/2024

2024 Year in Review

Will kicked us off early, so time for a look back at the year.

Quoting mypy

Python is a highly dynamic language and has extensive metaprogramming capabilities. Many popular libraries use these to create APIs that may be more flexible and/or natural for humans, but are hard to express using static types. Extending the PEP 484 …

DSF initiatives I'd like to see

Nominations are open for the next Django Software Foundation Board of Directors.

The only green Python

Today I learnt. Some fresh Python releases, including Python 3.13rc2 — which is the OK, I better had add it to the flows point for me at the moment 🤹

Mentoring Maintainers

I’m going to try something new. For this upcoming quarter, so until the end of the year, I’m going to put aside Thursday afternoons (Europe) to be online, doing my maintenance, a kind of office hour, offering a support group …

How many nines?

Or do you really need high availability?

Introducing the Stack Report

I'm trying something new.

How to get your issue looked at quickly

Do the work. Add a test. Seriously.

What if you don’t use Homebrew?

I use a 2021 MacBook Pro. When I got it, I decided not to use a system package manager, specifically Homebrew, but I wasn’t in the market for MacPorts or anything else either.

New talk, Know Your Limits: On Surviving Open Source

Last week I was honoured to give a talk to the latest batch of Djangonauts.

Neapolitan 24.2 release

A quick flit publish and Neapolitan 24.2 is available on PyPI.

Software Developers

Software developers are a funny bunch.