News

Wagtail 2.13.2, 2.12.5, and 2.11.8 releases!

New Wagtail CVE-2021-32681: Improper escaping of HTML (‘Cross-site Scripting’) in Wagtail StreamField blocks for 2.13.2, 2.12.5, and 2.11.8.

PSF News: Update on the Python Software Foundation Executive Director

Python Software Foundation Executive Director Ewa Jodlowska is stepping down at the end of the year. The Python and Django community would not be where we are today without her ten+ years of service.

Psycopg 2.9 released

If you are like us and have used Psycopg for years and never paid much attention to the release notes, 2.9 is a good opportunity to get caught up.

Python 3.10.0b3 is available

Python 3.10.0b3 is the third of four planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to support the new feature release.

Tailwind CSS v2.2

An all-new high-performance CLI tool, ::before and ::after support, sibling selectors, selected text variants, and tons more.

Articles

Django Chat is Where it’s At

An article from Caktus Group on the Django Chat podcast.

Python Type Hints - How to Manage "type: ignore" Comments with Mypy

Adam Johnson shows us how to ignore # type: ignore comments.

Bytecode Alliance

JavaScript in the browser runs many times faster than it did two decades ago. And that happened because the browser vendors spent that time working on intensive performance optimizations.

Plotting the source code "TODO" history of the most popular open source projects

Don't miss the Django chart.

Events

DjangoCon US 2021 CFP is open!

The DjangoCon US 2021 CFP is open and closes on July 18, 2021.

PyGotham TV Call for Proposals

The PyGotham TV CFP is open now through June 30, Anywhere on Earth.

What's New in Wagtail webinar is back on July 21

Join us for the next What's New in Wagtail to see demos of exciting new features and functionality

Design Articles

Toggle 🌒 dark and 🔆 sunny mode using AlpineJS, and TailwindCSS

If you have ever wanted to build a dark and sunny mode for a website then here is a nice walkthrough.

Podcasts

Real Python #64: Detecting Deforestation With Python & Using GraphQL With Django and Vue

A discussion on building a blog using Django, Vue.js, and GraphQL.

Projects

adamchainz/owela

Example Owela game built using Django and htmx.

posthog/posthog

🦔 PostHog is developer-friendly, open-source product analytics. Built with Django, it has free and paid tiers.

django-salesforce/django-salesforce

Salesforce integration for Django's ORM using the SF REST API.

jamesturk/spatula

A modern Python library for writing maintainable web scrapers.

Jeff has been playing with this library all week and likes how testable and cacheable the results are.

Sprites-and-Dice/sprites-and-dice

The CMS for Sprites and Dice. Built with Wagtail.

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