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Customizing Django admin fieldsets without fearing forgotten fields

April 14, 2025 » Matthias Kestenholz » [Archived Version]

Customizing Django admin fieldsets without fearing forgotten fields When defining fieldsets on Django modeladmin classes I always worry that I forget updating the fieldsets later when adding or removing new model fields, and not without reason: It has already happened to me several times. Forgetting to remove fields is mostly fine because system checks will complain about it, forgetting to add fields may be real bad. A recent example was a crashing website because a required field was missing f…

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Weeknotes (2025 week 15)

April 9, 2025 » Matthias Kestenholz » [Archived Version]

Weeknotes (2025 week 15) Djangonaut Space We have already reached the final week of the Djangonaut Space session 4. I had a great time as a navigator and am looking forward to participate more, but for now I’m also glad that I do not have the additional responsibility at least for the close future. We have done great work on the django-debug-toolbar in our group, more is to come. Progress on the prose editor I have done much work on django-prose-editor in the last few weeks and after a la…

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Ungoogling my life

March 12, 2025 » Matthias Kestenholz » [Archived Version]

Ungoogling my life I was dismayed (but unfortunately not really surprised) to see all the big tech CEOs kiss the ring during the inauguration a few weeks back. I decided then that I didn’t want to subscribe to any products of these companies with my personal money anymore. In my case, this meant only Google. I do have an iPhone (the first iPhone since the 3GS or something) but I’m not paying any subscriptions there either. I have been a paying Google subscriber for years and years, …

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