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Using LLMs as the first line of support in Open Source
Not alone, and for a long time now, I’ve been battling with making my open source contributions sustainable.
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First month on Django’s Steering Council
Just before Christmas, I was honoured to be elected to Django’s Steering Council for the upcoming 6.x cycle. With the holidays imminent, we didn’t kick off until the beginning of January, so we’ve been up and running for about a …
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Code of Conduct++
The Django Code of Conduct (CoC) has long been held up as a an exemplar. It’s been a direct influence on many similar efforts across numerous projects. It was an early, and strident, declaration of the values that we wish …
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2024 Year in Review
Will kicked us off early, so time for a look back at the year.
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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 …
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DSF initiatives I'd like to see
Nominations are open for the next Django Software Foundation Board of Directors.
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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 🤹
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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 …
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How many nines?
Or do you really need high availability?
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Introducing the Stack Report
I'm trying something new.