March 27, 2024 » Matthias Kestenholz: Posts about Django » [Archived Version]
The Django admin is a CMSThe post Why is the Django Admin “Ugly”? and the discussion on Mastodon around it finally motivated me to write down my thoughts regarding the recurring theme in Django land that the Django administration interface isn’t a CMS (Content Management System). I think that this is misguided and needlessly limits the discourse around what the admin’s current functionality is and the ideas what it could be and already is. A web content management system is about we…
Read MoreMarch 27, 2024 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
A brief breakdown of what a typical workday is for me.
Read MoreMarch 27, 2024 » Django Beats » [Archived Version]
Mariusz Felisiak, a Django and Python contributor and a Django Fellow, explores the world of ASGI servers. Django on Fly.io is pretty sweet! Check it out: you can be up and running on Fly.io in just minutes. Asynchronous support in Django is constantly improving and each version introduces new features. With already implemented: asynchronous views and middlewares, asynchronous ORM interface, asynchronous support for decorators and signal dispatchers, and growing support in contrib packages…
Read MoreMarch 23, 2024 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]
Django’s system check framework provides fantastic protection for configuration mishaps. It’s like a targeted linter that runs when you start Django commands. It takes advantage of runtime setup to inspect the true state rather than infer it from the source. I love the system check framework: I have …
Read MoreMarch 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…
Read MoreMarch 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…
Read MoreMarch 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.
Read MoreMarch 21, 2024 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]
How and when to use Streaming HTTP responses and when not to.
Read MoreMarch 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…
Read MoreMarch 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 …
Read More