Tim Schilling

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Give Django your time and money, not your tokens

March 16, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.

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Lunch Talk Series: High Performance Django at Ten: Old Tricks & New Picks

March 10, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

A review of Peter Baumgartner's DjangoCon US talk on revisiting topics from the book "High Performance Django".

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Lunch Talk Series: Easy, Breezy, Beautiful… Django Unit Tests

March 2, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

A review of Colleen Dunlap's DjangoCon US talk on introducing unit testing and how to write tests with Django.

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Lunch Talk Series: Django needs you! (to do code review)

Feb. 1, 2026 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

A review of Sarah Boyce's DjangoCon Europe 2025 keynote on the topic of code reviews for the Django framework.

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Connecting with Django contributors on Mastodon

Nov. 26, 2025 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

It's easier to contribute to open-source if you connect with people. This post dives into where to do that to connect with the Django community.

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Updated tutorial: A Djangonaut’s Debugging Toolkit

Nov. 3, 2025 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

I've updated my debugging tutorial. It's a self-guided tutorial to learn about a Djangonaut's debugging toolkit.

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DjangoCon Africa 2025 recap

Aug. 25, 2025 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

A recap of my fantastic DjangoCon Africa, UbuCon Africa 2025 experience. It was the first time I travelled to Africa, keynoted a conference and went on a safari.

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Third-party packages in Django’s documentation

July 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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Django Commons a year later

May 21, 2025 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

Revisiting the state of Django Commons a year after I published a call for help.

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Reflecting on Djangonaut Space Session 4

April 30, 2025 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

How Djangonaut Space has expanded my worldview and created meaningful global connections.

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