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  1. 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.

  2. Winding Down, Getting Ready

    The week that was 2023 WK12

  3. 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.

  4. A 2023 Q1 status update

    Just a quick note.

  5. Stepping Down as Fellow

    Some new year’s news.

  6. My 2022 in Review

    The overall backdrop of 2022 was one of health issues. It’s been incessant, or so it feels.

  7. Towards Inbox Zero

    It came up in conversation with Will how we might quantify the effect of the Django Fellowship Program.

  8. Working locally with GitHub PRs

    Working on a PR on django/djangoproject.com, a question came up about how to rebase if the GitHub UI doesn't offer exactly what you want:

  9. Weeknotes 2022 WK 34

    Some time since the last post. Looking back at it, I don't have too much to add there. A pretty full-on start to the year, backed onto a couple of years building up the backlog during the pandemic.

  10. Weeknotes 2022 WK 1

    I ran out of steam at the end of last year. We moved house at the beginning of December. That was all good. But on top of all the rest of — glances at universe, again — 2020/21 I had …