March 25, 2026 » Matthias Kestenholz » [Archived Version]
LLMs for Open Source maintenance: a cautious case When ChatGPT appeared on the scene I was very annoyed at all the hype surrounding it. Since I’m working in the fast moving and low margin business of communication and campaigning agencies I’m surrounded by people eager to jump on the hype train when a tool promises to lessen the workload and take stuff from everyone’s plate. These discussions coupled with the fact that the training of these tools required unfathomable amounts of stealing were t…
Read MoreMarch 25, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
A review of Alex Henman's DjangoCon US talk on real-world techniques to make maintaining Django applications easier.
Read MoreMarch 23, 2026 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]
Way back in 2005, lots of people (ordinary people, not just people who work in tech) used to have personal blogs where they wrote about things, rather than using third-party short-form social media sites. I was one of those people (though I wasn’t yet blogging on this specific site, which launched the following year). And back in 2005, and even earlier, people liked to have comment sections on their blogs where readers could leave their thoughts on posts. And that was an absolute magnet for spa…
Read MoreMarch 22, 2026 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]
At Fancer we are building the security suite for startups. Startups use a lot of SaaS tools and services which means we are building a lot of integrations. Most of these go through API calls but we also try to leverage SDKs to make our lives a little bit easier. The problem we started noticing was that loading all these 3rd party integrations has made our Django app feel very sluggish. While this was noticeable around deployments and starting scans, it hurt the most during local development. It…
Read MoreMarch 22, 2026 » Screaming At My Screen » [Archived Version]
I have seen more and more people talk about human.json lately and I think it is a pretty neat idea. From what I can tell it checks all the boxes I would expect from a protocol like this. The fact that it relies on browser extensions right now makes sense, but might become a limiting factor in future. Or the number of extensions needs to go up beyond the two easy ones and come to mobile as well. I am not sure this will be going anywhere beyond a few enthusiastic people, but you never know. Imple…
Read MoreMarch 20, 2026 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Sunsetting Jazzband After more than a decade maintaining 80+ Python projects, Jazzband is winding down as AI-generated spam and long-standing sustainability challenges make its open, shared-maintenance model no longer viable. jazzband.co Astral to join OpenAI Astral, creators of Ruff and uv, are joining OpenAI’s Codex team to push the future of AI-powered Python development while continuing to support their open source tools. …
Read MoreMarch 20, 2026 » Latest Django Videos » [Archived Version]
Elaine and Jon are the chair/co-chair respectively of PyCon US, the largest Python conference in North America, happening this May in Long Beach, CA. We discuss what to expect at the conference, new additions from last year, tips on where to stay, and generally how to maximize your PyCon experience. 🔗 Links * PyCon US website: https://us.pycon.org/2026/ * Volunteer mailing list: https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/pycon-volunteers.python.org/ * Elaine on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/…
Read MoreMarch 18, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
Django Security Label is a Django third-party package to help you define rules to dynamically anonymize/mask your data for PostgreSQL databases. It makes use of the PostgreSQL Anonymizer extension and supports creating any type of SECURITY LABEL.
Read MoreMarch 17, 2026 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]
If you do not understand the ticket, if you do not understand the solution, or if you do not understand the feedback on your PR, then your use of LLM is hurting Django as a whole. [...] For a reviewer, it’s demoralizing to communicate with a facade of a human. This is because contributing to open source, especially Django, is a communal endeavor. Removing your humanity from that experience makes that endeavor more difficult. If you use an LLM to contribute to Django, it needs to be as a complem…
Read MoreMarch 16, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.
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