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!
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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 …
My current set of tools for deploying my application to production includes Packer and Terraform. I didn't write all of the code for the deployments, but I've been over most of it now.
When trying to upgrade my server from Ubuntu 20.01 to 22.01, I ran into some …
This is a short post to tell you to create more bash aliases.
I have had one for my devops setup for a while because I have to set several environment variables to get just about anything done. More recently, though, I set up a few more for my main …
There are a few code formatting tools I like to use in just about any Python (and Django) project: black, isort, and flake8. These all serve slightly different purposes, and there are alternatives to each. A full discussion/comparison of code formatting tools in Python is beyond the scope of …
I found the documentation for presigned URLS on AWS using boto to be insufficient, so here is how I formed the request.
I wanted to have a file private in S3, but expose it to a user for download if they were authorized to access it. I found the easiest …
I am creating a Django application using PostgreSQL (PSQL) for my database and was nearly finished with the API when I discovered some strange behavior. After successfully testing the API in the Django app, I decided to run some basic queries on the database. I received the following error for …
While trying to get more familiar with Django, I started watching talks from DjangoCon from the last few years. I can’t seem to find the talk, but one of them had a list of great Python/Django talks, which inspired me to create me own list (with some definite …
Because I feel much more comfortable in a terminal than on the Windows command line (or in Powershell), I’ve really been enjoying Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In fact, I use it almost exclusively for accessing the server I run this blog from. WSL is essentially a Linux VM …