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Longer essays in The Stack Report, a monthly newsletter. The latest news, talks and releases on the blog, which has an RSS feed.
01 The Stack Report
Longer essays: approximately monthly.
Approximately monthly, a longer-form piece on application development, operations, and the process (and business) of making software.
Latest issues
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Towards Async Transactions in Django
async with transaction.atomic() is coming to Django, hopefully for 6.2. How we got there at Django on the Med 🏖️, and what the rules will be.
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Deploy your fork
Only half-joking on mastodon the other day:
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It's OK. Do Your Thing.
Some (reluctant) thought on our AI moment
02 The blog
What I've been working on, talks, releases, and the occasional opinion.
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Unblocking async atomic: asgiref next
Today's Stack Report, Towards Async Transactions in Django, relates the story of the async with transaction.atomic() work at Django on the Med 🏖️. It's also about how the feature should behave, and our aim to get it ready for Django …
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On Practice
My Tai Chi classes began again (after the summer break) last night.
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Back from Django on the Med 🏖️
This week’s theme was very much Back from Django on the Med 🏖️.
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Django on the Med 2: Pescara 🏖️
This week is the second edition of Django on the Med 🏖️ in Pescara Italy. Development sprints: three days to get together and work on Django.
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Next Stop Pescara!
It’s been a busy first half of the year: Security work on Daphne and asgiref; updates to Neapolitan and django-mantle; talks at PyTV, DjangoCon Europe, and PyCon Italia; the Annual Release Cycle DEP for Django drafted, discussed and made ready; …
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Running from Django’s main development branch in production
There’s a feature you’re keen on in Django’s main development branch — as we write, the Database-level delete options for ForeignKey.on_delete from the upcoming Django 6.1, for example.
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Planning My (Django) Retirement (Again)
When I stepped down as Django Fellow, I joked that I was retiring. I wasn’t really going anywhere. I still maintain a whole load of packages, and I remained on the Security Team, but I was stepping away from working …
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Finding (implicitly) inherited HTMX attributes
This week, Carson Gross announced that there’s going to be a new v4 of HTMX.
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Round up for July '25
My slow burner target for the summer was to get back on top of the async backlog.
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Learning French with Duolingo
I recently subscribed to Le Monde Diplomatique, a French-language, monthly newspaper. I have to say it's wonderful. I'm currently reading an article on The true meaning of "fake news":