On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about decoupling business logic from the Django ORM, web scraping, and more. With content from: @adamj.eu @carltongibson.bsky.social @alsweigart.bsky.social and others not on the 🦋 Plus: CB shows his chops! 🎸

✍️ New post detailing a workaround I came up with for “leak” beahviour from Python 3.14’s new garbage collection algorithm. Topical as @hugovk.dev recently announced that the algorithm will be reverted in the next patch release! adamj.eu/tech/2026/04... #Django #Python

✍️ New post introducing profiling-explorer, a tool for exploring Python profiling data (pstats files). Use it with the classic cProfile (now called profiling.tracing) or Python 3.15’s new sampling profiler, Tachyon (profiling.sampling). adamj.eu/tech/2026/04... #Python

Nice IPython Easter Egg! 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransDayOfVisibility #Python

I've just done a pass over a client project with deptry, and it worked great for finding unused dependencies! deptry.com #Python

A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.

Wow, thanks @hugovk.dev for making my "import datetime as dt" recommendation official in the Python docs, with a link to my blog! github.com/python/cpyth... #Python

Very interesting PEP that could unlock a clear way to type Django’s ORM peps.python.org/pep-0827/ #Django #Python

[Articles] Django: profile memory usage with Memray Use Memray to profile Django startup, identify heavy imports like numpy, and reduce memory by deferring, lazy importing, or replacing dependencies. #djangonews adamj.eu/tech/2026/0...

✍️ New post introducing icu4py: Python bindings to ICU (International Components for Unicode), the official translation and localization library from Unicode. adamj.eu/tech/2026/02... #Python #AI #i18n #l10n

Yay, my packages django-htmx and django-rich are now receiving income through Tidelift. Thanks, Tidelift and its subscribers! 🚀

✍️ New post on using Memray to profile the memory usage of a Django project. You can use this tool to find and eliminate memory-costly lines of code. The example in the post finds and removes a costly import, reducing startup time. adamj.eu/tech/2026/01... #Django #Python

Yay, they covered tprof! 🎯

A packet of ~60 giga bites

✍️ New post introducing tprof, a new targeting profiler for Python 3.12+ that measures only specified functions. Use tprof to measure the impact of a few functions without adding overhead to the whole program. adamj.eu/tech/2026/01... #Python

Made a nice optimization for Model.objects.bulk_create() with fields using db_default, ~12% in one quick benchmark: github.com/django/djang... #Django

✍️ New post with last month’s quiz from Django London! Test your Django knowledge with these 12 questions, or just skim the answers and learn something new. adamj.eu/tech/2026/01... #Django

Thinking again about this 2023 post that sketches out how Twitter could feasibly run on a single big-ass server thume.ca/2023/01/02/o...

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For banging pizza in London go to Japes and get “London style” japes.uk/styles-of-pi... #London #Pizza

📐 I just used @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social 's sweet-as richbench project for the first time, to validate a small optimization. Will definitely be using it again in the future! github.com/mongodb/mong...

🕰️ time-machine 3.2.0 is out! This is my package for mocking the current time in Python tests. The new "naive mode" controls how time-machine interprets naive datetimes. Use it for freezegun compatibility when migrating, or test reproducibility. time-machine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ch... #Python

I just used Django Upgrade to help upgrade an older code base: django-upgrade.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Thanks to @adamj.eu for maintaining this awesome lib. Now with awesome new logo!

It was great fun to host another edition of our December quiz. Thanks to all that came!

CSS text-decoration-inset landed in Firefox 146! Here's how it works:

Just encountered a service where clicking "Reject" on the cookie banner logs you out. Fair play.

Oh wow, my post is #3 on Hacker News right now!

✍️ New post on HTTP basic authentication Following my previous post on bearer authentication, this one covers HTTP basic auth, a simple mechanism that browsers natively support. It’s great for quick-and-dirty password protection, and it doesn’t take much code. adamj.eu/tech/2025/12... #Django

Beautiful DnB set with live choir! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcSB...

🚀 Django 6.0 is out! This is a super exciting new release, introducing the tasks framework, template partials, Content Security Policy support, improved email handling, and lots more! Here are my annotated and expanded highlights from the release notes: adamj.eu/tech/2025/12... #Django

It’s here!!

this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...

Hilariously horrifying

📚🧵 It’s Cyber Monday, the last day my books on Git, GitHub and Django will be 50% discounted. Here’s a quick thread to give you a taste of what’s inside each of them. #Git #GitHub #Django

Here’s a song for toddlers who tried out broccoli and (ADHD?) adults who finally managed to process that email they’ve been putting off for months. mamanous.bandcamp.com/track/im-pro...

it's rocking because it's Dylan it's funny because it's true

👉 Django-related Black Friday deals from myself and 8 other creators: adamj.eu/tech/2025/11... #Django

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👾 My top 8 GitHub CLI (gh) commands to boost your productivity. 🧵 Distilled from my blog post earlier this week, link at the end. #GitHub #gh

I voted in the DSF election with hours to spare 😅 Thanks to my toddler for the 4am wakeup. Now he's back asleep, I found some morning computer time and remembered to vote. Many strong candidates—good luck to y'all! www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/... #DSF #Django

✍️ New post showing how to implement HTTP Bearer authentication in Django. No need for a heavyweight framework: you can write token-based auth for a small API in just a few lines of code, for which this post shows a reusable decorator. adamj.eu/tech/2025/11... #Django

✍️ New post covering my top 8 GitHub CLI (gh) commands to boost your productivity, like `gh repo clone` and `gh pr create`. Check it out! adamj.eu/tech/2025/11... #GitHub #gh #Git

Preemptively blocking people who’ve spammed slop at various repositories. #TodayInOpenSource

🐎 Django-related deals for Black Friday 🐎 Divert from the typical shopping frenzy to check out these deals from Django-related creators to help you learn and use the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. adamj.eu/tech/2025/11... #Django #Python #BlackFriday

We made a new caching library for #django and deployed it today. It is the only cheap and horizontally-scalable Django cache that we know of. We plan to use it to cache tens of millions of items large and small: www.reddit.com/r/django/com...

⏰ time-machine v3 is out! 🕰️ This package helps you accurately mock time-related functions in your tests. v3 cleans up some warts from previous versions, including removing the breaks-many-things mocking of time.monotonic(). time-machine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ch... #Python

😮‍💨 tfw you find out the final section of your book was invalidated days before its release as GitHub removed the years-old tool… github.blog/changelog/20... #GitHub

😸😸😸 Woohoo! My new book, Boost Your GitHub DX, is out now! 😸😸😸 It’s about using GitHub more effectively, touring you through the fundamental features with my experience-based commentary. Check out the release post for more info and a link to the free sample: adamj.eu/tech/2025/11... #GitHub #Git

htmx v4 is in alpha!