I'm a designer turned web developer with a disability: Multiple Sclerosis. Technology helped save my career and my livelihood, so I want to pass along the knowledge.
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Halloween always had an allure for me. It was cathartic in some ways, almost as if I could deal with my demons by watching the scary movies, indulging in massive sugar highs, and taking off my personal “mask” by donning actual masks. In a lot of ways, this Halloween will
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We, as a species, have been thrown into exceptionally dangerous circumstances with the new breed of AI. I’ve been waiting to write this particular email on this particular topic, because I found myself waffling between opinions and false understanding. I’ve been examining AI from philosophical, technical, political, and
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Let's set the scene: you are integrating a third-party form into your page or UI. The third-party integration isn't the most robust, but it does allow you to auto-fill parts of the form using URL parameters. So if you had a script that could change a
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...flexibility is life. So says my Sensei. 📫This article is from the CYBORG_ newsletter. Enjoy it for free! When we build systems and tools to help us solve problems, there is a pitfall, especially when you first start. The first version of the CMS I created at work was exceptionally
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...is how it has been wrongly assigned to very specific positions and executions. 📫This article is from the CYBORG_ newsletter. Enjoy it for free! "Whoa, did you draw that? I can't draw—even my stick figures are bad." —Everyone, ever As an artist, the worst part
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Template tags are the tags you see in this format {% some_tag %} which allow you to insert dynamic content, logic, or other functionality. The cool thing about Django is you can actually create your own tags when the built-in tags aren't enough. How to Create Your Own The
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Django comes with two methods for handling data or output across multiple templates: Template Tags and Context Processors. But why would you use one over the other? Let's take a look at their main strengths and some examples to help you make the choice. Custom Template Tags You
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Having a space at the beginning or the end of a string can be frustrating when formatting output. Even more so if the string came from user input and really shouldn't have spaces surrounding the information, like a name or an address. Here's how we can
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It's really helpful and fun to see how long a script took to run. It can inform you on how successful the script was in your productivity workflow, or you can use it to determine how effective your programming is, or figure out where the script breaks down
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When starting a new app, I recommend immediately creating a models folder and using that to hold files for each model. The advantage in doing this at the start is that your app is easier to maintain as it grows. It's a lot easier to find the model
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We can use the classic, {{ forloop.counter }} trick to output the number of the loop iteration (each time we go through the loop, it outputs that number), but it what if your designers want leading zeroes added to those numbers? Just to be clear these are numbers with leading zeroes: