While checking my logs for this site and seeing the usual malicious requests against every spammers favorite software WordPress I decided to make things a little harder for them with a [tarpit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)).

Daniele, the author of psycopg2, wrote an interesting post about Django and its migration system. Having used Django for well over a decade and having worked on projects either handed to me or greenfield at different scales I cannot agree with his arguments as they are stated. The migration and ORM system does solve a […]

News Django 3.1 Released 3.1 is live! You can read the release notes. Please take a moment to thank our two Django Fellows, @MariuszFelisiak and @carltongibson, who made this release possible. djangoproject.com Django REST Framework 3.11.1 Released github.com Upgrade to pip 20.2, plus, changes coming in 20.3 The newest version of pip, 20.2, is now […]

Here's the real-life case. On this blog, I have two models: Post and PostStats. The former is, as you might have guessed, for posts, while the latter is for per post statistics like a view count. Here's a simplified version of both models: class Post(models.Model … Read now

A lot of fog and mysteries surround Python virtual environments. There are loads of packages, tools, and wrappers trying to make developer's life with virtual environments easier. But if we look at the basics, we'll see that actually, creating a virtual environment in Python has never been easier. Starting from … Read now