Django

Django from first principles, part 16

MP 110: Allowing users to create their own blogs. Note: This is the 16th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post we connected each

Django

Django from first principles, part 15

MP 109: Connecting users with blogs. Note: This is the 15th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post we finished setting up user accounts.

reflections

My mechanical keyboard journey

MP 108: A long and winding road to a small set of favorite keyboards. We're nearing the final stages of preparing for a cross-country move, which means getting rid of anything we don't absolutely need in a new home several thousand miles from here. One of

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Django from first principles, part 14

MP 107: Building a registration page for new users. Note: This is the 14th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post we built a

Django

Django from first principles, part 13

MP 106: Letting users log in, and log out. Note: This is the 13th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series is free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post we restructured the project

Django

Django from first principles, part 12

MP 105: Reorganizing a project to manage increasing complexity. Note: This is the 12th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series is free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post we wrote a script

Managing two computers

MP 104: Keeping two machines in sync, using Syncthing. Note: The Django from first principles series will continue next week. My basic computing setup has changed a lot over the years, but for a while now I've had a pretty simple setup. I invested in a Mac Studio

Django

Django from first principles, part 11

MP 103: Generating sample data for local development. Note: This is the eleventh post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. The BlogMaker Lite project is coming along nicely,

Django

Django from first principles, part 10

MP 102: Making a page for individual posts. Note: This is the tenth post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post, we created a page

Django

Django from first principles, part 9

MP 101: Adding a page for each individual blog. Note: This is the ninth post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. At this point the BlogMaker Lite project

pathlib

How clean are your backups?

MP 100: And what about your archives? Note: The Django from first principles series will continue next week. Next month we're moving from our home on an island in southeast Alaska to a small town in western North Carolina. We're using this as an opportunity to

Django

Django from first principles, part 8

MP 99: Styling the blogs page, and collecting static files into one directory. Note: This is the eighth post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last

Django

Django from first principles, part 7

MP 98: Incorporating a minimal CSS framework, and adding custom styles. Note: This is the seventh post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. When you're building

PyCon

Generating code snippets

MP 97: My approach to generating code snippets for presentations. Note: I've been busy at PyCon this past week. The ongoing series about building a Django project from a single file will continue next week. I gave a talk at PyCon in Pittsburgh this weekend, and one interesting

Django

Django from first principles, part 6

MP 96: Making a page that includes data, and linking between pages. Note: This is the sixth post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post

Django

Django from first principles, part 5

MP 95: Modeling blog posts, and retrieving specific data from the database. Note: This is the fifth post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post