News
Django 4.0 beta 1 released
Django 4.0 beta 1 is now available. It represents the second stage in the 4.0 release cycle and is an opportunity for you to try out the changes coming in Django 4.0.
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Articles
Profiling a Django App
An overview of three tools--Pyinstrument, QueryCount, and Django Silk--for profiling your Django App.
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Django HTMX Modal Popup Loveliness
A pattern explained with code for providing Django modal popups via HTMX.
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Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3
Since Python 3.5 was released in 2015 including PEP 484 and the typing module type hints have grown from a nice-to-have to an expectation for popular packages. To fulfill this expectation our team...
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Notes From the Meeting On Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross
What would Python without the GIL look like? Turns out, this was a topic that Python Core asked during the annual Python core development sprint with Sam Gross, who recently authored a "nogil" fork of Python 3.9.
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Events
What’s New in Wagtail CMS: episode 5
A webinar all about what's new in Wagtail occurring on November 10th and November 11th.
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Videos
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Building Intelligent Space Infrastructure
Cognitive Space is building intelligent infrastructure for the new space domain with Python at the core. We are looking for passionate Python developers in backend, dev ops, and machine learning. 🖖
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Podcasts
Django Chat #100: Mastering Django with Nigel George
Nigel is the author of the books Mastering Django and Build a Website with Django 3. He also maintains the website djangobook.com. We discuss teaching Django to newcomers, print vs video, testing, and more.
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Projects
ehmatthes/django-simple-deploy
A reusable Django app that configures your project for deployment. Focused on Heroku currently but extendable to other platforms as well.
github.com
coderedcorp/coderedcms
A content management system for marketing websites based on Django and Wagtail.
github.com
adamchainz/django-coverage-example
Example project demonstrating using Django’s test runner with Coverage.py
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