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Django Chat Podcast #178, Django and Rust Tooling with Lily Foote, is now live! Lily joins us again to talk about the new Steering Council, composite primary keys in Django 5.2, working with uv package manager, and more. djangochat.com/episodes/dja...

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A reminder that if you are in the Boston area, I'm giving a talk next Tuesday, 6pm at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge. Would love to meet anyone who can attend! www.meetup.com/bostonpython...

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🎉 The Django News Newsletter Issue 276: DjangoCon US CFP Django Form Basics, Creating Open Graphs, DRF Video Series, and more. django-news.com/issues/276#...

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Django News - DjangoCon US CFP - Mar 14th 2025 https://django-news.com/issues/276

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[News] Django for APIs (5th Edition) The fifth edition of the book, Django for APIs, has now been released and is available as either an online course or in paperback. #djangonews wsvincent.com/django-for-...

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Me trying out different backgrounds for a video setup. Also me = realizing my apartment and co-working space are both red bricks and white walls which, for someone with my coloring, is a bit of a challenge 😒

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Current book. A lot to ponder.

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I'm giving a talk on "Django for Data Science" to the Boston Python group on March 25th, 6pm at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA. This is a dry run of my DjangoCon Europe keynote, so please come with questions and all the rest if you're around :) www.meetup.com/bostonpython...

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Django News - Django 5.1.7, 5.0.13, and 4.2.20 - Mar 7th 2025 https://django-news.com/issues/275

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Faster installs and smoother workflows – #uv is available in PyCharm! Improve your package management with PyCharm! Learn how to: ✅ Install uv in the IDE ✅ Use uv as a project interpreter ✅ Manage dependencies with ease 🔗 Watch now: jb.gg/m44q2c

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The 5th edition of my book, Django for APIs, is now available. It covers the latest version of Django (5.1), Django REST Framework (3.15), and much more. It's available as either an online course at learndjango.com/courses/djan... or a paperback on Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/173546728....

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Ep177: Sticking with Django w/ Florian Apolloner @florian.apolloner.eu is a long-time Django contributor who previously served on the Steering Council and Security Team. We discuss changes to Django, switching to `uv`, and drawing inspiration from other frameworks. djangochat.com/episodes/sti...

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If you are a student or new to open source, apply for Google Summer of Code 2025! You'll have a chance to сontribute to Kotlin-related projects,and collaborate with mentors from JetBrains, Google, Uber, and Gradle. Join us ➛ kotl.in/gsoc2025

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I wrote a new post, "Averaging Our Way to AGI," that talks about LLMs history, their architecture, and what the future might hold. wsvincent.com/averaging-ou...

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I asked GPT for help with swag slogans for PyCharm's upcoming PyCon US appearance. One option that made me laugh was, "Django: Where Views Are Actually Useful." That hits deep.

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Weekend long read on how Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose has oversold new AI tools coding without knowing how to code, as a case study in a larger phenomenon of leading journalists hyping AI: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

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LLMs like ChatGPT reward detailed prompts with better responses, while Google search tends to degrade with longer queries. This contrast makes it harder for people used to Google to maximize LLM potential, as effective prompting requires a different approach than traditional keyword-based search.

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This month's Stack Report is out now. The first in a series of subscriber only posts about finding your market, and niche, in software. buttondown.com/carlton/arch... #StackReport

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The U.S. government has put up a submission form for reporting schools who teach kids about “DEI.” It accepts file uploads. Internet, you know what to do enddei.ed.gov

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Ok, I had to write something on the latest AI hype article, this one going on about "Vibe Coding." wsvincent.com/vibe-coding/

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Just hit 10k stars on GitHub for the awesome-django repo I manage along with @webology.bsky.social github.com/wsvincent/aw... Thanks for everyone who has contributed.

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I wrote a piece on "What Does a Developer Advocate Do?". Since I get this question a lot and it's related to my new job at JetBrains. wsvincent.com/what-does-a-...

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🔥 Generic LLMs are powerful, but code completion demands more ✨ That's why we built Mellum to be lean, fast, and focused on your code! 💻 Learn why we built it and how it works: Read the blog 👉 jb.gg/w1htv3 #JetBrains #Mellum #AI #CodeCompletion

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TIL about Django Steering Council Project within django/django. github.com/orgs/django/...

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Know your history.

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Django News - DjangoCon US Call for Proposals - Feb 14th 2025 https://django-news.com/issues/272

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garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-o... this is a very interesting take...

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You may have heard me rambling about software design pressure on the Django Chat podcast and if you hang out with me in the past ~2 years, chances are you’ve heard more rambling, still. Looks like I’ll have to distill those ramblings into a 30 minutes talk! #PyConUS djangochat.com/episodes/pyt...

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Big news from MongoDB. @carltongibson.bsky.social and I interviewed the team lead yesterday for a @djangochat.bsky.social episode coming out in 2 weeks. www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mo...

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Episode 175: The Future of Django - Emma Delescolle is now live! Emma is a longtime Django community member and newly elected member of the Django 6.x Steering Council. We discuss the future of Django, class-based views, django-ninja, and more. djangochat.com/episodes/the...

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I'm very pleased to note I'll be giving a keynote talk at DjangoCon Europe in Dublin this April. The topic is "Django for Data Science: Deploying Machine Learning Models with Django." pretalx.evolutio.pt/djangocon-eu...

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