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Writing tagged django

  1. w/e 2023-04-09

    Update problems, pressure washing problems, and I Hate Suzie Too.

  2. w/e 2022-03-26

    Some Persian music, some coding stuff, The Gold, The Gold: The Inside Story, and Waco: American Apocalypse.

  3. w/e 2022-07-24

    Learning to scythe, improving my Django “DX”, True Things, Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Bergman Island.

  4. Hosting a Django site on cPanel

    How to host a Django website on a cPanel host if you really, really must.

  5. w/e 2021-11-28

    A bit more Docker, writing code for webmentions, an impossible wardrobe, The Billion Dollar Code and The Rhythm Section.

  6. w/e 2021-11-21

    Adult mom’s live Driver album, Indietracks closing, the same German test, Django and Docker, a bird, and Money Heist season one.

  7. Removing Exif data from images in Django

    How to remove Exif data from image files uploaded to a model’s ImageField in a Django project.

  8. Good ID

    I recently made the Good ID website for Unfold Stories, using Django and Wagtail.

  9. w/e 18 November 2018

    Fightmilk, Bad Moves and The Beths; Wagtail and Django; and ‘Wildlife’.

  10. Invalidating items from Django’s cache

    I poked around at Django’s per-site and per-view caching to work out why I couldn’t invalidate pages from the cache. I eventually worked out how to do it.

  11. Describing events in code

    Describing how I thought about writing code to catalogue 28 years of visits to cinemas, theatres, gigs, etc. and the decisions I made.

  12. Combining HTML files with a Django website

    Wondering how to host and serve lots of old HTML files when I move most of this site to Django.

  13. Add a Google map to Django admin to get latitude and longitude

    How I added a Google map to the Django admin page for a model that has latitude and longitude fields.

  14. Last.fm added to Django Ditto

    I’ve updated Django Ditto, which can now also archive your Last.fm listens.

  15. Django Ditto and archiving your stuff

    About making Django Ditto and whether it’s worth archiving all your ephemeral digital stuff.

  16. On spending too long setting up one webserver

    I learned how to use Ansible and it took way too long because I like to do things properly.

  17. Decades-long projects

    What I considered when starting the ten-year Pepys’ Diary project again.

  18. Storing private files on Amazon S3 with Django and giving authorised users temporary access

    How to do what that long title says, using signed URLs and all that stuff.

  19. Password protecting a Django site

    Adding simple htaccess-style password protection to a Django website.

  20. Using virtualenv with Django on WebFaction

    Getting a Django site running on WebFaction hosting using virtualenv.

  21. Week 381

    Frustrations and other things with Django.

  22. COMMENTS_APP error when extending Django comments

    I was getting an error when customising the Django comments app. Here’s my solution.

  23. Setting up a Django environment and project structure

    My notes on what I do to set up an environment for a Django project.

  24. Practical Django Projects source code

    I uploaded to Bitbucket the code I ended up with after following James Bennett’s book.