Django

Every election cycle, qualified Django community members talk themselves out of running. This post is for you. I want to encourage you to run!

September 30, 2026

Django Probe is a low effort, high impact way to support the community. By sharing how you use Django, the community can make better decisions.

September 17, 2026

Django's Q() objects allow you to do some fancy filtering!

September 09, 2026

You can hack Django's Index class to define custom migration operations on your model.

September 02, 2026

A recap of my fantastic DjangoCon US 2026 experience in Chicago. It's still my favorite conference and I will look forward to it every year.

August 31, 2026

The documentation now includes mentions of third-party packages and community maintained solutions, go check them out!

August 26, 2026

The Count expression only works on a single column, but you can use Subquery to count on multiple columns!

August 19, 2026

A hidden Django admin feature for passing values between windows.

August 12, 2026

DjangoCon US is coming up, and I'm pretty dang excited for several reasons. I hope to see you there!

August 07, 2026

There will come a time when your nested QuerySet performs poorly, when that happens, reach for Exists!

August 05, 2026

Speed up your tests by using the setUpTestData method.

July 29, 2026

A recap of my wonderful PyOhio 2026 experience. I absolutely loved the midwest vibes, the people and conference as a whole!

July 28, 2026

Form templates allow you to contain your form's customization to just the form, keeping your views nice and clean!

July 22, 2026

Model._meta.get_fields() lets you walk your related models and build custom cascading deletes.

July 15, 2026

See how Django's resolve function can turn your existing logs into an analytics tool.

July 08, 2026

Learn how F expressions reference model fields in queries, useful for filters, ordering, and race conditions.

July 02, 2026

An 'Emeritus' honor made me feel very fancy, and got me thinking about DEFNA's lasting impact on DjangoCon US and the Django community.

June 17, 2026

Want to contribute to Django but don't know where to start? I'm hosting weekly events on the Django Discord to help.

June 09, 2026

Projects hosting documentation on Read the Docs can earn money through EthicalAds. And now, you can route that directly to the DSF!

May 24, 2026

Have you been wondering if you should use Django Tasks for your next project? See how Djangonaut Space is using it today.

May 06, 2026

I officially started accepting clients for a Django mentoring business. If you, your colleagues, or company are wanting help in being a better Django developer or software engineer, please reach out.

April 21, 2026

Not sure how to get involved in the Django community? This guide covers everything from triaging tickets to organizing conferences, and even how to choose where to start.

April 06, 2026

Django Security Label is a Django third-party package to help you define rules to dynamically anonymize/mask your data for PostgreSQL databases. It makes use of the PostgreSQL Anonymizer extension and supports creating any type of SECURITY LABEL.

March 18, 2026

The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.

March 16, 2026

Ever wonder why you need to use safe=False to return arrays of JSON object in JsonResponse? Welp, it's because of ECMAScript 4 and you don't have to worry these days.

February 06, 2026

Sprints are a valuable event at conferences, for you, the project, and the broader community. This post helps you prepare to get the most out of them.

January 14, 2026

It's easier to contribute to open-source if you connect with people. This post dives into where to do that to connect with the Django community.

November 26, 2025

I've updated my debugging tutorial. It's a self-guided tutorial to learn about a Djangonaut's debugging toolkit.

November 03, 2025

Give it a read! Maybe these six techniques will bring you joy too. You can't go wrong with being able to write better tests, faster.

September 17, 2025

A recap of my fantastic DjangoCon Africa, UbuCon Africa 2025 experience. It was the first time I travelled to Africa, keynoted a conference and went on a safari.

August 25, 2025

A quick post on why we should include references to third-party packages in Django's documentation. Mainly, we've already solved curation and developers are doing to develop!

July 09, 2025

Revisiting the state of Django Commons a year after I published a call for help.

May 21, 2025

A discussion about how small meetups could help us bridge the mentorship gap and how we can put them into practice today.

May 17, 2025

A list of talks that I'm personally interested in seeing at DjangoCon US 2025.

April 02, 2025

When removing multi-table inheritance in Django, you need to remove your Model's bases from the migration's model state. This post goes into detail on when this comes up and how to resolve it.

March 19, 2025

Exploring some new hotness from Django 5.2 that makes HTMX integrations more robust.

January 29, 2025

I discovered that the release process for the Django Debug Toolbar wasn't as robust as I thought.

January 15, 2025

An overview on how to do complex filtering in Django with Subquery.

January 01, 2025

A collection of resources to help you get started contributing to Django.

December 25, 2024

Inside are ideas on things the Steering Council I would like to attempt if elected next term.

November 20, 2024

Following Sarah Boyce's lead, here's my list of DSF initiatives I'd like to see for 2024.

October 13, 2024

A deeper dive into why DjangoCons are important to the Django community and how it could be more accurately reflected.

October 04, 2024

A quick and fun review of my effort to install a new OS.

October 03, 2024

A revisit on Community and Reliability within Django

September 26, 2024

An explanation of how to use django-tables2, HTMX, Alpine and Bootstrap to render a table with a form to create new rows.

August 17, 2024

A thorough description of why downtime occurs during Django deployments and how to reduce it with django-safemigrate.

July 22, 2024

A community run GitHub organization to support community-maintained third-party Django packages.

May 22, 2024

My recap of my experiences during the first half of Djangonaut Space Session 1.

February 15, 2024

My ideas for what Django could attempt in 2024 and beyond.

January 25, 2024

An explanation of how to replace 300 redirects with a POST requests.

January 22, 2024

A brief overview of the fanout pattern that's commonly used in Celery.

December 06, 2023

A guided deep dive into Django's source code to understand why your application is failing CSRF validation.

November 04, 2023

An explanation of a Django model field that returns an instance of a class depending on a key.

October 03, 2023

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.

August 18, 2023

A brief description of various skills, experiences and technologies I feel that a professional Djangonaut has.

August 18, 2023

This is my attempt to help clear up confusion about Django migrations and your database.

June 03, 2023

One Djangonaut's opinion on why companies should send their employees to DjangoCon.

April 21, 2023

An explanation on how to filter data with a periodic date in Django.

April 05, 2023

A reflection on Django and our community in the context of the book 'Built to Last' by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras.

March 30, 2023

An explanation of how I break down the work needed for a Django project.

February 28, 2023

An idea to create a place for Django developers find helpful knowledge.

January 26, 2023

An overview of the tools and methodologies used to debug Django applications.

November 18, 2022

A code snippet to annotated a page within Django.

November 12, 2022

A brief overview on a first time DjangoCon attendee's experience and recommendations.

October 23, 2022