A broken 404 template in Django can swallow your backtraces

Note I wrote this post as an exercise during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore . I recently migrated this website from Astro to Wagtail . The reason why I did it is a story for another day. In this post, I want to talk about a bug that took me far too long to figure out. In his (verifiably incorrect) post about making chai , Abhigyan linked to my own (verifiably correct) post on the topic . While linking to my post, he accidentally omitted the trailing slash from the URL. This shouldn't have been a proble