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Count(column) vs Count(*)
September 24, 2025
#005 — September 24, 2025 Two weeks ago, I attended DjangoCon US 2025, and it was a very good experience. I met Justin Duke, the creator of Buttondown, which...
ELT with dbt and Airflow
August 27, 2025
#004 — AUGUST 27, 2025 This week, I continue to explore database topics and added two new tools to my data engineering toolkit: dbt and Airflow. For the next...
Predicate, NOT IN, and Casting Text To Bool (Again)
August 20, 2025
#003 — AUGUST 20, 2025 Django Contributions Weekly - Y25 W33 - Aug 11 - 17 Overview There were a total of 30 modified tickets last week. By the end of the...
Custom ticket fields, casting to boolean, and numbers module
August 13, 2025
This week, I learned a few new things about Python, Trac, and SQL as I continue iterating on the contributions data in Trac. Django Contributions Weekly -...
Introducing Django Contributions Weekly
July 30, 2025
This week we introduce Django Contributions Weekly, a new weekly report inspired by the "Updates to Django" section of Django News. In addition, there are...
New Beginnings, Learning And Doing
July 23, 2025
This week, my goal is to build a chat based application using search vector and RAG. If you’re new to AI and LLMs, check out Vector Search RAG Tutorial from...