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  1. Weeknotes 2020 WK 38

    It felt like a busy week.

  2. Weeknotes 2020 WK 37

    It was quieter this week. With 3.1.1 out of the way, the first batch of Release Blockers for Django 3.1 are resolved. With that it starts to slow down a bit: people have tested out the new features and found …

  3. Weeknotes 2020 WK 36

    Three versions of Django out this week. 3.1.1, 3.0.10 and 2.2.16.

  4. Weeknotes 2020 WK 35

    I was going to take the week off this week, but with Django 3.1 just out, folks are starting to play with the new async views and middleware. This meant a couple of issues just to look at.

  5. What’s a middleware?

    “What’s a middleware?”, asks the boy. Docs are open on my screen.

  6. Weeknotes 2020 WK 34

    The exciting thing this week was the announcement of the Google Season of Docs projects.

  7. Weeknotes 2020 WK33

    Pushing on the the Channels update, and recording my DjangoCon EU talk, but nothing too much to report there this week.

  8. Weeknotes 2020 WK32

    Inspired by Simon Willison’s Weeknotes posts, I thought I’d give it a try. Initial 3 months. Will review how that went at the end.

  9. Git: show file at commit

    Shows the contents of the file Documentation/README as they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch next.

  10. MySQL quickly with docker

    You just want MySQL up quickly to test against: