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PyPI: Prohibiting Outlook email domains

In response to ongoing mass bot account registrations, Outlook domains outlook.com and hotmail.com have been prohibited from new associations with PyPI accounts.

DjangoCon US: Call for Venue Proposal 2025

DEFNA is seeking proposals for a venue for DjangoCon US 2025 and ideally 2026.

Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Vaarun Sinha from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 8 pull requests merged into Django by 6 different contributors - including 2 first-time contributors! Congratulations to George Kussumoto and Madalin Popa for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Some interesting Django forum discussions to check out:

DEP009: Is Async-Capable Django Still Relevant? : A discussion on the future direction of async support in Django, addressing current achievements, challenges, and potential next steps.
Idea: makemigrations and squashmigrations with --no-deps flag : Proposing a solution for handling circular dependencies in large projects by creating models without relationships initially, and then adding them in subsequent migrations.

Wagtail CMS

How to Remove the “Add” Button from Wagtail Admin SnippetViewSet

How to Remove the “Add” Button from Wagtail Admin SnippetViewSet.

Articles

Python: Import by string with pkgutil.resolve_name()

Learn how to use classes, functions, or modules by importing them as strings.

Django SQLite Production Config

Optimize your Django SQLite configuration for production.

Running Prettier against Django or Jinja templates

Learn how to use Prettier to lint Django and Jinja templates.

Events

Django London Meetup June

The next Django London Meetup is Thursday, June 20, 2024, 6:15 PM to 8:15 PM BST at the Kraken offices.

Pycon Ireland 2024: Call for Speakers

PyCon Ireland 2024 takes place in Dublin on November 16th and 17th. Their Call for Speakers closes on August 5th.

Tutorials

Storing Django Static and Media Files on DigitalOcean Spaces

This tutorial shows how to configure Django to load and serve up static, and user-uploaded media files, public and private, via DigitalOcean Spaces, an S3-compatible object storage service with a built-in Content Delivery Network (CDN).