June 2020

julien.danjou.info

Why naive timestamps carry no useful information, and the case for always using timezone-aware datetime objects and ISO 8601 in Python.

wanago.io

How to type React function components with generic props, building a reusable table component that stays type-safe for any row type.

automationpanda.com

How to internationalise the Django admin — settings, translation files, and adding a language switcher to the admin interface.

djangostars.com

How to run complex analytical queries with SQLAlchemy Core alongside Django's ORM in the same project, covering engine setup, debugging and multi-database testing.

markusholtermann.eu

Advanced Django ORM query techniques — aggregation, query optimisation, and picking the top-k rows per group without dropping to raw SQL.

medium.com

How to sort Solr results by a custom function, implemented with your own ValueSource and ValueSourceParser classes when field-based sorting is not enough.

css-tricks.com

A reference guide to CSS flexbox covering every property on the flex container and on its items, with diagrams, examples and browser-support notes.