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Pipenv new release

A major new release for Pipenv, the first since 2018!

PSF on Twitter: "The deadline to sign up to vote in @ThePSF upcoming election is May 31 AOE. To vote you need to be a PSF fellow, contributing, supporting and/or managing member. Membership info can be found here: https://t.co/W2H2ShVTDr"

The PSF's annual elections are this June. If you are not a member and want to be one, sign up before May 31 AOE to vote this year.

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Two Scoops of Django 3.x: Best Practices for the Django Web Framework

The long-awaited update covers various tips, tricks, patterns, code snippets, and techniques of Django best practices.

Articles

A tour of Django server setups

See what Django in production visually looks like with diagrams.

Abusing the Django Admin app

Ken Whitesell walks us through automatically registering all of the models in our app while providing a custom ModelAdmin class to make their display useful. This technique is useful when dealing with a large number of models or a legacy database when you don't want to create 200 ModelAdmins.

Handling SEO with Wagtail CMS

Adonis Simo walks us through how to make Wagtail more SEO friendly.

How to Get Hired as a Django Developer

Practical advice on finding work as a professional Python/Django programmer.

Waiting in asyncio

While not directly written for Django, this cheat sheet explains the various options available in asyncio for waiting for results.

Debugging a Containerized Django App in VS Code

How to debug a containerized Django App in Visual Studio Code (VS Code).

Tutorials

Django Celery Tutorial Series

An approachable two-part tutorial series about setting up Django and Celery.

Podcasts

Django Chat - JWTs and AI - David Sanders

David is the author of the popular django-rest-framework-simplejwt package. They discuss authentication, JWTs, and his current role at an AI startup.

Projects

phuoc-ng/csslayout

A very useful collection of popular layouts and patterns made with CSS. While not specifically Django related, HTML is unavoidable as a Django developer.

jonathan-s/django-sockpuppet

Build reactive applications with the django tooling you already know and love

Flimm/django-fullurl

Adds three template tags: fullurl, fullstatic, and buildfullurl.

django-fast-pagination

Faster Queries For Large Databases

django-grpc-framework

Django gRPC framework is a toolkit for building gRPC services, inspired by djangorestframework.

jrief/django-entangled

If you use Django's JSONField, django-entangled is the missing tool you need to build custom forms for these fields.

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Work From Home Setups

Jeff created this moment featuring photos of our community's work-from-home desk setups in March as many of us were starting to transition to working from our homes. Take a photo and tag @webology if you want your setup added.