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855 bookmarks by garrettc
"I've previously written about "yield" and generators. In that article, I mention it's a topic that novices find confusing. The purpose and creation of decorators is another such topic (using them, however, is rather easy). In this post, you'll learn what decorators are, how they're created, and why they're so useful."
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How to correctly build pagination in Django.
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Nice deep dive into how static files work in Django.
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This article looks at how to leverage Django's default permission system to assign permissions to users and groups.
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"A custom Django user that authenticates via email. Follows identity and authentication best practices."
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"Rent Free Media is a publishing distribution of Wagtail + Django aimed specifically at content creators who might otherwise use platforms such as Patreon, Substack, and Apple Podcasts. With it you can publish any sort of content to subscription users, as those services allow you to do."
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Building tables with search, filtering, and pagination.
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"Django Query Capture can check the query situation at a glance, notice slow queries, and notice where N+1 occurs."
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“When it comes to code reviews, it’s a common phenomenon that there is much focus and long-winded discussions around mundane aspects like code formatting and style, whereas important aspects (does the code change do what it is supposed to do, is it performant, is it backwards-compatible for existing clients, and many others) tend to get less attention.”
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A repository for the discussion and publication of the CFPB development team standards.
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"As a frequent open source maintainer and contributor, I’m often asked: where do you start? How do you approach a new project with the goal of making meaningful changes? How can you possibly understand the internals of a complex project?"
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Example code using GitHub actions and simonw’s new screenshot tool.
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"Playwright is a Python library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit browsers with a single API. Playwright delivers automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast."
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I provide a deeper-dive on the tech stack I like to use in 2021. It is simple, easy to work with, and allows you to grow out of it when the time comes. Updated for 2021!”
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This is a very barebones editor that supports clicking on any pixel in a JPEG image to see the 64 DCT coefficients that make up that 8x8 block. Each individual coefficient can be edited through text.
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"Wagtail forms let the editor customize field types and titles, but not placeholder text. While you could write a custom template and hard-code the placeholder text, this quickly becomes a burden whenever the forms need changed. Here’s how to extend the Wagtail form field to enable editors to customize placeholder text."
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Learn how to upgrade an IKEA lamp into a colourful IoT light, with the power of ESP32, MicroPython and Neopixels!
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"Developers have opinions on what a good API1 is, but rarely have a shared vocabulary to describe what makes them good. This essay puts forward one set of considerations (out of many) that we started using at Stripe in 2019 to discuss API design."
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Bot 101 from the bloke who made @yokoonobot and @fesshole
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"redbean makes it possible to share web applications that run offline as a single-file actually portable executable zip archive which contains your assets. […] redbean can serve 1 million+ gzip encoded responses per second on a cheap personal computer. […] It embeds the Lua programming language and SQLite which let you write dynamic pages. "
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Splash is a javascript rendering service. It’s a lightweight web browser with an HTTP API, implemented in Python 3 using Twisted and QT5.
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Learn about how venvs, flake8, black, isort, pytest, commitizen, semantic-release, pre-commit hooks, and Github Actions work together.
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A compact, lightweight, yet capable game development system.
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“…a server-less virtual Linux environment that runs unmodified Debian binaries in the browser.”
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"…can machine learning be used to identify a type of cheese?"
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GitHub Actions by Example is an introduction to the service through annotated examples.
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Resolve form field arguments dynamically when a form is instantiated, not when it's declared.
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This application enables you to create and manage follows, blocks and bi-directional friendships between users.
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"Hyperscript is an easy and approachable language designed for modern front-end web development."
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Internet history for developers and the technically curious
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Loading a Service Worker in Django might be tricky. Let's see how to make it work in this brief post!
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