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• My Django on the Med 2026 experience 🏖️
  2 projects | dev.to | 30 Sep 2026

  Luckily, folks were discussing possible sprint goals on Slack beforehand. That gave me the opportunity to express my interest in teaming up to work on some ORM topic, and others the opportunity to approach me and make suggestions on what I could work on or what team I could join. Jacob Walls kindly suggested that we could work together on the handling of nullable expressions in the ORM and pointed me to a proof of concept created by Simon Charette to provide some context. That gave me the possibility to look at the topic beforehand and to get a basic understanding: We were going to work on the issue that in some special cases, the ORM produces an INNER JOIN where an OUTER JOIN would be required, for queries with special null handling like Q(field__in=[1, None]). I already knew Jacob from code reviews, and it reassured me that I would be able to work with him.

• Node.js: el runtime que cambió cómo pensamos el backend
  4 projects | dev.to | 8 Jul 2026
• Node.js: the runtime that changed how we think about backend
  4 projects | dev.to | 8 Jul 2026

  Memory leaks are more frequent and harder to debug than in compiled languages. V8's garbage collector is good, but if you don't deeply understand the model of closures and circular references, you'll watch processes grow in memory without stopping until they explode in production at 3am. I'm speaking from personal experience. Also: if your team doesn't have solid experience with async programming, callback hell and the subtle bugs of async/await can produce code that's genuinely painful to maintain. In those cases, a more opinionated framework like Spring Boot or Django might be healthier in the long run.

• 3..2..1 Launch!: My journey from zero to Django Contributions
  2 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2026

  PR: Link This is very interesting bug. You can perform coalesce to receive not-null first value from given columns fetching. However, column's type are vary. Let imagine you coalesce Column A (string), Column B (JSON).

• How to Validate Environment Variables at Application Startup
  4 projects | dev.to | 5 May 2026

  For Django applications, this goes at the top of the settings module so it runs during framework initialization. If any variable is missing, the process exits before any application code loads. For Flask and FastAPI applications, the validation call belongs in the application factory before the app instance is created, so that any configuration-dependent setup fails with a clear message rather than a partially-initialized application.

• Djangonaut diaries, week 6: Charting the Unknown Unknowns of a PR
  1 project | dev.to | 9 Apr 2026

  This week's post is less technical, a reflection of the journey so far, while I celebrate my first PR merged and wait for two more to be reviewed.

• Djangonaut diaries, week 4: Eliminating a Redundant Index in Django's ORM
  2 projects | dev.to | 29 Mar 2026

  One interesting thing about this ticket, is that there was in fact a PR created addressing it, 8 years ago! A few years later, it was closed due to inactivity.

• Stop Paying Crypto Gateway Fees: Introducing Self-Hosted Solana Payments for Django Framework
  3 projects | dev.to | 29 Mar 2026

  I have built a library for the Django framework that simplifies the process of accepting crypto payments for your e-commerce (and other) applications.

• Djangonaut diaries, week 3 - Working on an ORM issue
  1 project | dev.to | 20 Mar 2026

  The PR from the previous week is currently being reviewed, with some great suggestions from one of the Django fellows, Jacob Walls.

• Djangonaut Diaries: Week 1 — Setting the Stage (and the machine)
  2 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2026

  Anyway, to send code back to Django as future Pull Requests, first I need to create a "fork" of Django, which is a copy of its repository at https://github.com/django/django. To create the fork I just had to click on the "Fork" button

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