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<p>On a Django test, get the HTML content of an e-mail with <code>content, mimetype = mail.outbox[0].alternatives[0]</code></p>

<p>List of Python API Wrappers </p>

<p>Use Hashids to generate short obfuscated strings from IDs. Useful for URL shorteners and human friendly IDs: </p>

<p>Audit web apps performance with Google Lighthouse </p>

<p>Use <code>jest --runInBand</code> for faster builds and to avoid out of memory errors in [CircleCI](</p>

<p>While developing, do <code>python manage.py --keepdb</code> to speed up your Django tests. This prevents the overhead of creating and destroying a new test DB</p>

<p>Use this lib to estimate password strength in Python: </p>

<p>Great way to learn Flexbox: </p>

<p>Functional pattern matching in Python </p>

<p>Python functional resources </p>

<p>Check whether all items match a condition in Python: [</p>

<p>On Django, access form error codes in the template use the <code>as_data</code> attribute like this: <code>{% for error in form.errors.as_data %}{% endfor %}</code> </p>

<p>Google Analytics is based on goals, but goals are too generic for e-commerces. You can go on settings and set a specific flow with conversions and dropouts for each step of your funnel.</p>

<p>Use <code>subTest</code> in Python unittest when asserting inside loop: <a href="#.425k66c9b">#.425k66c9b</a></p>

<p>Great blog post on Python pdb: <a href="#.xogl073gi">#.xogl073gi</a></p>

<p>VERY GOOD article to better understand Javascript inheritance: </p>

<p>You can pass a <code>update_fields</code> param to the model <code>save</code> method. One interesting use for this is to avoid updating dates in time stamped models.</p> <p><code>product.name = 'Name changed again' product.save(update_fields=['name'])</code></p> <p><a href="#specifying-which-fields-to-save">#specifying-which-fields-to-save</a></p>

<p>Yet another Webpack/Gulp/Grunt: </p>

<p>Python 3.6 is out! - [Jet Brains post on the new features]( - [Official changelog](</p>

<p>The Simpsons in CSS [</p>

<p>Django-solo helps working with singletons: </p>