Damian’s notes

A few years back I created an interactive article navigator as an exercise in learning React. I thought I’d see what it was like doing it over now I’ve been writing UIs in React for a few years.

New Article Navigator 31 December 2022

Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 10 months ago.

Doing favicons in Django

(Via @simonw on Twitter)

How to Add a Favicon to Your Django Site Your site’s favicon appears in the browser tab, and is a key way to brand your site. Setting up a favicon is a simple task, but once you start considering vendor-specific icons, it becomes more complicated.

Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 9 months ago.

Oddly named package for producing a diagram of your Django project's object model

GitHub - LegoStormtroopr/django-spaghetti-and-meatballs: Its a spicy meatball for serving up fresh hot entity-relationship diagrams straight from your django models. Its a spicy meatball for serving up fresh hot entity-relationship diagrams straight from your django models. - GitHub - LegoStormtroopr/django-spaghetti-and-meatballs: Its a spicy meatball for serv...

Noted by Damian Cugley 3 years ago.

Django SQL Dashboard provides an authenticated interface for executing read-only SQL queries directly against your PostgreSQL database, allowing exploration and visualization of your data with minimal friction. Queries can be bookmarked and turned in to publish dashboards.

(Via Django SQL Dashboard)

GitHub - simonw/django-sql-dashboard: Django app for building dashboards using raw SQL queries Django app for building dashboards using raw SQL queries - GitHub - simonw/django-sql-dashboard: Django app for building dashboards using raw SQL queries

Noted by Damian Cugley 3 years, 4 months ago.

Python 3.9 adds IANA time zone support. Its tzinfo implementations behave slightly differently from the pytz package used in Django when it comes to calculations crossing daylight-savings-time boundaries, so there is going to be a gradual process of replacement and deprecation in future versions.

(Via @simonw on Twitter)

Weeknotes 2020 WK 41 OMG Timezones A while back, Python core contributor Paul Ganssle opened a proof-of-concept PR on Django to deprecate use of pytz and move to use of the new zoneinfo module, that was introduced in Python 3.9, with a backport available all the way to Python 3.6. I got round to taking this on this week. We’re a way from the Django 3.2 feature freeze, but I’m old now, and I like a bit of hustle early in the cycle, rather than right to the wire.

Noted by Damian Cugley 4 years ago.

Django podcast about speeding up your Django tests, featuring Adam Johnson, who literally wrote the book on the subject.

Having useful tests, and having them run quickly and often, is a cornerstone to reliable web development—something I am appreciating in Django all the more now I am working on not-Django for my day job.