Sometimes you’re not having the best day and then one of your vendors texts you: Just so you know, you've always been the coolest customer I have

How are you improving your habits this week?

As a father of daughters one must make Pumpkin Spice Pancakes!

In case you missed it yesterday, PostgreSQL 18 is a big release! Should provide huge performance improvements for most users, don't sleep on this one. www.postgresql.org/about/news/...

Django News - django.tasks exists - Sep 26th 2025 https://django-news.com/issues/304

My recent frustration with Teams means I can easily relate to this. lionelbarrow.substack.com/p/dont-even...

AI addons in products crack me. In Adobe Acrobat, confused as to how to add a signature to this document so give the big 'Ask AI Assistant' button a try...

I'm probably guilty of this but I hope MOST of what I write isn't a good example of this! anniemueller.com/posts/how-i...

Jesus was the official table flipper.

I give you Latin Lasagna Kebobs! Served with a cilantro crema. Probably offending half with the world at once! 🤣

FYI you stop using your food processor as much when you get good with a knife.

Big day! Fresh software hot out of the oven. Get your Django 6.0 alpha 1 while it's still warm! www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...

Big day! Fresh software hot out of the oven. Get your Django 6.0 alpha 1 while it's still warm! www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...

Not to brag, but the AI has said I'm "Absolutely right!" several times this morning already. #winning

Realized I hadn’t looked at Svelte very deeply last time I looked and then ran across this. I’m sure there is a reason you use #, :, and / in an if/else block but I can’t think of what that reason might be! Anyone know? svelte.dev/tutorial/sv...

Looking Forward to Django 6.0 #python

Soy/honey/miso marinated chicken wheels and a green goddess salad. Yum! Glad to be home!

There is a difference between being a Principal Engineer and a Principaled Engineer. Be the latter.

It's nice being back in the office (ok, not the INBOX part but the rest) but already missing #djangocon folks. You know if ya'll would just move to Lawrence we could do that all the time, just sayin' 😀

Finally got to meet @muheuenga in person at #djangcon

This morning we held a DSF Update session at DjangoCon US 2025 in Chicago 🇺🇸 There were tons of new things from the DSF for the community 🗞️ Thank you for attending and for all the visits to the DSF booth 🤗 CC @jacobian.org @thibaudcolas.bsky.social @fwiles.bsky.social @djangoproject.com @djangocon.us

Next up, we have @jacobian.org @thibaudcolas.bsky.social @fwiles.bsky.social @paulox.net giving a community update from @djangoproject.com #DjangoCon @djangocon.us

At #DjangoCon and the live captioning had a fun typo “Two Skips of Django”. Can imagine Danny and Audrey skipping on the next cover!

#DjangoConUS is getting started!

Me reading the Django Pony a bedtime story 15 years ago! www.flickr.com/photos/bast... from DjangoCon 2010

Just told another friend about nats.io really surprised more people aren't using this and event sourcing more, so many useful patterns emerge when you embrace it.

Time to complain about MS Teams again. Locked me out of my account last week for "suspicious activity" which was a bug on their end which kept asking me to login. But still dutifully sends me email updates from Teams #SecurityFail

Jeff just showed me this uv option and man would this have been handy a couple of dozen times over the last decade! docs.astral.sh/uv/referenc...

In case you missed this talk at PyCon US this year, it's well worth the time for you to learn a bit more about `@singledispatch` www.youtube.com/watch?v=hid...

MS Teams caused me problems earlier in the week and now I’m having to fight Broadcom/VM to help with a kids school assignment. How are these companies still in business? So much fail in some many directions…

Talk about making me feel like the old nerd that I am! Before 2001? Geez I dunno, running a cable ISP was a big part of it! 🤣

📝 'How aikido helps me at work' 👤 Samantha Zeitlin 📖 My 12-yr aikido journey: finding life's true harmony. 🔗 https://szeitlin.github.io/posts/career_skills/how_aikido_helps_me_at_work/ #pyladies#python#oldiebutgoodie

In light of the recent CDC developments it would be a REAL SHAME if every sick person spit on the HHS Secretary every time he was in public. A real shame…

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

We have an opening for a principal software engineer on the Python tools team. If you're interested in debuggers, language server protocol, and AI then you might find the position interesting! https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1854048/Principal-Software-Engineer

If you told 90s me that there would be professional documentaries about any programming language I would have accused you have taking too many drugs at Lollapalooza! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH...

Hey everyone! I'm going to try out this live streaming thing. Want to join my very first live stream? #python #django www.twitch.tv/thefrankwiles 5PM Eastern today!

MS Teams is such a piece of shit. Logged out because it wouldn't let my signed in account attend a meeting on someone else's account. Logged back into my account and in a sign-in loop. Now the account is locked. May start charging customers extra if we have to use Teams

Sometimes even *I* fail at meaningfully changing a company's engineering culture. Got any good stories of where you couldn't get your company or client to do the right things?

Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.

Think we’re at maximum AI hype now. Just passed a small group of adults discussing how wrong AI has been for them in their fields. On a walk in the suburbs. In Kansas!

I’ve been getting requests to do more video content. While I’ll surely improve the visual quality (edits, graphics, etc) over time, what topics would you all want? Longer form or shorts?

If you ever work to improve systems in your job, take 12 minutes and watch this video by Russ Ackoff You don't improve a system by just improving the individual parts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqE...

In case you missed this post over the weekend. Did you know Redis can be put into a LFU (Least Frequently Used) expiration/eviction mode? This is incredibly useful for things like user sessions when getting hit by bad AI/web crawlers. www.revsys.com/tidbits/som...

Apparently Claude is a big Queen fan. When it comes to writing tests it keeps singing: We will, we will mock you We will, we will mock you

Did you know it's easy to customize your IPython experience even in Docker? Check out the project specific imports, data loading and even handy debugging tools you could be using frankwiles.com/posts/custo... #python

Anyone paying even the slightest amount of attention could've seen this coming

Did you know it's easy to customize your IPython experience even in Docker? Check out the project specific imports, data loading and even handy debugging tools you could be using frankwiles.com/posts/custo... #python

I had a blast joining the panel yesterday for a @talkpython.fm livestream on "Django's 20th Birthday." Guests included Adrian Holovaty, @simonwillison.net , @thibaudcolas.bsky.social , @webology.bsky.social , and @mkennedy.codes. www.youtube.com/live/qlYCUI5...

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