Making Websites

uv is a tool from Astral.sh that helps you manage Python tools and development projects. For all the details you can read the docs, but here’s a quick lesson in what it can do and how it can help Python developers in the daily grind of developing Python software. We’ll walk through managing a hypothetical Django project.

If you work on a large Django project, there’s a good chance that you would describe your settings file as “a mess” (or perhaps you use harsher language). You may even have broken your settings out into a whole package with multiple files to try and keep things organized. We’re highly skilled and organized developers, how does this happen to us?

I believe part of the problem is that the “settings” bucket holds three different kinds of things without differentiating between them. If you make a clear distinction between these things in your own mind (and in your code), dealing with settings will become easier, if not easy.

The Debian distribution of Linux includes the Apache web server, both the venerable version 1 and the more modern version 2. The Debian maintainers have a peculiar way of arranging the configuration files for Apache 2.0 which is not documented in the standard Apache documentation. This introduction should help you get acclimated to the Debian way of configuring Apache 2.0.