til

My repo of Today I Learned posts. Inspired by simonw/til.

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Topics

• aws
• celery
• django
• django-rest-framework
• drf-yasg
• fast-ai
• git
• github
• google
• home-office
• htmx
• javascript
• kubernetes
• mac
• markdown
• meilisearch
• misc
• pytest
• python
• r
• slack
• wagtail

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aws

• AWS S3 and Boto3 Cheat Sheet - 2024-03-18

celery

• Scheduling a nightly Celery task with Celery Beat - 2024-05-08

django

• Adding a custom field to the Django admin list display - 2024-03-18
• Adding a custom tag with django-taggit - 2022-11-09
• Adding ability to search in the Django Admin - 2024-03-18
• Adding extra fields to the list view in the Django Admin - 2024-03-18
• Adding filtering functionality to the Django Admin - 2024-03-18
• Caching in Django Projects - 2023-04-19
• Finding out how many objects have N connections to the other model in a M2M relationship - 2024-02-28
• Finding the longest value of a particular field - 2024-02-28
• Handling 404 Responses in Django - 2023-04-19
• How I added a very simple django-streamfield example to a project - 2024-03-18
• How I set up django-activity-stream, including a simple test - 2024-03-25
• How to confirm that login is required in your Django view - 2023-02-22
• How to log in a test user in a pytest unit test - 2023-02-22
• How to test a file upload with pytest and SimpleUploadedFile - 2023-02-22
• Testing Django signals, and disabling signals in tests (Django 2.2) - 2020-07-27
• Using Coalesce to provide a default value for aggregate queries - 2021-02-18
• Using defer() to limit the data you get from your models - 2022-10-19
• Using django-countries - 2024-04-02
• Using Django Aggregation - 2021-01-22
• Using Enums in a Django Model ChoiceField (Django 2.2) - 2020-05-26
• Why won't my Django file URLs come back signed from S3? - 2021-01-08

django-rest-framework

• Adding a custom pagination class to an action - 2022-10-25
• Passing extra info in context to your DRF serializer - 2021-01-22

drf-yasg

• How to document your query parameters for drf_yasg - 2021-01-28
• How to properly serialize a serializer_method_field with drf_yasg - 2021-01-28
• How to serialize your request parameters for POST/PUT/PATCH requests - 2021-01-28

fast-ai

• Converting a fastcore.basics.AttrDict into a regular dictionary. - 2024-03-18

git

• Moving from an old repo to a new repo in another organization - 2024-05-13

github

• Commenting on an issue from a GitHub Action - 2022-11-04
• Creating a new file and committing it using a GitHub Action - 2022-11-04
• Github Action that leaves a comment on new PRs or issues - 2022-10-28
• How to use a Github Action - 2020-05-26
• Making one job in a workflow depend on another job - 2022-11-04
• Parsing JSON output from a GitHub Issue template in a GitHub Action - 2022-11-04
• Running an action conditionally - 2022-11-04
• Setting output for a step in a job, so a different job can use it - 2022-11-04
• Temporarily disabling a GitHub action without touching the workflow file - 2022-11-07

google

• Using Google Cloud Service Accounts and authenticating as a dictionary (without the json file) in a Django project - 2024-03-01

home-office

• Troubleshooting my Brother HL-2270DW Wireless Printer - 2024-03-18

htmx

• Making a simple hx-get request - 2024-05-16

javascript

• TimelineJS for building interactive timelines from spreadsheet or JSON - 2024-05-22

kubernetes

• Accessing a Kubernetes cluster for the first time - 2024-05-14
• Setting up Kubernetes access on MacOS with a config file - 2024-05-14

mac

• Control when your laptop locks, turns off the display, etc. - 2024-05-22

markdown

• Making a collapsible markdown section - 2022-11-05

meilisearch

• Securing Meilisearch with Docker for local Django development - 2024-04-04
• Securing the Meilisearch search itself - 2024-04-05
• Setting up Meilisearch with Python, Docker, and Compose for local development - 2024-04-04

misc

• Relume Design League - competitive web design - 2022-11-05

pytest

• Test that an exception is raised - 2023-03-02

python

• ChatGPT-4 distills the Python mailbox docs for me. - 2023-04-24
• Create a new Python virtual environment - 2022-10-14
• Generate a markdown file with a table of contents in Python - 2022-10-28
• How to sort a Python dictionary by key or value - 2021-02-02
• How to sort a Python dictionary by multiple values - 2021-02-02

r

• taylor: The Taylor Swift / R Project - 2023-04-21
• How to convert an .rda file to JSON - 2023-04-21

slack

• Keep Slack from kicking you out of huddles when your machine locks - 2024-05-22

wagtail

• Add Wagtail to an existing Django project - 2024-02-26
• Cheat Sheet for Wagtail StreamField - 2024-02-26
• Cheat Sheet: Wagtail Page Model Fields - 2024-02-26
• Choosing Between Wagtail Page Models and Django Models - 2024-02-26
• Create a Custom Nested Block for Wagtail StreamField - 2024-02-26
• Creating Custom StreamField Blocks - 2024-02-26
• Creating Wagtail pages with Streamfield content programmatically - 2024-05-15
• Example of linking Django models to Wagtail Page models - 2024-02-26
• Seeding my Wagtail site - 2024-03-27
• What to do if you delete the default Wagtail homepage - 2024-03-25