Django.

Jan 31, 2023

Splitting strings with Postgres and Django

The Django docs give an example of querying an ArrayField with some really powerful lookups. But what if we inherited a project, and the prior developer didn’t know about this Postgres-specific field type? Let’s explore how we can still take advantage of the power of ArrayField.

Sep 6, 2022

Bulk update or create in Django 4.1

Django 4.1 quietly added a really powerful feature to the bulk_create queryset method that effectively turns it into bulk_update_or_create.

Sep 24, 2021

How to set dynamic values for Field choices’ human-readable names

In this post, I explain how to add dynamic data to the choices shown in a Django form dropdown.