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• Post #4421614

  The Django Software Foundation is hiring an Executive Director! Main responsibilities: fundraising, managing staff and day-to-day operations, and generally helping the DSF mature. We’re looking for candidates with a history of nonprofit leadership; Python/Django/OSS experience nice but not req’d. Remote, but US-only. Idfeally full-time, possibly part-time. $90-120k/yr, plus bonuses for hitting fundraising targets. Happy to answer questions over DM/email; hit me up! https://www.djangoproject....

• Post #3086562

  Clearly, the solution to all of the problems caused by LLMs is to mock, ridicule, and harass the rsync maintainer. That’ll solve it.

• Post #2240784

  Better to burn out than fade away… https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

• Post #2222452

  > Lots of situations in life are like this, where there’s a loud way to accomplish very little and a quiet way to do some good. And far too often, we reward people for doing the loud ineffective thing. We reward them for putting on a show for us, not for accomplishing the goal we wanted. https://alexgaynor.net/2025/jan/27/stop-demanding-performance/

• Post #2189128

  I fear the day is coming when I may have to figure out who the fuck Hasan Piker is.

• Post #2151665

  Rachel Entrekin has won the Cocodona 250 outright in 59:09:48, breaking the overall course record by over 2.5 hours. Second place / M1 is still well over an hour out, and F2 is at least 4 hours behind. One of the most amazing ultrarunning performances in recent memory, simply spectacular!

• Post #1956192

  I love the quasi-tradition of having keynote speakers from a bit outside the Django community, and this is a _perfect_ continuation of that tradition. Can’t wait! https://fosstodon.org/@djangocon/114936560664906033

• Post #1770608

  Holy shit it happened! I genuinely thought it would happen on a stunt setting like breaking2 long before it happened in a real sanctioned race. Amazing! https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/live/cjd9xpmnvj3t

• Post #1628888

  You can measure your skill at DIY house projects by the ratio of visits to the hardware store against days of work: - no visits: god tier - less than one visit per day: excellent, you know what you’re doing - 1 visit / day: average - more than 1 visit / day: reconsider your life choices

• Post #1516065

  “You cannot vote with your wallet. Or rather, you can, but you will lose that vote. Wallet-votes always go to the people with the thickest wallets, and statistically, that is not you. […] Make individual choices that make your life better. Take collective action to make society better.” https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/consumption-choices/#marginal-benefits

• Post #1119531

  I think it’s worth remembering that nonviolence is a tactic, not some sort of universal moral imperative. There are certain situations where nonviolent activism was effective. And others where violence prevented far worse outcomes.

• Post #1105137

  This is also the Ultrarunner’s Creed https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116354401815881089

• Post #932000

  This more or less sums up my position on genAI. My only quibble is that “the worst thing is the ahitty people”, while true, sort of implies the other shitty things (slop, culture death, data centers in the fucking desert) aren’t pretty goddamn bad too. But the people are truely staggeringly historically terrible. https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116337461606384177

• Post #901458

  Look this isn’t at all a defense of slop code, but it has me thinking — how much does code quality matter, and why? It’s maintenance, right? We care about readability because we know we’ll have to make changes, fix bugs, etc. But so … imagine a codebase that’s magically bug-free and feature-complete. (I’m aware this is a strawman - that’s the point, it’s a thought experiment.) Does it matter if this codebase is well-written? I’m not sure it does! (1/3)

• Post #843810

  Really grateful to get to serve another term, and beyond thrilled to have @ryancheley and @priyapahwa joining the board! https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/nov/28/2026-dsf-board-election-results/

• Post #818056

  I do believe that people can change, and that there can (and should) be a path back to good standing in a community. But that path needs to involve taking ownership of the harm they caused — even if, heck especially if, they’re no longer a person who would do those things. And they need to at least attempt to make amends in some way. Without these things, I’m not going to be able to assume good intentions of someone trying to come back.

• Post #88767

  I keep seeing this joke and it’s quite funny but it elides the fact that Firefox has a long and glorious history of dick-hammering! Every time over the last at least decade they’ve been offfered anything hammer-shaped they’ve gleefully used it to pound wood. Despite many leadership changes whoever’s in charge has been quite consistent about a commitment to chase down new shiny hammers. https://mastodon.social/@TheZeldaZone/114082180124431864

• Post #85794

  For folks who’re interested in 3d printing whistles: https://www.printables.com/model/417238-loudest-emergency-whistle is the best I’ve found. They’ve been tested on canyoneering trips — we use whistles to communicate over the sound of waterfalls; nothing else is piercing enough to cut through the thunder. These work as well as the gold standard Fox 40 Classic. I print it florescent orange PLA, with an 0.6mm nozzle and 0.3mm layer height, and make lanyards out of orange paracord.