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<p>You can get a user's public Instagram feed in JSON format using: </p>

<p>Use <code>django.contrib.syndication.views</code> for generating RSS feeds: </p>

<p>Before using <code>itertools.groupby(data, keyfunc)</code> remember to sort the <code>data</code> with the same keyfunc.</p>

<p>In Celery configuration use:</p> <p><code>app.autodiscover_tasks(lambda: [n.name for n in apps.get_app_configs()])</code></p> <p>instead of:</p> <p><code>app.autodiscover_tasks(lambda: settings.INSTALLED_APPS)</code></p> <p><code>autodiscover_tasks()</code> will not understand if you declare in <code>INSTALLED_APPS</code> some app through django <code>AppConfig</code>. (Ex: <code>INSTALLED_APPS += ['users.apps.UsersConfig', ]</code>)</p>

<p>Write Fast Apps Using Async Python 3.6 and Redis: </p>

<p>Postgres full-text search is Good Enough! </p>

<p>You can pass a queryset to prefetch_related (and select_related): <code>Restaurant.objects.prefetch_related(Prefetch('pizzas__toppings'))</code> #django.db.models.Prefetch</p>

<p>In a <code>admin.ModelAdmin</code>, a field can either be in <code>prepopulated_fields</code> or <code>readonly_fields</code>, but not in both.</p>

<p>In <code>admin.ModelAdmin</code>, a field can either be in <code>prepopulated_fields</code> or <code>readonly_fields</code>, but not in both.</p>

<p>For tests use <code>assertCountEqual</code>, using two sequences it tests if the first contains the same elements as second, regardless of their order.</p>

<p>Understanding CSS Viewport Units! </p>

<p>One of the best articles I’ve ever read about Software Over-Engineering: </p>

<p>Could you describe in simple terms what <code>display: block</code> actually does? </p>

<p>Writing Digital Copy for Domain Experts: </p>

<p>Modal &amp; Nonmodal dialogs checklist: </p>

<p>If you need to execute more complex queries with OR statements you can use Q objects: #complex-lookups-with-q-objects</p>

<p>Awesome! Curated list of lists of falsehoods programmers believe in: </p>

<p>You can set a default ordering for a object by setting <code>ordering = ['field_name']</code> as a metadata option</p>

<p>Creating One Browser Extension For All Browsers </p>

<p>Use to truncate a string in django templates</p>

<p>How to replace Bootstrap Layouts with CSS Grid </p>

<p>From CSS Preprocessors to Styled Components </p>

<p>Tiny, efficient, Javascript library to detect links, URLs or Emails in text and convert them to clickable HTML links </p>

<p>Wow! Just discovered the - still experimental - CSS variables: </p>