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"This project helped me rediscover the purest joy of coding: using the technology I possess to solve a real problem for the people around me, making everyone's life a little easier and a little happier.” happytoyscout.com/en/reports/h... #godzilla

Instead of To Live and Die in LA, I watched Hell Comes to Frogtown, and I might have made a terrible mistake?

Released 0.27.0 of dj-angles, a library to transpile #HTML into regular #Django templates. - django-compressor integration - dj-value attribute to render Django variables as an element’s inner content 📖 dj-angles-adamghill.com

Announcing the Search for a DSF Executive Director | Weblog | Django The DSF is starting the search for its first paid Executive Director to handle day-to-day operations, fundraising, partner relationships, and grant management. Six Django agencies... www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026...

[Projects] adamghill/dj-lite-tenant dj-lite-tenant routes each authenticated user to their own SQLite database for selected apps and models, driven by middleware plus a database router. It also... github.com/adamghill/d...

On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about the PyCon Packaging Summit, lazy imports, exceptions, and more. With content from: @dangoodin.bsky.social @trey.io @gjbernat.bsky.social @mathspp.com @microsoft.com @adamghill.com and others not on the 🦋

What AI is doing to the jobs of programmers feels very familiar to a lot of us frontend developers – because it has happened to us before.

Even though I've made this joke myself I actually really hate the "all developers have to be engineering managers now with agents" No, they all need to be tech leads, not ems. Unless you're having to deal with the agents' interpersonal issues and the PM distracting them and getting them promoted and

For anyone else who feels conflicted about AI and afraid to talk about it: I wrote this for you. Obviously these are just my opinions, but I hope this helps at least one person. annies-brain.offprint.app/a/3ml6zdf5f5...

nuance is good actually. I want nuance injected in my veins. embrace complexity and caveats. just say maybe.

If you have suddenly unlocked a superpower that allows everyone you employ to be 2x (4x, 10x, whatever) more efficient and your response is to lay off a bunch of people instead of *doing more stuff*, why do you even run a company?

Alien 3 definitely failing Bechdel test huh

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Software development in the age of Claude Code

We heard you like waiting for build steps so we made waiting for build steps the entire thing engineers do now

Should you burn it all down? I made you a handy infographic to help you decide!

This is yet another reminder that using AI doesn't make the product better, when you don't have a team that is customer-obsessed / product obsessed. And a team that is customer/product-obsessed without AI (or very little AI) will still run laps around one with AI...

I wrote a blog post about some of the options for adding type checking to your Django project! Historically, Django projects have been tough to type-check, but the future feels bright, especially if PEP 827 gets accepted! blog.pecar.me/typing-your...

And of course you can build great software without LLMs. If your preferred workflow is to type the code I think there’s nothing wrong with that at all. The “you’re being left behind” narrative is ridiculous. Use the tools if they help you, don’t if they don’t. Everyone needs to grow up, man.

I couldn't find a native MacOS SQLite browser that I really liked using, so... I made my own. 😅 Very heavily inspired by Postico, SQLiteo is pure Swift, as fast as possible, and intuitive to use. 📦 github.com/adamghill/sq... 🛠️ github.com/adamghill/sq...

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[Projects] adamghill/dj-toml-settings Load Django settings from a TOML file. #djangonews github.com/adamghill/d...

Some new preliminary numbers from Ken Jin for the JIT in Python 3.15: "On AArch64 macOS, the JIT has a 7-8% speedup over the tail calling interpreter with all optimizations enabled." docs.python.org/3.15/whatsne... See also doesjitgobrrr.com #Python #Python315 #JIT #CPython

Guillermo del Toro gets it. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

0.6.1 of django-new has been released. 🚀 - Lots of UI tweaks. - `--data` flag. - Generate `summary.html` for a user-friendly explanation. - BETA: `--install` to install packages. 🛠️ github.com/adamghill/django-new 📦 pypi.org/project/django-new/

Django 6.0 released ✨ a mosaic of modern tools and thoughtful design 🎨🧩🛠️💡#Django -- www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...

Featuring, my personal highlight of course, `django.tasks`! theorangeone.net/posts/django...

Been thinking about this since it was shared with me yesterday, especially about how oppressively most organizations pressure managers (even senior ones) to stay in that persona rather than actually leading www.leadingsapiens.com/ics-managers...

0.4.0 of django-new is released. 🚀 Now with interactive mode! ✨ `uvx django-new` steps through prompts to create a Django application. It also shows the tree structure of what was created. Both thanks to `rich` by @willmcgugan.bsky.social. 🛠️ github.com/adamghill/dj... 📦 pypi.org/project/djan...

oh it’s “hoarding” now if you don’t update your expensive electronics every year

Just made my #Django homepage redesign repo public in case it's useful inspiration. 🏠 django-homepage.adamghill.com 🛠️ github.com/adamghill/dj... 📖 docs.google.com/document/d/1... Also posted on the Django forum: forum.djangoproject.com/t/want-to-wo...

@universalorl.bsky.social @universalstudiosfl.bsky.social Check out this actual stained glass panel based on the piece in the Tribute store above the registers at HHN 34 in Orlando. 😍 There are over 800 pieces of glass and 15 different colors and it took 2.5 weeks of working around 2-8 hours/day!

My wife creates a lot of #stainedglass projects that are a little outside the norm. 👻 Here is one she made before #Halloween to pay homage to Stanley Kubrick's classic #film, The Shining. 🤩 glass-o-lantern.com/the-shining/ 🎃 www.instagram.com/glass_o_lant... #cinema #letterboxd #horror #art

Here is my lightning talk ⚡️ at #DjangoConUS about using #SQLite with #Django in production with github.com/adamghill/dj.... 💡 youtu.be/gWEwPy9mjqQ?... For more conference talks from DjangoCon US 2025, head to djangotv.com/videos/djang...! 📺

websites in 2025

Our 2026 DSF Board Candidates ⭐️ www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...

The Steering Council has accepted PEP 810 (explicit lazy imports) for Python 3.15! discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex... #Python #PEP810 #LazyImports #lazy #Python315

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

The core․py podcast is back with a new episode! Actually, it’s only half an episode, and yet it’s the longest one so far. We interviewed attendees sprinting on CPython at Arm Inc. Topics include: #Python 3.14 and 3.15, the future of free threading, and pizza. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

New package alert: dj-spinners 🚨 Pure SVG loading spinners for #Django. ``` {% load dj_spinners %} {% spinner '90-ring' %} ``` 🛠️ github.com/adamghill/dj... 📦 pypi.org/project/dj-s...

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Sometimes you only want a field to show when certain other fields have a (particular) value. The `form-show-if` web component enables that.

After over 4 months of development, django-tasks 0.9.0 is out! 🥳 - Django 6.0 support - RQ optimisations - Dropped `enqueue_on_commit` support - A number of renames and refactors to match upstream Django A small set of changes, but one of the largest diffs to date! github.com/RealOrangeOn...

I benchmarked --help on a CLI with the ref implementation for PEP 810 (lazy imports). Because my CLI moved imports into functions just before they get used, I got a speedup of x1.3. Then I moved all the imports to the top like normal, and got a speedup of x2.9! hugovk.dev/blog/2025/la... #Python

The world is going to shit and I still have to do my part to increase shareholder value tomorrow

📝 New Post: The Killer Feature of #webcomponents A quick dive into the Custom Elements Manifest and why this community standard is a 10x effort multiplier. daverupert.com/2025/10/cust...

Luckily when terrestrial television dies, we’ll be able to be completely dependent on disruptor billionaires who can’t budget properly and think all media is free and are probably going to go bust at the same time because it’s still just unproven spec tech, so that’ll be good.