Development Cached Templates - Building SaaS with Python and Django #150

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In this episode, I ran through a Python exercise on Exercism that focused on strings. Then we moved onto the homeschool app and fixed an issue with templates that were cached during development because of changes in Django 4.1.

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Exercism and PDF Page Numbering - Building SaaS with Python and Django #149

In this episode, we started to work on Python learning problems on Exercism. Then I added page numbers to PDFs on my homeschool app.

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