/2023

The longest year

2023 in review.

Announcing django-template-partials v23.3

I’ve just released the new version v23.3 of django-template-partials. 🎁

Introducing django-unique-user-email

I just published the first version of a new package, django-unique-user-email.

Back to School...

It's been a pretty tough year. As I've written about before, my son has had a long running illness, that has affected him for about 18 months now.

Some musings on classes

I don’t know about you, but I write Terrible Code™, a lot.

The Single Folder Django Project Layout

I added a quick note on how I start a Django project, a Single Folder layout.

A Quiet Summer 🏝️

I’m not doing much this summer. I had various plans. More or less, they’re on hold. I’m pottering in the background as ever, but nothing public to show currently.

Yak-shaving to Where the Puck is Going to Be.

My talk from DjangoCon Europe 2023.

Weeknotes

The week that was 2023 WK18

Incremental Progress

The week that was 2023 WK17

The first retirement project

The week that was 2023 WK16.

Django's upcoming steering council elections

The Django 5.x Steering Council Candidate Registration is now open.

LLMs and the business of “Truth”

Theodorus claims that we are alike. But if we each had a lyre, and he said that they were similarly tuned, would we just take his word for it, or would we first see whether his statement was backed by …

Freedom to assert

Just a quickie…

And I’m done!

The week that was 2023 WK13.

A Chat about the Future of Django

Yesterday we had DSF President, Chaim Kirby, join us for Django Chat. Due to our super-speedy production team (Will) that's out today.

Winding Down, Getting Ready

The week that was 2023 WK12

More Batteries Please

I was rueing the lack of an HTTP parser in the Python stdlib, under the hashtag #MoreBatteries. Brett Cannon asked why I thought that belonged.

A 2023 Q1 status update

Just a quick note.