Django News

Hi everyone,

We apologize to anyone who didn't receive the Django News Newsletter Issue #228 last Friday and to anyone who just received a duplicate edition. Issue #229 is a re-send of what everything should have received last Friday.

Last week, our newsletter provider had a hiccup, and we estimate that less than 10% of our subscribers received their weekly Friday edition of Django News. We felt terrible that you didn't receive it and that two conference CFPs will have ended before our next newsletter goes out.

We decided our best bet was to re-send everyone an updated Monday edition of Django News and apologize again for Friday's mishap.

Please note that Wagtail Space US's CFP ends today, April 22nd (hours left), and DjangoCon US's CFP ends Wednesday, April 24th (less than two days left).

Jeff and Will

News

Don't Miss Out: Last Call for DjangoCon US 2024 Talk Proposals!

Have you submitted your talk or tutorial for DjangoCon US 2024, in beautiful Durham, North Carolina, USA?

This is your last call to submit a talk or tutorial. The CFP deadline is April 24, 2024, at 12 PM EDT.

PyPI: Expanding Trusted Publisher Support

PyPI added GitLab CI/CD, Google Cloud, and ActiveState as Trusted Publishing providers.

Django Software Foundation

DSF Board meeting minutes for April 11, 2024

Here are the DSF Board's meeting minutes for April 11, 2024.

Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Raffaella Suardini from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 10 pull requests merged into Django by 5 different contributors - including 1 first-time contributor! Congratulations to Aleksander Milinkevich for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Coming in Django 5.0.5 (expected May 6th):

Resolved a compatibility issue with Python 3.11.9+ and 3.12.3+ when validating email max line lengths with content decoded using the surrogateescape error handling scheme.
Resolved a bug in Django 5.0 that makes Model.save() crash when creating a model instance with a GeneratedField and specifying a primary key.

Wagtail CMS

Wagtail Space CFP deadline is April 22

It's the last call to speak this summer at Wagtail Space US 2024.

Wagtail Space US 2024 – Call For Proposals

Wagtail Space Virtual Talks 2024 – Call For Proposals

Articles

7 simple examples using Django GeneratedField

Django 5.0 added a new feature, GeneratedField, which allows us to auto-calculate database fields. This article shows seven short examples of how to use it, so the database performs calculations exceptionally quickly.

Django from first principles, part 3

In the third installment of his series on constructing a comprehensive Django project from a single file, Eric Matthes explores enhancing your homepage with templates.

Building forms with the Django admin

A look at multiple ways, including over time, to build and style forms in the Django admin.

Styling a Django RSS Feed

A straightforward way to style your RSS feed in a Django app.

Enforcing conventions in Django projects with introspection

Some code and tips to combine Python and Django introspection APIs to enforce naming conventions in your Django models.

Tutorials

Building a Voice Notes App with Django and OpenAI

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a voice notes app using Django and OpenAI for speech-to-text conversion. Additionally, AlpineJS will manage the state on the front end.

Videos

Django 2024: The Latest Development Trends

Scheduled for Apr 25, 2024. Tune in to our upcoming livestream, where we’ll take you through the latest Django Developers Survey results based on responses from 4,000 Django developers.

Understanding Wasm: How We Got Here by Chris Dickinson @ Wasm I/O 2024

Let’s put Wasm and the problems it solves into historical context: what are we trying to solve, and for whom? What has been tried before? What makes this effort more likely to succeed? We’ll examine the history of virtual machines, operating systems, & hypervisors from the 1960s through the 2010s.

Podcasts

Django Chat #161: Kraken - Çağıl Uluşahin Sönmez

Çağıl is a Lead Backend Engineer at Kraken Tech, Django Software Foundation Vice President, and Django London Meetup co-organizer. We discuss her background studying computer science in Turkey, organizing DjangoGirls and Python events in Istanbul, and her current work today.

Python Test #218: Balancing test coverage with test costs

Nicole is a software engineer and writer, and recently wrote about the trade-offs we make when deciding which tests to write and how much testing is enough.