. There will be four seats open on the PSF board.

blogspot.com

Wagtail CMS

Going Green with Google Summer of Code

This year, Google Summer of Code has accepted two proposals from the Wagtail community. The team is excited to see what these collaborations will bring, following impressive contributions made in the past year.

wagtail.org

Meet Damilola Oladele, Our First Technical Writer for Google Season of Docs 2023

The Wagtail community welcomes its first technical writer, Damilola Oladele, through the Google Season of Docs (GSoD) program. This initiative aims to enhance and modernize Wagtail's developer documentation, making it easier for new community members to learn about the latest versions and features of Wagtail.

wagtail.org

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Articles

Sorting a Django queryset by a custom sequence of an attribute

This article demonstrates the use of Django's Case and When expressions for custom sorting of querysets, similar to employing IF-THEN-ELSE logic in SQL. The technique is instrumental when arranging model rows, like product IDs, in a predefined sequence.

rednafi.com

DRY: Template Rendering with Context Processors

Mariusz Felisiak explores how to simplify template rendering with context processors in Django.

fly.io

Send your people to DjangoCon US

Attending DjangoCon provides valuable learning experiences, networking opportunities, inspiration for new projects, and helps foster a sense of community among Django developers.

better-simple.com

Django Consulting List

A curated list of Django consulting agencies and individuals who actively contribute to the community.

learndjango.com

Events

DjangoCon Europe is soon!

From May 29th - June 2nd in Edinburgh, Scotland. Tickets are available and the full conference schedule is available.

djangocon.eu

DjangoCon US Talks I’d Like to See: 2023 Edition

More talk ideas from DEFNA (the organization that runs DjangoCon US) cofounder Jeff Triplett.

jefftriplett.com

Topic Ideas - DjangoCon US 2023

Conference talk ideas from DEFNA director Katherine Michel. The CFP closes on May 15th!

github.com

Jobs

Announcing the PyPI Safety & Security Engineer role

PyPI is hiring, thanks to funding from Amazon Web Services!

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Projects

trentm/django-markdown-deux

Updates were just added to fix compatibility issues with recent Django versions.

github.com

HypothesisWorks/hypothesis

Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use library for property-based testing.

github.com

godd0t/django-docker-quickstart

All-in-one Django-Docker starter kit with configurations PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Nginx and Traefik.

github.com

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📰 Django News - Django security releases: 4.2.1, 4.1.9, 3.2.19

Jeff Triplett (he/him) — Fri, 05 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

News

Django security releases issued: 4.2.1, 4.1.9, and 3.2.19

The Django team announces the release of Django 4.2.1, Django 4.1.9, and Django 3.2.19, addressing a security issue and urging users to upgrade promptly.

djangoproject.com

Wagtail 5.0 is now available

Featuring dark mode, more image options with SVG support, enhanced accessibility checker, and more.

wagtail.org

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Django for Beginners/APIs/Professionals

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Articles

3 Tips to Prepare Your Publisher Website for Traffic Spikes

Some tips for how to prepare for your website going viral.

lincolnloop.com

Django for Beginners 4.2 Update

What's new in the 4.2 edition update to the book, Django for Beginners.

wsvincent.com

CSRF and Trusted Origins in Django 4.x+

A quick note and advice on managing CSRF and Trusted Origins.

noumenal.es

How we added SVG support to Wagtail 5.0

Wagtail 5.0 to introduce SVG image support, sponsored by YouGov, with a detailed blog post on enabling the feature, security, and implementation insights.

wagtail.org

Events

PyCon AU Call for Proposals

The CFP is open until May 14th and once again there is a dedicated DjangoCon AU track.

pycon.org.au

Tutorials

Upgrade PostgreSQL from 14 to 15 on Ubuntu 23.04

A guide on upgrading PostgreSQL from version 14 to 15 on Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster).

paulox.net

Videos

Citus Con: Maps with Django (and PostGIS)

View Paolo Melchiorre's Citus Con 2023 presentation on leveraging Django's GeoDjango for web mapping, geospatial data storage, and query execution, with examples from basic Spatialite/SQLite maps to advanced interactive PostGIS and PostgreSQL maps.

youtube.com

Podcasts

Django Chat 139: Test and Code with Brian Okken

Brian is the host of the Test & Code podcast, co-host of the Python Bytes podcast, and author of the book Python Testing with pytest. We discuss testing in general, pytest in particular, and how to test Django projects.

djangochat.com

Projects

saxix/django-admin-extra-buttons

django-admin-extra-buttons is a rewrite of django-admin-extra-url, offering decorators that simplify the process of incorporating custom buttons on Django Admin pages and integrating views with any ModelAdmin.

github.com

django-q2/django-q2

A multiprocessing distributed task queue for Django based on Django-Q.

github.com

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The 4.2 release of Django for Beginners is now available featuring two new chapters focused on deployment.

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Django News #177 - Django 5.x Technical Board Candidate Registration

Jeff Triplett (he/him) — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000

News

Django 5.x Technical Board Candidate Registration - Update

An update on candidates for the Django Technical Board.

djangoproject.com

Introducing Python Package Index Organizations

The Python Package Index (PyPI) adds Organizations.

pypi.org

urllib3 v2.0.0 is now generally available

urllib3 is the most installed Python package of all time and, after 12 years, has finally moved from v1.0 to v2.0.

sethmlarson.dev

Articles

How to have Python show warnings when running Django

Two ways to see deprecation warnings when running your Django project.

untangled.dev

Using Django’s template loaders to configure Tailwind

An elegant way to tell Tailwind where your Django templates are located.

noumenal.es

authentik on Django: 500% slower to run but 200% faster to build

Debating the pros/cons of Django for building a startup.

goauthentik.io

sqlite-history: tracking changes to SQLite tables using triggers (also weeknotes)

On the beginnings of a new project, sqlite-history, from Simon Willison.

simonwillison.net

Forum

How many people actually use Argon2?

The official docs have recommended its usage since Django 1.10, yet it's unclear how widely used it is in the real world.

djangoproject.com

Events

DjangoCon Europe - Things to Do

A helpful list of the many things to do nearby if you have some free time around the conference.

djangocon.eu

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Podcasts

Django Chat #138: 20 Years of Python with Brett Cannon

Brett is a Python Core Contributor and leads the Python/VS Code team at Microsoft. We discuss his twenty years of open-source Python work, how to get involved today, the future of packaging, virtual environments, the standard library, VSCode, and more.

djangochat.com

Jobs

PyPI Safety & Security Engineer, Python Software Foundation

The PSF is hiring for an engineering role that will focus on improving the safety and security of the Python Package index. This role will have shared ownership of key security & safety features with senior maintainers.

python.org

Projects

goauthentik/authentik

The authentication glue you need, built with Django.

github.com

django-crispy-forms/crispy-tailwind

A Tailwind template pack for django-crispy-forms.

github.com

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Django News #176 - Django 5.x Technical Board Election Registration

Jeff Triplett (he/him) — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000

News

Announcement of 5.x Technical Board Election Registration

A new Technical Board election is coming up. All individual DSF members can vote or you can register to vote, too.

djangoproject.com

Google Season of Docs: Creating Wagtail Developer Onboarding Tutorials

After a positive experience with Outreachy, the Wagtail core team participates in Google Season of Docs to enhance onboarding tutorials for developers and improve engagement with technical writers in their community. Google Season of Docs is an annual program that supports open-source documentation and provides technical writers with valuable experience.

wagtail.org

Django Software Foundation

DSF Board monthly meeting, April 13, 2023

djangoproject.com

Articles

Chatting with Django’s documentation using langchain, Chroma & OpenAI APIs

Explore new AI tools for software development by building a Python CLI application that indexes Django's documentation and answers questions within that context using OpenAI's Embeddings & GPT APIs, Chroma, and langchain.

hacksoft.io

Running Tasks Concurrently in Django Asynchronous Views

From Django Fellow Mariusz Felisiak, an overview of async in Python and Django, and how to write async views today.

fly.io

How to add Typescript to the Django Project

An overview of Typescript and examples of how to add to existing Django projects.

accordbox.com

Django REST Framework Basics

An introduction to core DRF concepts: serializers, views and viewsets, routers, authentication and authorization.

testdriven.io

Django Build To Last

Extended thoughts on async code and deployment for Django.

screamingatmyscreen.com

Events

DjangoCon AU Call For Proposals

After a short break, the ninth DjangoCon AU is running in 2023! The CFP is open until end of day May 14th.

pycon.org.au

DjangoCon Europe Schedule is Live

The full schedule is now available for all talks and workshops.

djangocon.eu

Need Suggestions for a DjangoCon US 2023 Topic?

The DjangoCon US team would like to present some suggestions for topics for DCUS 2023.

djangocon.us

Tutorials

Psycopg3 Binary and Django 4.2 Installation Quick Tip

How to avoid an installation mistake when updating to Psycopg 3 Binary, which now has full support in Django 4.2.

learndjango.com

Videos

HTMX 1.9 - hx-on Attribute for Responding to Events

A look at the new HTMX 1.9 hx-on attribute that allows inline handling of events that occur on the page.

youtube.com

Projects

ahmedaljawahiry/django-admin-site-search

A search (cmd+k) modal, for the Django admin UI, that searches your entire site.

github.com

carltongibson/neapolitan

Quick CRUD views for Django. Still in the alpha stage of development but very cool and worth a look.

github.com

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Django News #175- htmx 1.9.0 released

Jeff Triplett (he/him) — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000

News

htmx 1.9.0 has been released!

htmx 1.9.0 has been released, which includes new features such as support for view transitions and generalized inline event handling via the new hx-on attribute, as well as improvements and bug fixes.

htmx.org

PSF News: The EU's Proposed CRA Law May Have Unintended Consequences for the Python Ecosystem

The PSF has expressed concerns about the proposed Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Act, stating that the policies could unintentionally harm users and put the health of the open-source software community at risk.

blogspot.com

GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what's next

GitHub Accelerator, a program that fosters sustainable open-source projects, has announced its first cohort of 20 projects and 32 participants worldwide. Among the diverse projects selected are htmx, Strawberry, and Datasette, all of which have ties to the Django community.

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Articles

Building an Intelligent Education Platform with OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Django

An article describes leveraging artificial intelligence technology such as GPT-3 and ChatGPT to build an intelligent education platform using Django. The tutorial covers the fundamentals of Large Language Models, indexing, training a model on a blog post, developing an API capable of answering questions about the blog post and creating a user interface for interacting with the API.

testdriven.io

Filtering rows every 5 days with the Django ORM

Good explanation with code of how to fetch records that occur every X days when you're working with timestamped data.

better-simple.com

Making Python 100x faster with less than 100 lines of Rust

This article describes how a Python library used for mathematical and geometrical operations in a 3D processing pipeline was made 100x faster with less than 100 lines of Rust, using NumPy and other scientific Python packages to address a performance issue.

github.io

Using Unpoly with Django

An article advocates for the use of Unpoly as an alternative to frontend frameworks like React and Vue, which can add unnecessary complexity to projects, and describes how to integrate Unpoly with Django for UX enhancements, such as modals, navigation, and form submissions without full page reloads.

github.io

Improve your Django Code with pre-commit

An article introduces pre-commit, a developer tool that automates the process of checking code for errors and issues before committing it to a repository, and explains how to set it up and use it to catch bugs, sort imports based on PEP recommendations, and lint code for better readability in Django projects.

builtwithdjango.com

Events

PyGotham TV 2023 Tickets

PyGotham is a New York City/virtual-based, eclectic, Py-centric conference covering many topics. Tickets are free.

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Videos

PyCascades 2023

PyCascades 2023 videos are up!

youtube.com

Podcasts

Django Chat #137: Being a Productive Developer with Nick Janetakis

We welcome back Nick and discuss upgrading to Django 4.2, developer tooling, balancing multiple projects, and how to be productive as a modern web developer.

djangochat.com

Projects

sj26/mailcatcher

Catches mail and serves it through a dream.

github.com

django/djangosnippets.org

The code that powers djangosnippets.org, it allows users to post and share useful "snippets" of code.

github.com

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