Gather 'round, you magnificent adults!

Another beautiful week doing adult things.

I was a guest on the Sustain Open Source podcast. Listen to it here, and let's continue the conversation in the comment section. One of the things I love about the Open Source Festival by Open Source Community Africa is that we get to have candid conversations on the sustainability of open source from our own perspective. The conversations are so diverse because, one, there are different countries present on our beautiful continent (Africa), and two, there are people from other continents too. These conversations can spark unique initiatives and foster the formation of communities. You can read the Sustainable Community Report from 2023. Sadly, the conference is not going to be happening this year, but I bet the one happening next year is going to be extra special.

In other technical news, Adam wrote an article on keeping copy-pasted code in sync with the original. The article discussed using unit tests to detect when the pasted code has diverged from the original. The test fails if the pasted template or the original template changes.

System design this year should be a little better for you, dear reader, because this resource breaks down 50 system design questions according to difficulty, and you can start solving them while examining yourself. A cherry on top is that some of the questions have some solutions provided.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have your own repository landscape where you highlight your repositories with stars and a description? Tung has a resource just for that.

Kubernetes, my dear old friend. In the land of open source is the new sauce, here is an article detailing how to use the External Secret Operator to manage Kubernetes Secrets dynamically externally.

Django enthusiasts, here is a gem to help you setup production-ready setup for Django Settings. They will never catch you lacking!

PostgreSQL is a good choice for a database because it is powerful, open-source, and versatile. It can be extended to meet many needs, and TimescaleDB, a PostgreSQL extension, adds time-series capabilities. Additionally, it can be used for everything, reducing complexity and saving development time. Read more on PostgreSQL here.

ModelAdmin instances are created at import time and reused between requests in Django. This causes issues if the state is stored in instance variables. This article highlights how you can prevent state leakage between requests in Django.

Testing 1,2,3 Testing! If only software testing was just 1 to 3. Now, testing for Python code can include different libraries like Unittest or Pytest. This is a comprehensive approach to how to use Pytest to write unit tests for your code.

The word of the day is reuful. Reuful is a feeling of pain or sorrow. Example in a sentence: The scientist peered ruefully at the failed experiment, but remained determined to find a solution.

I'm making my grand departure into the unknown. Until the next issue, my treasured reader, go forth, and may the odds ever be in your favour!