I’ve cast my vote for the Django 6.x Steering Council! It’s incredible to read promising candidate statements for the elections. 🗳️💚
Thanks to the departing members for their contributions! ✨
If you’re eligible, vote before 17 Dec '24, AoE: https://buff.ly/3OWG28h 🔗
Great people[1] are coming to Django Day Copenhagen 2024[2], and you can also be one of them!
🎤 Give a talk! First time doing a talk? We want to hear your idea!
🎟️ Get a ticket - early bird discounts are available until September 1st.
[1] https://fosstodon.org/@mahryekuh/112792470974920135
[2] https://2024.djangoday.dk/
The countdown is on—less than 2 days left to apply for #DjangonautSpace 💜
This is your chance to join a stellar mentorship program, boost your #Django contributions, and be a part of a supporting community. 🫶🏻
⏳ Deadline: Jan 29, 2025
👉 Link: https://djangonaut.space/sessions/2025-session-4/
If you need to convince someone about the importance of "Locality of Behavior" (LoB) in #Django, show them a large project that attempted to do "don't repeat yourself" (DRY) on a bunch of Django Rest Framework serializers 🍝
It's a pattern I've seen repeated with both models, forms and class-based views. Class-inheritance invites DRY'ing of loosely related objects that often turn out to diverge once the project has evolved.
Anyways good luck out there with the DRY'ing, LoB'ing and YAGNI'ing 🤹♂️
Been working on a new feature for @reviewboard extension developers. TemplateHooks today let extensions inject arbitrary HTML into parts of the page, but now we're making this more flexible via a new Page State Injectors feature, as part of our Djblets for #Django project.
Djblets (https://github.com/djblets/djblets/) is a series of reusable apps for Django that help make more involved web applications.
Exciting news for the Django community! Django has earned the CHAOSS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bronze Badge 🫶
This milestone reflects our commitment to building a welcoming and collaborative space for everyone.
Pottering away 🧑💻
$ workon django
(django) $ git branch template-partials main
(django) $ git switch template-partials
(django) $ bbedit .
#django 🦄
@sabderemane @katianakamura and @cgl attended @europython 2024 at the invitation of the EuroPython Society (EPS). They managed a DSF booth, participated in the OSS sustainability panel, and joined the PyLadies lunch and the Python organizers' lunch.
Congratulations to the new PSF fellows, @adamchainz and @paulox! We are thrilled to have representation from members of the Django community. 💚
💡 Did you know they also both won the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize?
Check out their announcements in thread 🧵
🚀 Feature Friday: Database-computed default values in Django!
Did you know about db_default field attribute that recently landed in Django 5.0 ?
This feature allows the database to calculate the default values of your model fields. 🧵 (1/3)
🚀 Feature Friday: Simplified templates for form field rendering !
Django 5.0 introduced a field group and field group templates, simplifying the rendering of related form field elements like labels, widgets, help text, and errors.
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Hey #django friends! I'm almost done with a small utility and I wanted to see what y'all think of it before I release it. https://github.com/kennethlove/django-migrator is the repository and currently the only way to install it.
It adds three management commands:
- `reset_database` which drops all tables and runs migrations
- `redo_migration` which reverts and applies the last migration (this takes an optional app name)
- `revert_migration` which reverts 1+ migrations, also optionally for an app
I think they're handy tools, especially early in development.
Thanks for reading and looking!
Gah! That took longer than I thought. I'm exhausted. 😅
This month's Stack Report is going out now. A free-access edition giving my far-too-long thoughts on how we can Evolve Django's auth.User.
https://buttondown.com/carlton/archive/evolving-djangos-authuser/ #Django #TheStackReport
🚀 Feature Friday: This new testing feature is available for Python 3.12+ users with Django 5.0+ ⏰
With "test --durations", you can quickly find the slowest tests in your project, letting you optimize things where they'll have the most impact.
The #Django community is one that opens doors and welcomes people in. This wouldn't be possible without our opportunity grant sponsor, the @django. Thank you Django Software Foundation for helping make #DjangoConUS accessible to more folks!
🚀 Feature Friday: Unique constraints with null values!
Have you ever had a Model field that you wanted to be optional, but unique if it was present?
Django 5.0's new nulls_distinct attribute now allows you to do this!
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#Django #DjangoFeatureFriday
🎉 Feature Friday: Django's Database-Generated Fields!
Need DB-generated values in your Django models? Meet the new GeneratedField!
Define fields with values created by the database, not Django. Powerful for computed columns & more.
DB-generated fields can be used for the following use cases:
• Computed columns
• Default values from DB functions
• Auto-updating timestamps
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#Django #DjangoFeatureFriday
Here's a small sample code showing the usage of GeneratedField:
OK, @CodenameTim had a super idea: We’re going to do a package maintainers open space @djangocon. If you’re a maintainer in the @django ecosystem (or you want to be) and you’ll be there, look out for that. We can share our woes, and joys of course, and plans, and hopes. 🤗 #Django #djangocon #DjangoconUS
The ponies have arrived!!! 🦄 🔥
Check out our snazzy sticker packs for #DjangoConUS!
You can grab one in person after my ⚡️ quick ⚡️ lightning talk!
If you can't make it (like @adamghill!) visit https://djangostickers.com for more info and be sure to sign up for our mailing list! 💌
See you all at @djangocon! 👋
🚀 Feature Friday: QuerySet.prefetch_related() supports GenericForeignKey for Django 5.0 and above!
This seemingly minor change might be a big win for performance in your django projects. Let’s see how 👇
#Django #DjangoFeatureFriday
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On stage at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit: mentor @laymonage showcases the work of Shafiya Adzhani. Shafiya’s project directly followed from Sage’s cross-DB JSONField work back in 2019 🎉
This year’s #gsoc marks 19 years of #Django participating in the program ❤️
Today during @webology 's office hours I was inspired by an idea from @alexgmin and made this: https://pypi.org/project/django_wplogin/
It's an enhancement for #Django 's admin login page, inspired by best practices found in other frameworks. If you try it let me know what you think 🙃
In case you missed it yesterday, my co-maintainer/co-conspirator @alexgmin and I released https://pypi.org/project/django_wplogin/, a Django plugin to enhance the admin login page, inspired by wordpress.
🚀 Feature Friday: Django's update_or_create() got Smarter in v5.0!
The new create_defaults argument lets you handle creation vs update scenarios elegantly, bringing more power to Django's object management.
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#Django #DjangoFeatureFriday
Expression of interest for the 6.X Steering Council: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4kDHSRr-ayuXensVogJLwx14jeRClAmHXfFhmw04vAUYnPQ/viewform
Anyone can use this form to either:
- Give the DSF your email so they reach out to you once the elections are happening.
- Share your details so the DSF can check your eligibility as a candidate and let you know, ahead of the actual elections
- Do an early registration as a candidate (the DSF will reach out to confirm closer to the elections)
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