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- 20 Nov 2024 - Steering Council 6.x Thoughts
- Inside are ideas on things the Steering Council I would like to attempt if elected next term.
- 06 Nov 2024 - On Open-Source Packagement
- Maintaining a package beyond the software. A post that covers a talk I was meant to give at the Black Python Devs Leadership Summit.
- 13 Oct 2024 - DSF initiatives I'd like to see
- Following Sarah Boyce's lead, here's my list of DSF initiatives I'd like to see for 2024.
- 04 Oct 2024 - On the importance of DjangoCons
- A deeper dive into why DjangoCons are important to the Django community and how it could be more accurately reflected.
- 03 Oct 2024 - Putting Linux Mint on a 2012 MacBook Pro
- A quick and fun review of my effort to install a new OS.
- 26 Sep 2024 - Revisiting Django Built to Last
- A revisit on Community and Reliability within Django
- 17 Aug 2024 - Creating rows for django-tables2 with HTMX
- An explanation of how to use django-tables2, HTMX, Alpine and Bootstrap to render a table with a form to create new rows.
- 22 Jul 2024 - Reducing downtime in Django with django-safemigrate
- A thorough description of why downtime occurs during Django deployments and how to reduce it with django-safemigrate.
- 19 Jun 2024 - How to assess a software project
- An walk-through of how to breakdown a project to understand the size and scope.
- 22 May 2024 - Django Commons - A home for community-maintained Django packages
- A community run GitHub organization to support community-maintained third-party Django packages.
- 24 Apr 2024 - An unsettling dream
- An emotional dive into the blurred lines of reality and perception.
- 29 Mar 2024 - Why generosity turns to rage, and what to do about it | Lunch Talk
- A talk by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis and my review
- 27 Mar 2024 - My Typical Workday Schedule
- A brief breakdown of what a typical workday is for me.
- 15 Feb 2024 - Djangonaut Space 2024 Session 1 Midway Review
- My recap of my experiences during the first half of Djangonaut Space Session 1.
- 25 Jan 2024 - Informal Django Roadmap Ideas for 2024
- My ideas for what Django could attempt in 2024 and beyond.
- 22 Jan 2024 - Redirecting With POST Requests
- An explanation of how to replace 300 redirects with a POST requests.
- 30 Dec 2023 - 2023 - My year in review
- A look back at my efforts in 2023.
- 06 Dec 2023 - The Fanout Pattern Explained
- A brief overview of the fanout pattern that's commonly used in Celery.
- 04 Nov 2023 - Debugging CSRF Failed / 403 Forbidden errors in Django
- A guided deep dive into Django's source code to understand why your application is failing CSRF validation.
- 26 Oct 2023 - Luckiest Dev in the World
- A collection of occurrences in which I've benefited from good luck.
- 03 Oct 2023 - RegisterFields in Django
- An explanation of a Django model field that returns an instance of a class depending on a key.
- 18 Aug 2023 - Descriptive Django Admin Search
- If you have people using the Django admin without knowing the code you can make their life easier by showing the fields that are actually being searched.
- 18 Aug 2023 - Professional Djangonaut skills
- A brief description of various skills, experiences and technologies I feel that a professional Djangonaut has.
- 12 Jul 2023 - Testing thoughts are up!
- I've added some thoughts on testing to my Unsung Developer Thoughts. Check it out!
- 25 Jun 2023 - Unsung Development Thoughts
- I've added a new section to my site called Unsung Developer Thoughts. Check it out!
- 03 Jun 2023 - Django migrations and your database
- This is my attempt to help clear up confusion about Django migrations and your database.
- 02 Jun 2023 - What makes a good team?
- Short answer, trust.
- 21 Apr 2023 - Send your people to DjangoCon
- One Djangonaut's opinion on why companies should send their employees to DjangoCon.
- 05 Apr 2023 - Filtering rows every 5 days with the Django ORM
- An explanation on how to filter data with a periodic date in Django.
- 30 Mar 2023 - Django Built to Last
- A reflection on Django and our community in the context of the book 'Built to Last' by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras.
- 28 Feb 2023 - Plotting the trail for Django Cairn
- An explanation of how I break down the work needed for a Django project.
- 26 Jan 2023 - Django Cairn - A collection of Django knowledge
- An idea to create a place for Django developers find helpful knowledge.
- 31 Dec 2022 - Questions to ask a Django company
- A discussion of questions to ask a Django company before accepting a job.
- 14 Dec 2022 - 2022 - My year in review
- A look back at my efforts in 2022.
- 18 Nov 2022 - Django Debugging Tutorial
- An overview of the tools and methodologies used to debug Django applications.
- 12 Nov 2022 - Annotated paginator page
- A code snippet to annotated a page within Django.
- 23 Oct 2022 - How to have a great DjangoCon
- A brief overview on a first time DjangoCon attendee's experience and recommendations.
- 05 Oct 2022 - New Site - Jekyll and Hyde
- 30 Apr 2014 - Project - Craigslist Project Finder
- 18 Apr 2014 - Project - Google Calendar Integration
- 18 Apr 2014 - Project - Drop Ship FTP Integration
- 15 Apr 2014 - Better Simple's Project Development Process
- 24 Oct 2013 - Project - Daily and Weekly Goals
- 21 Sep 2013 - Project - Scraping an image for numbers
- 19 Sep 2013 - What's This About?