News

Django 4.0 beta 1 released

Django 4.0 beta 1 is now available. It represents the second stage in the 4.0 release cycle and is an opportunity for you to try out the changes coming in Django 4.0.

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Space Exploration. Forest fire management. Lightning strike predictions. These are three IMPACTFUL Projects (defined as projects that are impressive, purposeful, transformative and unquestionably benefit humankind) Six Feet Up has had the privilege to work on. Six Feet Up is committed to completing 10 IMPACTFUL Projects by 2025, and the company is well on its way to achieving this goal. Want to work with us? Let’s talk!

Articles

Profiling a Django App

An overview of three tools--Pyinstrument, QueryCount, and Django Silk--for profiling your Django App.

Django HTMX Modal Popup Loveliness

A pattern explained with code for providing Django modal popups via HTMX.

Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3

Since Python 3.5 was released in 2015 including PEP 484 and the typing module type hints have grown from a nice-to-have to an expectation for popular packages. To fulfill this expectation our team...

Notes From the Meeting On Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross

What would Python without the GIL look like? Turns out, this was a topic that Python Core asked during the annual Python core development sprint with Sam Gross, who recently authored a "nogil" fork of Python 3.9.

Events

What’s New in Wagtail CMS: episode 5

A webinar all about what's new in Wagtail occurring on November 10th and November 11th.

Python Web Conf 2022

Call for Proposals ends November 1st.

Videos

DjangoCon US 2021 Videos are up

DjangoCon US 2021 was last week and the videos are up.

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Building Intelligent Space Infrastructure

Cognitive Space is building intelligent infrastructure for the new space domain with Python at the core. We are looking for passionate Python developers in backend, dev ops, and machine learning. 🖖

Podcasts

Django Chat #100: Mastering Django with Nigel George

Nigel is the author of the books Mastering Django and Build a Website with Django 3. He also maintains the website djangobook.com. We discuss teaching Django to newcomers, print vs video, testing, and more.

Projects

ehmatthes/django-simple-deploy

A reusable Django app that configures your project for deployment. Focused on Heroku currently but extendable to other platforms as well.

sebst/pythonic-news

A Hacker News lookalike that is written with Python and Django.

coderedcorp/coderedcms

A content management system for marketing websites based on Django and Wagtail.

adamchainz/django-coverage-example

Example project demonstrating using Django’s test runner with Coverage.py