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My 2024 in review

Dec. 30, 2024 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

A quick review of my 2024 done in a hurry, trying to remember the many experiences I had, the people I met, the places I visited and the changes I went through.

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Django in 2024

Dec. 30, 2024 » Screaming At My Screen » [Archived Version]

2024 was a busy year for me. My clients really kept me on my toes with lots of fun and exciting R&D projects. Nearly all of them were built on the same stack. Some are internally facing, processing about 1.5 million messages asynchronously per day, some are customer facing, with a few hundred requests per second peak, but overall still nothing too crazy. I am sure they will get a bit more traction in 2025. Additional to that we worked on a non profit side project that will likely go online …

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2024 - My year in review

Dec. 30, 2024 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

A look back at my efforts in 2024.

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Deploying a Django App to AWS ECS with AWS Copilot

Dec. 28, 2024 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]

This tutorial looks at how to deploy a Django app to AWS ECS with AWS Copilot.

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Django News - New Django Accessibility Team Members, Performance Pitfalls, and PyCon US 2025! - Dec 27th 2024

Dec. 27, 2024 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Welcome to our new Django accessibility team members The Django Accessibility Team welcomes new members Eli, Marijke, Tushar, and Saptak, who bring valuable expertise to the project. djangoproject.com Articles Django: avoid using .first() when retrieving a unique object Avoid using .first() to retrieve unique objects in Django to avoid unnecessary performance costs from added ordering; instead, use .get() with proper exception h…

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Django: Fail in templates with {% url '' %}

Dec. 27, 2024 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

Previously, I covered using 1/0 to crash Python within minimal typing, useful to quickly answer questions like “does the code even get here?”. Recently, I wanted to do the same in Django templates, to trace if a given template was even being rendered, and under which code paths. It …

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Optimizing SQLite - Building SaaS #210

Dec. 27, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, when worked on the newly migrated JourneyInbox site and focused on the database. Since me moved from Postgres to SQLite, I needed to make sure that SQLite was ready for users. We examined common configuration to optimize the database and applied that config to JourneyInbox.

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Getting Started Contributing to Django

Dec. 25, 2024 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

A collection of resources to help you get started contributing to Django.

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Show Django forms inside a modal using HTMX

Dec. 25, 2024 » Josh Karamuth » [Archived Version]

Learn how to create and edit models using Django forms inside a modal using HTMX

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Welcome to our new Django accessibility team members - Eli, Marijke, Saptak, Tushar

Dec. 24, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Sarah Abderemane, Thibaud Colas and Tom Carrick are pleased to introduce four new members in the Django Accessibility team ❤️. Marijke Luttekes Eliana Rosselli Tushar Gupta Saptak Sengupta Marijke (pronounced Mah-Rye-Kuh) is a freelance web developer who creates human-friendly applications. She is based in Groningen, The Netherlands, specializing in Django, Python, HTML, SCSS, and vanilla JavaScript. She helps companies expand their existing projects, think about new features…

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