At DjangoConUS 2019, Carlton Gibson gave a talk called Using Django as a Micro-Framework, where he demonstrated a single file implementation of "Hello, World!" in Django.

At the sprints during DjangoConUS 2023, Paolo Melchiorre showed off an even more minimal version that sparked some great discussion. Specifically, the usage of …

Since my last post on aliases, I've added a few new aliases. Two are from Boost Your Django DX, which I'd highly recommend. The first is a straight cut from the book:

alias pip="python -m pip"

Using python -m pip instead of pip ensures you are using the version …

I have been using Stripe to process payments for my company AstroVenture (see more context in a previous post here) for a couple of years now, and it has worked great. One thing that took me quite a while to figure out was how to test that we were properly …

This is the fourth and final installment of the series breaking down my talk from DjangoConUS 2022. The first entry covered background information about the project, the second was about using Django Rest Framework, and the third was about infrastructure and deployment.

Before diving in, I'd like to emphasize that …

I recently received an email from Apple stating that they are migrating users from altool to notarytool to notarize applications. Apple says altool will no longer work for notarization starting November 1 2023, but that applications notarized before that will still behave as normal. I previously wrote about notarizing a …

This is the third installment of the series breaking down my talk from DjangoConUS 2022. The first entry covered background information about the project and the second was about using Django Rest Framework.

First, some important context: if you are a devops engineer, or have a lot of experience with …

If you've ended up here from somewhere outside of this blog, and are looking for an exhaustive comparison of these two libraries, I regret to inform you, this isn't that. If you're here for the next installment of the series breaking down my talk from DjangoConUS 2022, welcome back!

This …

In this post, I'd like to provide the context for the project I'm currently writing about on this blog. I'm also using this as an opportunity to start a series of blog posts breaking down my recent talk from DjangoConUS 2022 about what I learned related to Django while building …

So far in my main project (more on that to come), the only users of the admin have been myself and my cofounder, so I've made us both superusers. Recently, I had a request to allow an instructor to view and update data from their own courses. This would require …

And now for something completely different...

You may have noticed my favicon is a mug of coffee. I'm a huge coffee fan, and the last few years I've gone further down the rabbit hole with third wave/specialty coffee.

I recently bought a new coffee grinder to upgrade from my …