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Weeknotes 2021 Week 17
Family birthday this weekend, so just a quickie. 🎂
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Weeknotes 2021 Week 16
We’ve been sheltering now, the same as you, for over a year. Thus far it’s worked: we’ve been COVID-free.
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Weeknotes 2021 WK 15
There seemed to be a lot of Release Blockers this week — bugs in new features, or regressions from previous versions. That’s to be expected: folks are installing the new version (3.2) and coming up against the changes. Ultimately, it’s …
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Weeknotes 2021 Week 14
This week was all about towards Tuesday. We had three security releases first thing, which Mariusz knocked out, and then Django 3.2 final a little later in the day.
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Weeknotes 2021 Week 13
Happy Easter 🥚 — Our rabbit brought Milka bars. According to our youngest supply of eggs was constrained because of coronavirus.
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Weeknotes 2021 Week 12
There’s ongoing work to update the Stripe integration on djangoproject.com — for the fundraising, you know. Go support Django now! 😃
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Weeknotes 2021 Week 11
As part of Django 3.2 autocomplete_fields now supports custom to_field and limit_choices_to when searching a related model.
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Weeknotes 2021 Week 10
Weeknotes 2021 Week 10
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Weeknotes 2021 Week 9
This week I got going with two pieces of kit that have been on the backlog for a while: Alpine.js and PythonKit, which is for Swift. Whilst doing this I began a Today I learnt section on the site, for …
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Weeknotes 2021 Week 8
The pandemic is still on so, On holiday is carrying a lot of work there. I stayed at home, took some time off, and got a much-needed small mental break this week. Mostly that’s not looking at the Django Trac. …