PyCoder’s Weekly | Issue #728

#728 – MARCH 31, 2026 View in Browser » Django Apps With Alpine AJAX, Revisited The author has been modifying his approach to Django projects with Alpine AJAX over the last nine months. This post describes what he’s changed and how his process has improved. LOOPWERK Making Friendly Classes What’s a friendly class? One that accepts sensible arguments, has a nice string representation, and supports equality checks. Read on to learn how to write them. TREY HUNNER Right-Size Your Celery & RQ Workers CPU doesn’t tell you if tasks are piling up. Queue latency does. Autoscale your workers based on the metric that matters → JUDOSCALE sponsor Understanding CRUD Operations in SQL Learn how CRUD operations work in SQL by writing raw SQL queries with SQLite and using SQLAlchemy as an ORM in Python. REAL PYTHON course Starlette 1.0 Released MARCELOTRYLE.COM PyCon Austria April 19-20, Registrations Open PYCON.AT • Shared by Horst JENS PyOhio 2026 Call for Proposals Now Open! PR