July 24, 2025 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
I recently subscribed to Le Monde Diplomatique, a French-language, monthly newspaper. I have to say it's wonderful. I'm currently reading an article on The true meaning of "fake news": Dans cette configuration, la capacité d’argumenter, de s’écouter mutuellement et de résoudre des conflits par le biais de la raison laisserait peu à peu place à une guerre civile numérique nourrie par l’ambition politique de quelques milliardaires. Principale victime : la vérité elle-même. Ou, pour être plus p…
Read MoreJuly 21, 2025 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]
I’ve found it useful, on occasion, to iterate through all registered URL patterns in a Django project. Sometimes this has been for checking URL layouts or auditing which views are registered. In this post, we’ll look at a pattern for doing that, along with an example use case …
Read MoreJuly 18, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News 🎂 Happy 20th birthday Django! On July 13th 2005, Jacob Kaplan-Moss made the first commit to the public repository that would become Django. Twenty years and 400+ releases later, here we are – Happy 20th birthday Django! 🎉 djangoproject.com 📻 W2D Django 20th Celebration Continues 🎂 Nearing one week in, two operators of the W2D special event station honoring Django's 20th birthday have made over 400 contacts with 22 geopolitical entitie…
Read MoreJuly 15, 2025 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
EuroPython is the official European conference for the Python programming language.
Read MoreJuly 15, 2025 » timonweb.com » [Archived Version]
I created Django-Tailwind back in 2019, at a time when most Djangonauts hadn’t even heard of Tailwind CSS. Since then, the package has grown in popularity, and although I’ve taken some longer breaks from maintaining it, I’ve always returned with renewed energy. That’s happened again recently—after the grueling task of … Read now
Read MoreJuly 13, 2025 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]
Today is the 20th anniversary of the first commit to the public Django repository! Ten years ago we threw a multi-day 10th birthday party for Django back in its birthtown of Lawrence, Kansas. As a personal celebration of the 20th, I'm revisiting the talk I gave at that event and writing it up here. Here's the YouTube video. Below is a full transcript, plus my slides and some present-day annotations. Django Origins (and some things I have built with Django) Presented 11th July 2015 at Django…
Read MoreJuly 13, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
On July 13th 2005, Jacob Kaplan-Moss made the first commit to the public repository that would become Django. Twenty years and 400+ releases later, here we are – Happy 20th birthday Django! 🎉 Join the celebrations We want to share this special occasion with you all! Our new 20-years of Django website showcases all online and local events happening around the world, through all of 2025. As well as other opportunities to celebrate! Expect birthday cake 🎂 and singing Happy Birthday A special quiz…
Read MoreJuly 11, 2025 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]
Following the widespread availability of large language models (LLMs), the Django Security Team has received a growing number of security reports generated partially or entirely using such tools. Many of these contain inaccurate, misleading, or fictitious content. While AI tools can help draft or analyze reports, they must not replace human understanding and review. If you use AI tools to help prepare a report, you must: Disclose which AI tools were used and specify what they were used for (an…
Read MoreJuly 11, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Django’s Ecosystem The official Django website has added a new page called “Django’s Ecosystem” with a list of resources and 3rd party packages. djangoproject.com Python Release Python 3.14.0b4 It's the final 3.14 beta! Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to support the new feature release. python.org Updates to …
Read MoreJuly 9, 2025 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
A quick post on why we should include references to third-party packages in Django's documentation. Mainly, we've already solved curation and developers are doing to develop!
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