🚀 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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🎉 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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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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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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🚀 Feature Friday: Django 5.0 introduced more options for declaring field choices!
Now you can use Mapping, a callable, and strings for single-character choices, in addition to the traditional tuples and enumeration.
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We're already a week out from #DjangoCon US 2024. How did that happen?! If you're missing seeing all your Django friends faces, here are two of them.
In this @kjaymiller production of DjangoCon US Perspectives, Jay speaks with Aman Singh! #Django
✨ 0.9.0 of dj-angles, a library to incorporate more HTML into #Django templates, is now published. ✨
The main feature is (beta) support for slots in components! 🎰🚀
Slots documentation: https://dj-angles.adamghill.com/en/latest/components.html#slots
📖 https://dj-angles.adamghill.com
📦 https://pypi.org/project/dj-angles
🛠️ https://github.com/adamghill/dj-angles
I created my first Django Trac ticket. Milestone?
It has not gone through triage yet, but at least it describes an accessibility issue that uses only dashes as an option value.
"Allow customization of the blank option in select dropdowns."
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/35870
(See my blog post for yesterday for more notes about dashes and hyphens)
Help us make it happen ❤️https://djangoproject.com/fundraising/ We’re at 84% of our fundraising goal for 2024 #GivingTuesday #Django
I answered the Django Software Foundation's invitation to run for the DSF 2025 board election 🗳️
I have published my nomination statement, along with some personal insights, for those who would like to know my thoughts in more detail 👇
https://www.paulox.net/2024/10/29/2025-django-software-foundation-board-nomination/
Following resignations on the Steering Council, Django’s technical direction needs a fresh take. Elections are coming up soon 👉️
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/nov/14/technical-governance-challenges-and-opportunities/
Thank you to our 12 candidates for the Django 6.x Steering Council elections! https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/dec/10/django-6x-steering-council-candidates/ We’re elated to see so many stellar contributors rise to the challenge 🚀 Now time to vote! #python #django
I made a successful deployment to Fly.io this morning, with a version of simple_deploy where the fly-specific code is in an external plugin.
This is *really* satisfying, because sorting out the packaging details that allow external plugins to work is the last major hurdle before a 1.0 release. Lots of small tasks left, but those should be quite manageable.
Next step: move the project to an organization, and separate it into core, and three platform-specific plugins.
🚀 Feature Friday: PostgreSQL Connection Pools!
This small-but-mighty change lets you enable connection pooling with a single line in your settings. This reduces the overhead of accessing your database, leading to improved performance.
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To celebrate spooky season and all things Halloween, I decided to make a Dracula theme for the Django admin! 🧛🏻♂️ ✨
https://github.com/sjbitcode/django-admin-dracula
Installing the theme overrides the default Django admin theme for both light and dark mode! 🦇
Check it out, and let me know what you think!
📰 New newsletter: Django News - DjangoCon Europe 2025 in Dublin, Ireland! 🍀 - Nov 15th 2024
🐍 On this Building SaaS with #Python and #Django, I made a new view that returns a zip archive. We'll use this archive as the container for year end PDF reports for the feature that I'm building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2zfjVh1zM8
My DjangoCon US talk "Hidden gems of Django 5.X" is available 💎 🎊
Summer approaches. It's getting hot. Slowly nudging our way to more info on Django on the Med 🏖️
We have a web page!
Admittedly it doesn't say much yet. 🚀
