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Citus Con 2023

April 17, 2023 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

An Event for Postgres is a free and virtual developer event organized by the Postgres team at Microsoft Azure.

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PyCon DE 2023

April 17, 2023 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

PyConDE & PyData Berlin 2023, Berlin Germany. Where Pythonistas in Germany can meet to learn about new and upcoming Python libraries, tools, software and data science.

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Announcement of 5.x Technical Board Election Registration

April 16, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

The release of Django 4.2 represents the final feature release of a major release series of Django. Per DEP-0010 this release triggers the election for the Technical board for the Django 5.x release cycle. All individual DSF members are automatically registered electors. If you are not a DSF member and would like to apply to vote you need to register here. The process of electing a new Technical Board will be: Registration of Electors is now open, and will close Friday April 21, 2023 AoE. Regi…

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Django REST Framework Basics

April 14, 2023 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]

This article serves as an introduction to Django REST Framework, focusing on serializers, views, and routers.

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Django News - htmx 1.9.0 released - Apr 14th 2023

April 14, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]

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, statin…

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Running tasks concurrently in Django asynchronous views

April 13, 2023 » Django Beats » [Archived Version]

Mariusz Felisiak, a Django and Python contributor and a Django Fellow, explores how to use recent async improvements in Django to run multiple async tasks in an asynchronous view! Django on Fly.io is pretty sweet. Check out how you can be up and running on Fly.io in just minutes. Async support has really been improving and expanding in Django! Since Django 3.0 with the addition of ASGI support (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) there has been a steady march of improvements that bring Djan…

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Multiple storages for the same FileField in Django

April 11, 2023 » /var/ - django » [Archived Version]

Using multiple file storages from the same FileField in Django

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Insecurely Copying Text in Javascript

April 11, 2023 » james.walters.click » [Archived Version]

I've been working on an internal web app at my job for our call and chat agents. There's some text provided there that agents commonly need to copy and paste. I thought it might be nice to write a bit of scripting to automatically copy these bits of text to …

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LLMs and the business of “Truth”

April 9, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]

Theodorus claims that we are alike. But if we each had a lyre, and he said that they were similarly tuned, would we just take his word for it, or would we first see whether his statement was backed by musical knowledge? - Socrates in The Theaetetus (144d-e, Waterfield translation) There’s much recently about the new LLM-based GPT and the like. In particular, the fact that they create plausible looking output, which on inspection is utterly baseless. Simon Willison has a good post (as so oft…

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Django Build To Last

April 8, 2023 » Screaming At My Screen » [Archived Version]

Tim does an amazing job applying "Build to Last" principles to Django. Community and reliability are two of the three most important reasons making me enjoy Django for a very long time (documentation being the third). I think it is healthy for any project to know what its distinguishing attributes are, as well as having a plan for where the project will go the next few years. And while I agree with Tim, I want to add a bit more to the big hairy audacious list of goals to take into consideration…

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