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Wagtail 2.16

Wagtail 2.16 adds support for Django 4.0 and dozens of features and improvements.

DEFNA Board Member Recruitment

Django Events Foundation North America (DEFNA) is looking for another board member who is interested in growing the DjangoCon US community.

Wagtail’s domain migration

The Wagtail team decided to migrate their wagtail.io domain to a wagtail.org domain.

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Articles

How I Write Conference Talk Proposals

A very detailed look at planning and writing conference talk proposals from a Developer Advocate at Digital Ocean.

Save a Django Query to the Database

A financial transactions example of saving a query to the database and integrating it with htmx live search.

Django, HTMX and Alpine

An overview with code examples of the benefits of both HTMX and Alpine in Django applications.

Automating package releases with GitHub

From Tom Christie a guide to automating package releases with GitHub. Very cool stuff.

Django-plpy toolkit for Python stored procedures in PostgreSQL

Django-plpy attempts to close the gap between Django PostgreSQL integration and PL/Python.

Announcing WhiteNoise 6 by Adam Johnson

WhiteNoise 6 adds support for modern Django, Python, and new Nginx mime-types and drops support for outdated Django and Python versions.

Trends and Insights

🍏 Jen Simmons, from Apple, asked the web community for meaningful feedback to help address issues with their Safari browser.

🖤 The Django codebase is now formatted with Black.

⚡ Django Snippets is now using htmx on their front page and they are looking for new contributors. This continues the trend of more and more projects starting to adopt htmx.

🌍 Do you remember your first DjangoCon Europe? The team wants to know.

✏️ Writing a "Hello Wordle" app might be the new writing "Hello world" in your favorite framework.

🐍 Python Core Devs are discussing "Removing dead batteries" from Python 3.13.

🐘 After you upgrade to Postgres 14, you need to reindex all of your indexes because glibc changed how data is internally sorted.

📘 Kalob Taulien announced that he is writing a Wagtail CMS book this year due November 2022.

Videos

PyCascades 2022 Video Playlist

PyCascades 2022 videos are up.

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Projects

ubernostrum/django-flashpolicies

Flash cross-domain policies for Django.

thorin-schiffer/django-plpy

Django utilities for Postgres PL/Python

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