News

Django bugfix release: 3.1.5

A new bugfix release is out. As ever, staying on the latest version of Django is the #1 security step you can take on your projects. Here are the revelant docs for doing so.

htmx 1.1.0 Release

htmx is a promising new library that adds support for AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets, and Server Sent Events directly in HTML.

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Articles

My Python linting setup in 2020 :: sleepy yaks industries — Help teams delivering better products and applications

Linting is an automated style guide for personal or team use. Here's one approach for 2020 and beyond.

Better Exception Output in Django’s Test Runner With better-exceptions

Adding the better-exception package to Django's test runner which makes the standard assert statement much more usable.

Designing Engineering Organizations

From Jacob Kaplan-Moss, a look at how to structure a larger engineering organizations.

Using Django & AssemblyAI for More Accurate Twilio Call Transcriptions

In this tutorial, we'll record an outbound Twilio call recording to AssemblyAI's API to get significantly more accurate speech-to-text output.

Understand Django: Serving Static Files

The 11th in a series from Matt Layman, this newest article focuses on serving static files within Django which is a non-trivial task. Matt is also featured on the Django Chat podcast this week!

Events

Python Web Conf 2021 CFP

The CFP closes on January 29, 2021.

Tutorials

Deploying Django to AWS ECS with Terraform

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. This tutorial shows how to develop the high-level configuration files required to deploy a Django application to Amazon ECS.

Podcasts

Django Chat: Telemedicine with Matt Layman

Matt is a Software Architect at Doctor on Demand and a prolific Django educator. We talk about Django at scale, leading a large engineering team, and teaching Django to newcomers.

Projects

vinta/awesome-python

A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

benwilber/boltstream

Boltstream is a Live Video Streaming Website + Backend written in Django.

openwisp/django-loci

Reusable Django app for storing geographic and indoor coordinates. Maintained by the OpenWISP Project.

Qix-/better-exceptions

Pretty and useful exceptions in Python, automatically.

Django Blogs

A new website that is a directory of Django bloggers.

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