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January 3, 2025

🎊 DjangoCon US 2025, Wagtail Updates, and Tips for Django Developers

🎊 DjangoCon US 2025 Announced, Wagtail 6.3.2, articles, projects, and much more!

News

DjangoCon US 2025 has been announced!

DjangoCon US 2025 is heading to Chicago this September 8 - 12th—mark your calendar, prepare your talk submissions, and join the excitement!

Wagtail CMS News

Wagtail 6.3.2

Wagtail 6.3.2 includes three bug fixes and a docs update.

Articles

Database optimization isn't always obvious

Database query optimization often defies intuition—Ken Whitesell unpacks why benchmarks, query plans, and context matter more than surface assumptions.

Python: create temporary files and directories in unittest

Create and manage temporary files and directories in Python tests, with practical tips for unittest and more.

Django in 2024

Django proved its versatility in 2024, powering everything from high-traffic APIs to async workflows, while keeping complexity low and teams productive—reminding us why it's still a top choice for modern web development.

Show Django flash messages as toasts with Htmx

Learn how to display Django messages as user friendly toasts with Htmx

Getting Started Contributing to Django

A collection of resources to help you get started contributing to Django.

Introducing Django Template LSP: Smarter Completions for Django Templates - Four Digits

Django Template LSP revolutionizes template editing with intelligent autocompletion, navigation, and hover docs, making Django development faster and smoother than ever.

Cowboy Debugging Python Memory Leaks

Debugging Python memory leaks gets a creative twist with objgraph and signal handlers, letting you analyze live systems without constant restarts—perfect for the brave and curious.

Project Quarantine - The Python Package Index Blog

How the Python Package Index (PyPI) handles project quarantine lifecycle status for suspected malware.

Tutorials

Deploying a Django App to AWS ECS with AWS Copilot

This tutorial looks at how to deploy a Django app to AWS ECS with AWS Copilot.

Podcasts

Career Transitions and Tech Triumphs: Natalia Bidart's story

In this episode of the Django Girls Podcast, hosts Leona and Aisha sit down with Django Fellow Natalia Bidart.

Django Job Board

Front-end developer at cassandra.app 🆕

Full-stack Django Developer at cassandra.app 🆕

Développeur(se) back-end en CDI at Brief Media 🆕

Full-stack Python Developer at Scalable Path

Projects

mkniewallner/migrate-to-uv

Migrate a project from Poetry/Pipenv to uv package manager.

abondar/django-copyist: Tool for precise and efficient django model copying

Tool for precise and efficient django model copying - abondar/django-copyist

GitHub - fourdigits/django-template-lsp

Contribute to fourdigits/django-template-lsp development by creating an account on GitHub.


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