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Making Django Ready for the Next 20 Years

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

If you'd rather watch a video instead of reading an article, you can also have a look at my recent Djangonaut Space session on YouTube where I talked about similar topics.

As a member of the Django community for the past 10 years, I've had the privilege of witnessing firsthand the project's growth and evolution.

Over the decade, I've seen many exciting changes and improvements that have shaped Django into the powerful tool it is today.
However, I've …

Django TemplateYaks

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

{% verbatim %}Lately I've been writing more Django template tags than usual and last Thursday morning, I spotted a Mastodon Thread 🧵 about Django templates and composability.

As part of this thread, I mentioned the fact that "complex" (or advanced) templatetags were a pain to write and that one thing that was missing for Django templates to be composable was a version of {% include %} that supports "blocks" (ie: something like {% includeblock %}...{% endincludeblock %}).

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My Django wishlist explained

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Most of my job revolves around building Django-based applications. A lot of the tools you use to build applications are different than the tools you need to build websites.

This post is written mostly from the perspective of an application developer.

With that out of the way, let's dig into the wishlist, my wishlist is based on the choices and libraries I include in a majority of project I start.

Deployment

Documentation

As far as deplyment …

Stability without stagnation

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Recently several different conversations around Django, stability, conservativism and/or breaking changes have caught my eye. Having been known a while ago in certain Python circles as "the Ember lady", I couldn't help but draw some parallels with EmberJS and the way they have been managing releases since several years.

Disclaimer: this post asks a lot of questions and provides absolutely no answer. My hope is that some of those questions might foster some fruitful discussions.

For those …

A new-to-me laptop

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I've decided to start blogging again and figured this would be a great subject to start with.

So, I've recently got my hands on a used Acer 514 Chromebook. As far as laptops go, this is a very underpowered computer with limited (4GB) ram, a nice keyboard and a great screen!

Before going any further, I should probably explain a few things... As a webdev, I've always prefered working on somewhat limited hardware (usually CPU). This is …