Learnings

<p>This gist can greatly improve speed of tests that sends email in Django. </p>

<p>Using Django? Be careful with custom values for <code>&lt;meta name="referrer"&gt;</code>! Yes, a HTML tag can break Django CSRF protection: (PS: note old browsers might misbehave with new <code>&lt;meta name="referrer"&gt;</code> values too! Better avoid it.)</p>

<p>AWS IAM policy for allowing s3cmd to sync to an S3 bucket: </p>

<p>Avoid the overhead of having the default <code>&lt;select&gt;</code> in Django Admin with all the related instances (ForeignKey or ManyToMany) just listing them in <code>ModelAdmin.raw_id_fields</code>. I've just done it and my admin change pages are being loaded up to 10x faster, avoiding a lot of request timed out error.</p>

<p>Interesting post about GraphQL. It covers some interesting uses for it and downsides: "Do We Need GraphQL?" </p>

<p>Be careful with Python's New-Style String Format </p>

<p>Local Storage And How To Use It On Websites </p>

<p>Avoid catching ObjectDoesNotExist exception, when you know the model use Model.DoesNotExist.</p>

<p>Why using Rails instead of some shiny new JS stack? (Could apply to Django as well): </p>

<p>What really matters when it comes to improving yourself for geting a great job are the things you do AFTER college. Study on your own, read a lot, atend online courses and events, and do open source! </p>

<p>PyCicle finds circular imports in your project </p>

<p>Cool article on pythonic code review </p>

<p>The decorator is a nice and quick way to profiling memory usage in python functions </p>

<p>Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines: </p>

<p>JavaScript Promises explained in plain English in a funny way: </p>

<p>Use feature toggles ( so you can make smaller Pull Requests and constant releases</p>

<p>Crazy stuff can be done with Python operator overloading: </p>

<p>With Django's sitemaps framework, you can use <code>python manage.py ping_google[/sitemap.xml]</code> to let it know to reindex your site</p>

<p>Django comes with a built-in redirects app for fixing 404 with redirects stored in database: </p>

<p>When working with npm, create the habit of updating your environment with <code>npm update</code> (not <code>npm install</code>) regularly. The latter does not update already installed packages, the former follows semver from package.json.</p>

<p>Cache Me If You Can #.rk6zz3yit</p>

<p>about concerns we all should have when creating tech </p>

<p>The object-fit property lets you crop an inline image</p>

<p>You should use django proxy models with custom managers</p>