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Welcome our new Fellow - Sarah Boyce

March 22, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

The DSF Board and Fellows Committee are pleased to introduce Sarah Boyce as our new Django Fellow. Sarah will be joining Natalia Bidart who is continuing her excellent tenure as a Fellow. Sarah is a senior developer and developer advocate with 5 years of experience developing with Django under her belt. She graduated with a first class honours degree in Mathematics from the University of Bath, and transitioned in software development in her first job out of school. Sarah first worked as a cl…

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Django News - Django REST Framework 3.15 - Mar 22nd 2024

March 22, 2024 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Django REST framework 3.15 Release Notes The first major release since September 2022 is here! Now with Django 5.0 and Python 3.12 support as well as a long list of new features. django-rest-framework.org 🐍 Python Insider: Python 3.10.14, 3.9.19, and 3.8.19 is now available Python 3.10.14, 3.9.19, and 3.8.19 security releases are now available. blogspot.com Updates to Django Today 'Updates to Dj…

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Post-launch Punchlist - Building SaaS with Python and Django #186

March 21, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we had a bunch of issues to resolve post-launch. I set the code that causes trials to expire, made updates to who receives prompt emails, and added some polish to the sign up process and interface to make it clear what will happen in the flow. After those modifications, we worked through a set of smaller changes like setting up Dependabot and adding a missing database index.

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Django Streaming HTTP Responses

March 21, 2024 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

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

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Post-launch Punchlist - Building SaaS #186

March 21, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we had a bunch of issues to resolve post-launch. I set the code that causes trials to expire, made updates to who receives prompt emails, and added some polish to the sign up process and interface to make it clear what will happen in the flow. After those modifications, we worked through a set of smaller changes like setting up Dependabot and adding a missing database index.

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blacknoise – ASGI app for static file serving

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

blacknoise – ASGI app for static file serving Note This blog post consists of the blacknoise README at the time of publishing. blacknoise is an ASGI app for static file serving inspired by whitenoise and following the principles of low maintenance software. This is pre-alpha software and everything is subject to change. I’m not even sure if blacknoise should exist at all or if the energy wouldn’t be better spent improving whitenoise or other tools. Feedback and contributions are ve…

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Django: Fuss-free use of Homebrew GDAL/GEOS libraries on macOS

March 20, 2024 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

GeoDjango requires the GDAL and GEOS spatial libraries. On macOS, you can use Homebrew to install these, but they won’t be picked up by default since they live in a non-default library directory, /opt/homebrew/lib. Django will fail to start with an exception: Traceback (most recent call last …

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Talking about Django's history and future on Django Chat

March 20, 2024 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]

I was on the Django Chat podcast to about Django’s history, the creation of the DSF, my recent return to the DSF board and my goals there, and the things I’m excited about for Django going forward. Here are some highlights from the interview.

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Podcasts I like listening to

March 18, 2024 » Matthias Kestenholz: Posts about Django » [Archived Version]

Podcasts I like listening toI discovered listening to podcasts about one year ago. Previously, I never knew why anyone would want to listen to people talk when they could listen to music or nothing, but that has changed a bit. So, here’s a list of podcasts I’m currently listening to on a regular basis. Tech Won’t Save Us I have recently stumbled over Tech Won’t Save Us, a Podcast which is critical of the technological “progress” offered by Silicon Valley elit…

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I made a YouTube video!

March 18, 2024 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

I made a video of me deploying a new Django project to my Raspberry Pi.

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