Bundling and minifying CSS and JavaScript in Django cuts requests and bytes for better Core Web Vitals. Here's the modern 2026 pipeline — Vite via dja...
Read article Aug 16, 2014
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MicroPyramid Blog
Articles that strengthen our current focus on AI systems, modernization, and product engineering, alongside the broader engineering archive.
Older posts still cover Django, Python, AWS, Salesforce, React, Flutter, and Svelte, but the clearest current signal is around the three service lanes below.
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RAG, knowledge workflows, search, and practical AI system design.
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Legacy cleanup, migration planning, Django rescue, and safer system change.
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Explore service pageA 2026 guide to responsive images in Django with sorl-thumbnail and Pillow: generate multiple sizes with the {% thumbnail %} tag, wire up srcset/sizes...
Read article Aug 8, 2014
A practical 2026 guide to adding GitLab single sign-on and GitLab REST API v4 access to a Django app: django-allauth for OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, register...
Read article Jul 18, 2014
A clear walkthrough of the Django Oscar 3.x checkout pipeline - from basket to place order - covering each view and mixin (CheckoutSessionMixin, Payme...
Read article Jul 5, 2014
Showing a circular (avatar) image in Android no longer means hand-rolling a BitmapShader view. Here is the modern 2026 playbook across both UI toolkit...
Read article Jul 2, 2014
Gulp.js still works in 2026 for minifying CSS and JavaScript and compiling SCSS or Less, but Vite and esbuild have largely replaced it for new project...
Read article Jun 12, 2014
A practical 2026 guide to running work in parallel on Linux: shell background jobs with & and wait, bounded concurrency, xargs -P vs GNU parallel, the...
Read article Jun 10, 2014
Django Girls is a volunteer-run non-profit that hosts free, beginner-friendly one-day Django and Python workshops worldwide, backed by a famous free o...
Read article May 23, 2014
MicroPyramid donated the open-source PeelJobs job portal to Chaitanya Jyothi Welfare Society to support rural employment. Here is how custom software ...
Read article May 11, 2014
jQuery 3.7.x is still maintained and runs on a huge share of the web, but modern JavaScript has absorbed most of what it was built for. Here is an hon...
Read article May 3, 2014
jQuery Mobile is deprecated and archived, so don't build new touch interactions on it. This guide explains the legacy tap, taphold, swipe and vmouse e...
Read article Mar 28, 2014
CasperJS once paired with PhantomJS to scrape and automate websites, but both are unmaintained. This guide shows the legacy approach for context, then...
Read article Mar 26, 2014