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Reflections on DjangoCon Europe 2025 in Dublin

Perhaps I am the last person to finally write up my reflections on DjangoCon Europe 2025! Despite being a DjangoCon US veteran since 2012, this was my first time at a Django event outside the US. ...

Filed under: Django/Wagtail

SEO Previews in Wagtail

Behind the scenes on many a Wagtail site is our open-source package, wagtail-seo . Today I'm pleased to announce a major new feature that will further help your editors refine their SEO editi...

Filed under: Django/Wagtail

When ruff & mypy collide

Today I was converting yet another repository from black and flake8 to ruff (which reminds me, I really need to write up a guide for that). I had the following line of python code which I wa...

Filed under: Developers Django/Wagtail

Why is the Django Admin “Ugly”?

Updated October 27, 2023 to include additional quotes and commentary. While talking with people at Djangocon US, one question kept coming up: “why is the Django admin so ‘ugly’?”. I’m paraphrasin...

Filed under: Developers Django/Wagtail Insight

Everything you never wanted to know about MySQL Charsets & Collations

In this guide I will attempt to explain character sets and collations in MySQL and MariaDB, how they cause problems, how to fix those problems, and how to fix your existing database. This is a long o...

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CodeRed Cloud Infrastructure Upgrades

To all CodeRed customers - we have some huge upgrades coming your way! Today I am pleased to announce major infrastructure upgrades to CodeRed Cloud. This is an exciting development that has been i...

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breakpoint(): A Simple Way to Debug Your Python Code

Imagine a typical work day as a developer. You write a function that's supposed to do something but either nothing happens or the wrong thing happens. Or, you are updating functions and BOOM! Nothing...

Filed under: Developers Django/Wagtail

Adding Placeholder Text to Wagtail Forms

Wagtail forms let the editor customize field types and titles, but not placeholder text. While you could write a custom template and hard-code the placeholder text, this quickly becomes a burden when...

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2022 will be an Exciting Year for Wagtail

Since being released 7 years ago, Wagtail is all grown up and has matured quite well. But this year, there is a swelling of energy and initiatives surrounding Wagtail that will eclipse anything we ha...

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Announcing New Free Tier and Enterprise Plans for CodeRed Cloud

It's been 2 years since we initially opened up the public release of CodeRed Cloud to early adopters and beta testers. A lot of amazing things have happened in those past two years, and I am truly ...

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