April 14, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
For April 2025, we welcome Öykü Gümüş as our DSF member of the month! ⭐ Öykü Gümüş has been Django developer for many years. She has been DjangoCon Europe organizer in 2018 and Django Girls mentor in Istanbul for multiple years. She has been a DSF member since November 2019. You can learn more about Öykü by visiting Öykü's GitHub Profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know Öykü better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc) Hi, I am Öykü, software engineer current…
Read MoreApril 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…
Read MoreApril 13, 2025 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
Not alone, and for a long time now, I’ve been battling with making my open source contributions sustainable. The open contribution model engendered by GitHub — where anonymous (to the project) users can create issues, and comments, which are almost always extractive support requests — results in an effective denial-of-service attack against maintainers. There have been various responses to this problem along some variation of Open source, not open contribution. The SQLite and Litestream proje…
Read MoreApril 11, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Six Python releases (3.9 to 3.13) and a new 3.14.0a7 are now available Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six releases! Is this the most in a single day? blogspot.com Annual meeting of DSF Members at DjangoCon Europe DSF annual meeting at DjangoCon Europe enables community discussions on current and future projects, engaging both in-person and remote DSF members. djangoproject.com PEP 75…
Read MoreApril 11, 2025 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I declared to the stream that I’m done working on JourneyInbox as a SaaS product. I didn’t see any meaningful market adoption, so I’ve decided to pivot the project to serve only my personal needs. I used the stream to do a retrospective on the project and then convert the core logic to use Go to simplify when I need to run on my server.
Read MoreApril 10, 2025 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
A quick-start guide to create a web map with images, using the Python-based Django web framework, leveraging its GeoDjango module, and Pillow, the Python imaging library, to extract GPS information from images.
Read MoreApril 9, 2025 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]
This tutorial looks at how to run background tasks directly from Django admin using Celery.
Read MoreApril 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…
Read MoreApril 9, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
We’re organizing an annual meeting for members of the Django Software Foundation! It will be held at DjangoCon Europe 2025 in two weeks in Dublin, bright and early on the second day of the conference. The meeting will be held in person at the venue, and participants can also join remotely. Register to join the annual meeting What to expect This is an opportunity for current and aspiring members of the Foundation to directly contribute to discussions about our direction. We will cover our curren…
Read MoreApril 7, 2025 » Josh Karamuth » [Archived Version]
Learn how programmers are evolving from coders to AI guides—see a Python example proving why human expertise still matters.
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