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Hi there! My name is Vitor Freitas. I’m a Software Engineer from Brazil.

I work at Eskolare as a Software Engineer and I am currently pursuing a Ph.D in Information Processing Science at the University of Oulu on the M3S Research Unit. On my free time, I like to write about Python and Django on Simple is Better Than Complex.

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Simple is Better Than Complex

What You Should Know About The Django User Model July 8, 2021
The goal of this article is to discuss the caveats of the default Django user model implementation and also to give you some advice on how to address them. It is important to know the limitations of the current implementation so to avoid the most common pitfalls. Something to keep in mind is that the […]
How to Start a Production-Ready Django Project June 27, 2021
In this tutorial I’m going to show you how I usually start and organize a new Django project nowadays. I’ve tried many different configurations and ways to organize the project, but for the past 4 years or so this has been consistently my go-to setup. Please note that this is not intended to be a […]
How to Use Chart.js with Django January 19, 2020
Chart.js is a cool open source JavaScript library that helps you render HTML5 charts. It is responsive and counts with 8 different chart types. In this tutorial we are going to explore a little bit of how to make Django talk with Chart.js and render some simple charts based on data extracted from our models. […]
How to Save Extra Data to a Django REST Framework Serializer April 7, 2019
In this tutorial you are going to learn how to pass extra data to your serializer, before saving it to the database. Introduction Example Using APIView Example Using ViewSet Introduction When using regular Django forms, there is this common pattern where we save the form with commit=False and then pass some extra data to the […]
How to Use Date Picker with Django January 3, 2019
In this tutorial we are going to explore three date/datetime pickers options that you can easily use in a Django project. We are going to explore how to do it manually first, then how to set up a custom widget and finally how to use a third-party Django app with support to datetime pickers. Introduction […]