Carlton Gibson

carlton@chaos.social

Veteran software engineer and open source juggler 🤹 Last optimist in town.I mostly work on and with the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Django" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Django</a> web framework. I've been using it forever, maintain a package or two, am a former Django Fellow and Django’s Security Team member and am on the 6.x Steering Council.Other than that, it’s parenting, cooking, and philosophy. He/him

Posts

Post #4155014
Paul Krugman hoy: > I’ve been looking at a 2012 report from the UN, their climate project, that very clearly forecast growing incidents of extreme weather, extreme heatwaves, storms, flooding, and by implication, at least, wildfires. This was clearly in the cards. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fire-this-time
Post #2436224
Perhaps all those folk who never do updates weren’t wrong 🤔
Post #2212951
How I approach decoupling business logic from the Django ORM. https://buttondown.com/carlton/archive/decoupling-your-business-logic-from-the-django-orm/ #django #TheStackReport
Post #1844120
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uMe_j2rr850
Post #1769099
&gt; To him, our modern frontend stack looked like we’d declared war on the platform itself. https://alfy.blog/2025/10/04/how-functional-programming-shaped-modern-frontend.html
Post #1673767
Django doesn&#39;t release often enough for you? What are you gonna do? Run main, of course. 🦄 https://noumenal.es/posts/running-django-main/O2x/ #Django
Post #1671920
Nice work @mahryekuh! 🏅 https://github.com/django/django/commit/63c56cda133a85a158502891c40465bc0331d3d9
Post #1668988
Finally got time to block out my proposal to move Django to an Annual Release Cycle as a DEP. Let&#39;s get into the details 🫠 — do give it 👍 if you&#39;re keen. https://github.com/django/deps/pull/109 #django
Post #1552294
Announcing the next edition of Django on the Med 🏖️ tl;dr September 23 to 25, 2026 in Pescara, Italy 🇮🇹 We&#39;ll see you there! https://buttondown.com/django-on-the-med/archive/django-on-the-med-is-back/ #Django #DjangoOnTheMed #Sprints
Post #1505390
A little wisdom from the #LRB
Post #1433134
Fantastic talk from @anorthall on digitising historical caving data with an LLM pipeline and Django. #djangoconeurope #djangoconeu2026
Post #1105132
Yesterday we were having the old built-in vs write your own discussion about templates for the DTL. @nessita mentioned that bootstrapping the templatetags module can be a pain. It’s a one time cost but it’s still multiple steps. “I bet django-extensions already does this”. And sure enough: https://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/create_template_tags.html It really is a great little add on. ⭐️ #django
Post #1105131
&quot;Every one is an LTS&quot; — Here&#39;s my proposal to move Django to an annual release cycle. 🌶️🌶️🌶️ No idea how that&#39;s gonna go but 🥳 https://buttondown.com/carlton/archive/an-annual-release-cycle-for-django/ #Django #TheStackReport
Post #881811
Current vibes
Post #793540
Django on the Med 🏖️ has a fedidevs page! https://fedidevs.com/djangomed25/ (Such a good app @anze3db) #DjangoOnTheMed
Post #731269
In case you need to hear it, burnout is a structural outcome, not a personal failure. It’s OK to stop. 🫂