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Take a look back at 2024 with HackSoft! From team growth and milestones to community contributions, partnerships, and achievements, this year was packed with amazing memories. ✨

As a solutions company we use open source tools, languages and frameworks every day. It is an integral part of what we do and how we do it. That’s why we are set to support open source maintainers, contribute & create open source of our own.

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. Meet Deian Ivanov - a QA Engineer with an interesting story and diverse hobbies.

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. Let's introduce you to Dessy - one of our incredible and experienced QA engineers.

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. This month, we would like to introduce you to Dimitar Todorov - a backend software engineer at HackSoft.

As the year comes to an end, we're excited to share our 2023 Year in Review, packed with achievements, growth, and unforgettable moments. Despite the challenges, we can say that 2023 was a good year for HackSoft! ✨

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. Let us introduce you to Stefka - one of our incredible QA engineers.

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. This month, we would like to introduce you to Pavel - one of our backend developers.

We introduced HackCast back in 2018. After a bit of a pause after the end of the first season - HackCast is now back, with a plan to stay!

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. We would like to introduce you to Miro - one of our Python and Django developers.

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. Meet Tanya - one of our latest additions to the team.

The Django admin is a powerful tool for managing our web applications. In this article, we will show how to add additional layer of security, by enforcing two-factor authentication (2FA) for all users, logging in to the Django admin.

In this article, we show 2 ways of adding Google login to your existing Django & Django Rest Framework project, without relying on big 3rd party apps.

In this article, we explore how to leverage the new set of LLM & AI tools, in order to ask questions over Django's documentation.

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. We would like to introduce you to Yana Matviychuk - the newest addition to the Marketing team.

In February, HackSoft celebrates its 9th Birthday. In honor of that, we are organizing a special Giveaway.

In this article we explore the behavior of auto_now, auto_now_add and default, in the context of the usual created_at and updated_at timestamps, that we add to our Django models.

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. We would like to introduce you to Stilian Nikolaev - our youngest team member yet.

As 2022 is coming to its end, it is time to sit down and reflect on the past year. With all the craziness going on, we thought it would be a good idea to appreciate all our achievements, big or small, and just be grateful for everything that happened. It turns out, 2022 was a great year for us.

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. We would love to introduce you to our newest team member Iveta Petrova.

HackSoft is attending OpenFest 2022 as sponsors, with our own booth for the first time. Come and meet the team on the 15th and 16th of October at Sofia Tech Park.

Updating a QuerySet using an F expression is a common and very useful Django pattern. In this article, we explore how to bring this pattern to a JSONField.

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. We would love to introduce you to Ruzha Bobotanova. She is one of the newest HackSoft team members who joined us in 2021.

All of our projects have external dependencies. It's a good idea to keep them up-to-date. In this article, we'll show how we do it, using dependabot and GitHub Actions.

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. We would love to introduce you to Pavel Iliev.

File upload tend to show up as a feature in most web apps. In this article, we explore how to handle direct to S3 uploads with Django, where the actual file upload bypasses the Django backend.

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. We would love to introduce you to Lina Savova. She is one of the newest HackSoft team members who joined us in 2021.

At HackSoft, we share ideas, knowledge and insights from our work. In this article, you'll learn the practices and traditions that help us keep our expertise sharp.

Today is a special day, because we are celebrating our 8th birthday🎂 We play with an infinite mindset & we are here to stay. Cheers to many more years and success!

For clients, software development might look like a very exotic ritual. That's why, we want to shine a light on the entire process & explain what's happening.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. We would love to tell you more about it. Starting with Krasimira Angelova!

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. We would love to introduce you to Kamen Hristov.

Have you ever heard of a team that feels like a second family? HackSoft is a company created by such a team. In the following article, we explain how and why we contribute to making it so.

Behind any successful company stands a motivated team. We would love to introduce you to Anton Nyagolov. He is one of the newest HackSoft team members who joined us in 2021.

Working with dates, times, timezones and daylight saving times is never straightforward. In this article we explore how to account for all of that, using Python.

The Django Styleguide is core to how we develop software, using Python and Django. Now, it's time to reach outside of HackSoft and see how other people are using the Django Styleguide. That's why we are conducting the Django Styleguide Survey.

In this article, we do a deep-dive into Python's faker and Django's factory_boy, to show advanced usages that can improve the quality of your tests.

In our work as web app developers we want to present the users with appealing loading screens while we are fetching data. In this article we'll be implementing a simple version of the "skeleton-screen" approach.

The iframe tag is used quite often around the web. Getting it to look good across multiple resolutions, however, might be a tricky task.

An overview of the process of building the streaming platform for HackConf 2021.

In this article, we are taking a look under the hood of Django's ORM internals, namely, Iterables.

Fixing a possible issue you can hit while migrating from Material UI v4 to v5 if you are not careful

Dealing with implicit SQL INNER JOINs when querying related fields with the Django ORM.

Submitting an app to TestFlight usually takes some unexpected time because of the approval process. In this post, I'll walk you through the struggles we had due to a third-party sign-in.

In HackSoft, we evaluate how a project is going by observing if the team is in “rhythm”. In this post, we go into depth about that.

See how to implement an end-to-end server-side Google OAuth2 flow with Django REST framework & React.

See how to implement an end-to-end client-side Google OAuth2 flow with Django REST framework & React.

In some cases, we can hit a CORS error when we load images with crossOrigin="Anonymous". It usually happens in Chromium, Chrome or Edge.

Announcing our new website. Headless ghost and Next.js. Blazing fast thanks to Incremental Static Regeneration and CDN from Vercel.

A quick & dirty approach for passing data from Django to JavaScript, without using AJAX.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. We would love to introduce you to Teodora Georgieva.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. We would love to introduce to you Pavlin Gergov.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. This week we would like to introduce you to Antonia Yordanova.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. This week we would like to introduce you to Slavyana Monkova.

Multiple font files for a single font can lead to a messy css if you don't know how to use them as a single font-family definition using @font-face.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. We would love to introduce you to Alexandra Yovkova.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. We would love to introduce you to Peter Yotsov.

Optimize build time for a Django project running on GitHub Actions. A couple steps for faster tests and smoother workflow.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. We would love to introduce you to Vasil Slavov.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. This week we would like to introduce you to Kaloyan Gerginov.

For the first time, HackSoft has provided an opportunity for 11th-grade students at Technological School "Electronic Systems" (ELSYS, a.k.a. TUES) to experience a real working environment.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. This week we would like to introduce you to Bogomila Peneva.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. We would love to introduce you to Alexander Nadjarian.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. This week we would like to introduce you to Martin Angelov.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. This week we would like to introduce you to Ivaylo Donchev.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. This week we would like to introduce you to Daniel Goshev.

Behind any successful company, stands a motivated team. This week we would like to introduce you to Ventislav Tashev.

In this article, we are exploring the behavior of Django ORM when it comes to filter chaining & reverse foreign key relations.

In this blog post, we will be focusing on building GraphQL queries with Python. I will guide you through the steps for building a complete GraphQL query, along with pagination and filtering (using Relay mechanisms).

In this article, we go step by step setting up Django & Postgres on GitHub Actions.

If we have a Django application and we are ready to release it to PyPI for others to use. But we need to make sure our manual tests are actually translated into automatic ones.

We created a small Django package that introduces an EnumChoiceField – a layer on top of CharField + choices, that uses Python’s enums.

How to set up prerender.io on Heroku to boost the SEO for your Single Page Application (SPA). A good server-side rendering alternative.

Nine people from the HackSoft team went to ReactNext – an annual React conference in Tel Aviv. The conference focuses on React and React Native which aligns perfectly with the tech stack we use in most of our projects.

As a non-technical founder, it can be challenging to get your product idea built & shipped to the end users. In this article, we explore different options & explain the software development process in details.

We love going to DjangoCon.This year was our second time. This was our second DjangoCon in a row. In this article, we share the talks that made us big impression!

We went to London for a week, to help the startups from the last PiLabs cohort with dev consulting. We talked about software & product with the main goal – add value & don’t waste their time. Read more about our journey and observations from the visit.

Renaming a key model in a huge Django application can be trickier than it seems. Tons of data migrations and halted feature development seem unavoidable. In this blog post, we share our alternative approach, avoiding most of the pain.

So far, 2018 was the best year for HackSoft.

This article is going to be short in words, but plentiful in pictures. We did the so-called “corporate photoshoot”, thanks to Aleksander Kostov, and it turned out to be good. Say hi to the faces of HackSoft.

We decided to have an outlet, where we can talk about the everyday things that are happening at HackSoft, and share our point of view about the process of software development. This outlet is HackCast.

HackSoft team was well represented during EuroPython 2018 in Edinburgh. Radoslav Georgiev, Martin Angelov, Ivaylo Donchev & Pavlin Gergov went to Edinburgh for the conference days of EuroPython and all gave a talk on different Python & Django-related topics.

In this article, we explore how to create the entire infinite set of Natural numbers using only objects and the Scala programming language.

In this article, we explore how to deal with the casing mismatch between the JavaScript world (using camel case) and the Python / Django world (using snake case) using neat mixins, in combination with Django and Django Rest Framework.

We’re going to talk about underscores, dunders, encapsulation, and magic methods in Python.

In this article, we’ll explore how to split your Webpack configuration to have different settings for local development & for production deploys.

In this article we go step by step in setting up a webpack configuration, starting from an empty directory.

In this article, we’ll explore how to setup automatic prettier check on your continuous integration server, so that everyone on your team will follow the same frontend styling.

In this article, we show how to up your Django testing game, by using fakes & factories.

In this article we explore the python mocking library & how this can help us write better unit tests.

Almost every Web application needs to use some third-party software. The problem we usually have to deal with is that third-party apps, like every other app, can return an error. The following article is going to show you how to handle those problems in a nice and neat way in Django with Celery.

In this article, we are exploring how to cookie-cut a ready-to-deploy Django project, with Ansible, in 5 minutes.

Jump, a faster way to navigate in your files & folders - a fuzzy matching autojumper.

In this post we are exploring how to integrate Google Analytics in a Django project in a configurable way, so we don't track page views & clicks while developing locally.

In this article, we are exploring how to serve MkDocs via Django & password-protect it so only logged-in users can access the documentation.