Archives for 2021

Wed 29 December 2021

• Python type hints: handle optional imports

• Set up a Gunicorn Configuration File, and Test It

Thu 16 December 2021

• Django: introducing django-browser-reload, for automatically refreshing your browser during development

Wed 08 December 2021

• Preorder My New Book: Boost Your Django DX

Mon 22 November 2021

• Django-related Deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021

Thu 04 November 2021

• The Well-Maintained Test: 12 Questions for New Dependencies

Wed 03 November 2021

• Software engineering is programming integrated over time

Mon 18 October 2021

• Python type hints: types for a descriptor

Fri 15 October 2021

• A Python Script Template with Sub-commands (and Type Hints)

Wed 13 October 2021

• How to Create a Transparent Attribute Alias in Python

Tue 12 October 2021

• Three more uses for functools.partial() in Django

Sun 10 October 2021

• The Many Ways to Exit in Python

Sat 09 October 2021

• A Python Script Template, with and without Type Hints and Async

Fri 08 October 2021

• Tips for debugging with print()

Tue 28 September 2021

• New Testing Features in Django 4.0

Thu 23 September 2021

• Truncating my blog posts with Python’s HTMLParser

Mon 20 September 2021

• How to Fix Pip “Yanked Version” Warnings

Fri 17 September 2021

• Does Python support semicolons?

Thu 16 September 2021

• Why does Python log a warning for “invalid decimal literal”?

• Introducing django-upgrade, a tool for upgrading your Django projects

Tue 14 September 2021

• I converted my Lambda@Edge Function to CloudFront Functions

Mon 13 September 2021

• Three Cheers for blacken-docs

• This Blog Is Now a Pythonic Pelican-Powered Publication

Wed 08 September 2021

• Python type hints: use cases for the types module

Tue 07 September 2021

• Python type hints: types for regular expressions

Mon 06 September 2021

• Python type hints: vary return type based on an argument

Sat 10 July 2021

• Python type hints: how to avoid “the boolean trap”

Fri 09 July 2021

• Python type hints: how to use typing.Literal

Thu 08 July 2021

• Django 3.2 Update for “Speed Up Your Django Tests” Released

Tue 06 July 2021

• Python type hints: how to use typing.cast()

Mon 05 July 2021

• Recent Updates to time-machine

Sun 04 July 2021

• Python type hints: types for a context manager

Wed 30 June 2021

• How to use Python’s HTTPStatus with Django

Mon 14 June 2021

• Python type hints: three somewhat unexpected uses of typing.Any in Python’s standard library

Wed 09 June 2021

• Python type hints: narrow types with TypeGuard

Tue 01 June 2021

• DjangoCon Europe 2021 Sale of “Speed Up Your Django Tests”

Sat 29 May 2021

• Python type hints: how to use @overload

Tue 25 May 2021

• Python type hints: manage “type: ignore” comments with Mypy

Sun 23 May 2021

• Python type hints: Mypy doesn’t allow variables to change type

Fri 21 May 2021

• Python type hints: upgrade syntax with pyupgrade

Thu 20 May 2021

• Python type hints: what’s the point of NoReturn?

Wed 19 May 2021

• Python type hints: use Mypy’s unreachable code detection

Tue 18 May 2021

• Python type hints: duck typing with Protocol

Mon 17 May 2021

• Python type hints: narrow types with isinstance(), assert, and Literal

Sun 16 May 2021

• Python type hints: specify a class rather than an instance thereof

Sat 15 May 2021

• Python type hints: enable postponed evaluation with __future__.annotations

Fri 14 May 2021

• Python type hints: debug types with reveal_type()

Thu 13 May 2021

• Python type hints: fix circular imports

Wed 12 May 2021

• Python type hints: Create a TypedDict with non-identifier keys

Tue 11 May 2021

• Python type hints: *args and **kwargs

Mon 10 May 2021

• Python type hints: How to Use TypedDict

Sun 09 May 2021

• How to Build a Webhook Receiver in Django

Sat 08 May 2021

• Using Django Check Constraints to Limit the Range of an IntegerField

Fri 07 May 2021

• Python type hints: Use object instead of Any

Thu 06 May 2021

• How to List All Time Zones in Python

Wed 05 May 2021

• Three uses for functools.partial() in Django

Tue 04 May 2021

• Disabling FLoC, Google’s new advertising technology

Sat 01 May 2021

• How to set the new COEP, COOP, and CORP security headers in Django

Fri 16 April 2021

• Introducing the heroicons Python Package

Tue 13 April 2021

• django-feature-policy is now django-permissions-policy

• Reindexing all tables after upgrading to PostgreSQL 13

Mon 12 April 2021

• Django: convert a TestCase from using setUp() to setUpTestData()

Fri 26 February 2021

• Using Django Check Constraints to Prevent Self-Following

Sun 21 February 2021

• Improve your Django experience with IPython

Sat 20 February 2021

• Django’s release code words, up until 3.2

Fri 19 February 2021

• time-machine versus freezegun, a benchmark

Wed 10 February 2021

• New Testing Features in Django 3.2

Thu 04 February 2021

• Using Django Check Constraints to Limit A Model to a Single Instance

Sun 31 January 2021

• Using Django Check Constraints to Prevent the Storage of The Empty String

Tue 26 January 2021

• Cheap Bug Protection With pre-commit’s Regex Hooks

Mon 25 January 2021

• How to Limit Test Time in Django’s Test Framework

Fri 22 January 2021

• Reading CloudFlare headers in a Django middleware

Thu 21 January 2021

• Simple In-Memory Caching of Django Model Data With cachetools

Wed 20 January 2021

• Django: make autoreloading more efficient with Watchman

Tue 05 January 2021

• How to Set Up report-uri.com on Django

Mon 04 January 2021

• Better Exception Output in Django’s Test Runner With better-exceptions

Sun 03 January 2021

• How to Override the gunicorn Server Header