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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · 4d

Django: one ORM to rule all databases 💍 (by @paulox.net)
www.paulox.net/2025/10/06/d...

Django: one ORM to rule all databases 💍

Comparing the Django ORM support across official database backends, so you don’t have to learn it the hard way.

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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · 9d

Elegantly scale type and space without breakpoints
utopia.fyi

Utopia

Fluid responsive design

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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · 15d

A refresh of Learn CSS with nine new modules
web.dev/blog/learn-c...

A refresh of Learn CSS with nine new modules | Blog | web.dev

web.dev

Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · 24d

Django views versus the Zen of Python
www.loopwerk.io/articles/202...

Django views versus the Zen of Python

Django’s generic class-based views often clash with the Zen of Python. Here’s why the base View class feels more Pythonic.

www.loopwerk.io

Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · 29d

DoubleClickjacking: A New Era of UI Redressing
www.evil.blog/2024/12/doub...

Paulos Yibelo - Hacking Research: DoubleClickjacking: A New Era of UI Redressing

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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · Aug 7

We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles
tonsky.me/blog/lockfil... - by @tonsky.me

We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles

Lockfiles are an absolutely unnecessary concept that complicates things without a good reason. Dependency managers can and are working without it just the same.

tonsky.me

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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · Jul 31

Django: split "ModelAdmin.get_queryset()" by view
adamj.eu/tech/2025/07... - by @adamj.eu

Django: split ModelAdmin.get_queryset() by view - Adam Johnson

Within Django’s popular admin site, you can override ModelAdmin.get_queryset() to customize the queryset used by the admin views. It’s often used for performance optimizations, such as adding a select...

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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · Jul 13

From SQL to SQLModel: A Cleaner Way to Work with Databases in Python
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From SQL To SQLModel: A Cleaner Way To Work With Databases In Python - Pybites

SQLModel is a library that lets you interact with databases through Python code with Python objects and type annotations instead of writing direct SQL queries.

pybit.es

Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · Jun 19

JSON module scripts are now Baseline Newly available
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JSON module scripts are now Baseline Newly available | Blog | web.dev

Thanks to JSON module scripts and import attributes, you can now directly import JSON in JavaScript modules. Both features are now Baseline Newly available.

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Natalia @nessita.bsky.social · Jun 9

📣 The DSF is hiring a Django Fellow!

A paid, full-time role to help maintain Django. All the good stuff plus you'll be joining a dedicated team of Fellows 💚

Interested or know someone great?
👉 Apply by July 1: www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/...

#Django #Python #OpenSource

DSF calls for applicants for a Django Fellow

Posted by The Fellowship Working Group on June 9, 2025

www.djangoproject.com

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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · Jun 11

Disclosure: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android - localmess.github.io

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · Jun 9

GitHub Actions: avoid double runs from on: [push, pull_request] (by @adamj.eu)
adamj.eu/tech/2025/05...

GitHub Actions: avoid double runs from on: [push, pull_request] - Adam Johnson

I’ve often seen a GitHub Actions workflow defined with a trigger like:

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Ned Batchelder @nedbat.com · Nov 21

String formatting in #Python lets you left-, right-, or center-justify a value. You can specify the fill character to use. The syntax is colon, fill-char, <^>, width:

Demonstrating string formatting with right-, left-, and center-aligned text and custom fill characters. Full text at https://gist.github.com/nedbat/9a29a7e0f8091844d65f5ca433612e59

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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · Jun 5

An easy way to use different serializers for different actions and request methods in Django REST Framework
www.loopwerk.io/articles/202...

An easy way to use different serializers for different actions and request methods in Django REST Framework

Introducing ActionSerializerModelViewSet, a ViewSet that allows you to choose a serializer for each action and method combination.

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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · May 31

Knowledge creates technical debt
lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/k...

Knowledge creates technical debt

Some history on term “technical debt” and on better language to use when communicating about it.

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · May 12

For years, one of the most befuddling things for me in CSS was how “height: 100%” would sometimes just not work. Every time I tried to use it was a roll of the dice. 😅

Like everything else in CSS, though, it all makes perfect sense when we understand the underlying mechanism. ✨

Let’s explore. 🧵

The Height Enigma • Josh W. Comeau

One of the most perplexing and befuddling things in CSS for me, for many years, was the behaviour of percentage-based heights. Sometimes, seemingly at random, setting “height: 100%” would have no effe...

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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · May 12

⚙️ New CSS Generator!

Save this link for the future. A tool to easily convert any SVG shape into a CSS one in no time. Powered by the new shape() function! 🤩

css-generators.com/svg-to-css/

✅ Single-element
✅ Responsive
✅ No more ViewBox headaches

SVG to CSS Shape Converter

A simple tool to transform an SVG shape into a CSS shape. Get a modern and optimized code in no time!.

css-generators.com

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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · May 20

MCP: A Simple Guide To Going Further With AI
simple.ai/p/mcp-a-simp...

MCP: The Next Competitive Edge in AI

Unveiling MCP: The groundbreaking protocol transforming AI connectivity, empowering businesses with revolutionary agent interactions and unprecedented workflow capabilities.

simple.ai

Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · May 20

GitHub Copilot: Meet the new coding agent
github.blog/news-insight...

GitHub Copilot: Meet the new coding agent

GitHub Copilot has a new feature: a coding agent that can implement a task or issue, run in the background with GitHub Actions, and more.

github.blog

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Django @djangoproject.com · Apr 26

Announcing an experimental new process for proposing ideas and features to the Django project 🌈
www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...

New-features github repo and project

Posted by Emma Delescolle on April 26, 2025

www.djangoproject.com

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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · Apr 19

How to make your images in Markdown on GitHub adjust for dark mode and light mode - github.blog/developer-sk...

How to make your images in Markdown on GitHub adjust for dark mode and light mode

When you want your images to look good in Markdown on GitHub, you might have to adjust for the UI around them.

github.blog

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Una Kravets @una.im · Jan 10

New blog post:

Updates to the customizable select API

una.im/select-updates/

una.im | Updates to the customizable select API

Everything that has changed since the RFC post for this feature.

una.im

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Fabio Caccamo @fabiocaccamo.bsky.social · Apr 9

Django: what’s new in 5.2: adamj.eu/tech/2025/04... - Great recap by @adamj.eu

Django: what’s new in 5.2 - Adam Johnson

Django 5.2 was released last Wednesday, another exciting step forward for our favourite web framework. It comes with a composite of new features, contributed to by many, some of which I am happy to ha...

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Frank Wiles @fwiles.bsky.social · Apr 8

Overall excellent advice if you’re wanting to really standout in a development career. endler.dev/2025/best-p...

The Best Programmers I Know

I have met a lot of developers in my life. Late…

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Will Vincent @wsvincent.bsky.social · Apr 3

Did you all read @carltongibson.bsky.social latest post on "If I were starting out now..."? You should. It's full of great advice for anyone starting out a career in technology.

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If I were starting out now…

Welcome to the second post in a subscriber-only series on finding your market, and niche, in the software. In case you missed it, part one was a high-level...

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