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.
Django
Often you'll end up with several test cases in just one app. Instead of putting all of your tests into one large tests.py file, we can separate them into multiple files within a tests folder. Whether your app continues to grow, requiring more tests, or you just
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You want the current day or year? Sometimes dates and times are tough—to format, to work with, to get. Let's make this as easy as possible. Using datetime The datetime module is my go-to Python library for working with dates and times. To get the day, month,
Productivity
This is just one of many ways to start improving your work and reducing cognitive load, but it's one I've really stuck to and am starting to see huge returns for building systems and processes (rather than having them given to me).
Design System
Working from our basic Sass color theme mixin, we'll explore how to create a more powerful and flexible theming system using Sass. The secret: nested maps in Sass. This technique will allow us to set multiple values for various color combinations, helping us to create robust and customizable
Design System
We have a website design with sections that we want to style differently based on color themes. Styling these themes in the CSS can be tedious and frustrating, especially when we need to override default styles like text color. Instead of bloating our CSS with micro-differences and constant manual repetition,
Regex of the Day
Content is random, so there's not a great way to create an excerpt by character counts if you don't want words to get sliced up awkwardly in th... ...the middle ;) Here's a better way.
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You've seen it on lots of websites (including this one!): a little bit of text below a headline telling you the article will take X amount of time to read. How is this done, and how can you add this to your site? The Formula It can be
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In English and other languages based on an alphabet, casing is used to describe the style of text for when upper and lowercase letters should be used. Sometimes these styles are easy to identify and use; some are more complex than they appear at first. Here's a breakdown
Accessibility
It's a HUGE mistake to choose an H3 just because it has the correct style. Using tags to style the page may be hurting your accessibility and SEO all at once. Here's how to fix.
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I found a bug I was really worried I couldn't fix. I had made a feature on a site in which cards could be flipped over to reveal more information when you click on them. It was working great until someone tried it on their iPhone, and it
Django
The foreign key (or many-to-many) gives you a way to access/connect another model. related_name is how you can access the reverse relation: from that other model back to the one you've added the field to. If related_name is not set, the default is the model
Django
This error typically relates to trying to add a field to your search_fields, but the field is not actually text—perhaps it’s a ManyToManyField or a ForeignKey. Given the following, we want to be able to search our tags when we're in the Blog List View