Blog posts in category “Djangonaut Space”
Posts during my journey with Djangonaut Space, Oct-Dec 2026.
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Oct 25th, 2026Djangonaut Log 2: Leaving the atmosphere and first merged contributions
Second week of Djangonaut Space is over and it’s time to look at what happened and I’ll share some inside scoops into how the program works from the perspective of a Djangonaut. This week the pace really picked up and I got my first contributions merged in!
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Oct 24th, 2026Assumptions are sneaky
My number one tip for debugging is to leave your assumptions at door and always (in)validate them as early as possible. Last night, I failed to follow my own advice and went on a wild goose chase before realising my problem.
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Oct 23rd, 2026Debugging a flaky test — how I methodologically tamed an annoying bug
I spent a nice afternoon on Thursday to debug a seemingly flaky test. Following a methodology that doesn’t rely on assumptions or prior knowledge of the codebase, I managed to narrow down the culprit and work from there to create a fix.
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Oct 18th, 2026Djangonaut Log 1: Lift-off and first week in Djangonaut Space
My observations of the Django space during the lift-off and first week of Djangonaut Space.
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Oct 7th, 20263… 2… 1… becoming a Djangonaut
After admiring Djangonaut Space program from afar since I heard about it in 2023, I finally applied and got accepted in the fall 2026 cohort and I’m over the moon (get it, a space pun?).