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• Post #1942157

  Preparing to head home after a wonderful week in Durham for #djangocon 🐂 . I will write up some thoughts on the plane, but tl;dr this is a unique community, and it feels in a very good place at the moment.

• Post #1673900

  I decided to do a super simple Django blog tutorial and repo. https://github.com/wsvincent/django-blog Likely the launching point for a bunch of future tutorials around deployment....

• Post #1119338

  https://browsergate.eu/ tl;dr LinkedIn Searching Your Computer via Chrome browser extensions

• Post #1119337

  Welp edition 331 of Django News Newsletter is out. Hard to believe @webology and I have been doing this for over 7 years now, every single week. We're at 4,300ish subscribers: large enough to reach the people who influence Django, small enough to be a drop in the ocean of developers actually using Django. It's a somewhat odd place to be. https://django-news.com/issues/331#start

• Post #1119336

  Them: How's it going today? Me: Great, thanks for asking.

• Post #1119335

  Dealing with dead links on a Friday morning. https://wsvincent.com/dead-links-2026-edition/ Tried to vibe code a fix, which half worked. Ended up correcting Claude quite a bit. Probably would have been faster to just do it manually. Only was able to fix it at all cause I've had to manually fight with DNS, Jekyll, Cloudflare, Netlify, and so on for years. :eyeroll:

• Post #780422

  @martinicat @programmylife @djangochat @adamghill @carlton Indeed. Sadly or proudly I can confidently quote about 90% of that movie on command.

• Post #780421

  @martinicat @programmylife @djangochat @adamghill @carlton Very cool! Love that soundtrack. I think that was one of the first movie soundtracks that sold a lot on its own?

• Post #780420

  I wrote up a recap of the PyTV Python Unplugged conference last week. Lots of photos and some insights into all the effort required for just a one day event. Hats off to organizers of multi-day events like @djangocon, @djangoconeurope, and @djangoconafrica! https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/03/python-unplugged-on-pytv-recap/

• Post #780418

  OpenAI acquiring Astral is sending shockwaves through the Python and AI programming communities. I believe it opens up a 4th way to solve a historic problem: how to fund open source. https://wsvincent.com/openai-acquiring-astral/

• Post #647878

  The final of 3 video shorts I took at @djangocon is now up. This one focuses on favorite Django 3rd party package, always a fun discussion! https://youtube.com/shorts/h5_tZxBAx0E?si=WKCz4OZYK1p21pWA

• Post #627359

  The PyCharm team at JetBrains is hosting the inaugural PyTV Python Unplugged conference on March 4th in Amsterdam. It's a FREE, online Python conference available to everyone everywhere. The event will be livestreamed and available on YouTube afterward. Django-specific speakers include @sheena, @sarahboyce, and @carlton, among many others. You can save the date here: https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-unplugged/

• Post #627358

  If you are NOT reading the London Review of Books on the regular, try out this latest piece on Updike and see if it is of interest. So many laugh-out-loud phrases that only a Brit could write. I can't quote most of them here. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n03/james-wolcott/what-you-can-get-away-with

• Post #528481

  The 2025 State of Python survey is now out! This is the annual survey done by @ThePSF and @jetbrains. @mkennedy wrote up a great summary (linked) of the highlights. https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2025/08/the-state-of-python-2025/