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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Software Development
Artificial Intelligence has become the backbone of modern software development, driving efficiency and innovation across every phase of the lifecycle. From AI-powered code generation and automated bug detection to intelligent testing, refactoring, and DevOps optimization, AI is reshaping how software gets built and delivered. Developers now spend less time on repetitive tasks and more on solving complex problems, leading to faster releases, higher quality, and greater team productivity. In today’s competitive landscape, integrating AI isn’t optional—it’s the new standard for staying ahead. -
Django Girls Pescara 2025
The second-ever Django Girls workshop in Pescara, organised by the Python Pescara community and hosted inside DevFest Pescara 2025 by GDG Pescara. -
Django News - Django security releases issued: 5.2.8, 5.1.14, and 4.2.26 - Nov 7th 2025
News Django security releases issued: 5.2.8, 5.1.14, and 4.2.26 Django 5.2.8, 5.1.14, and 4.2.26 fix a Windows NFKC redirect DoS and a high severity SQL injection via QuerySet Q _connector; upgrade now. djangoproject.com 2026 DSF Board Candidates DSF presents 19 candidates for three 2026 board seats with voting open to eligible members until November 26, 2025, 23:59 AOE. djangoproject.com Announcing DjangoCon Europe 2026 in Athens, Greece! ☀️🏖️🏛️🇬🇷 DjangoCon Europe 2026 will take place in Athens April 15 to 17 with Django and Python talks, workshops, sprints, and community engagement opportunities. djangoproject.com Django Software Foundation Django Developers Survey 2025 results 2025 Django Developers Survey reveals key trends, tooling preferences, and actionable recommendations for Django development, with a full report and JetBrains analysis. djangoproject.com Python Software Foundation Connecting the Dots: Understanding the PSF’s Current Financial Outlook PSF reports declining revenue, increased costs, and paused grants, urging community support and sponsorships to sustain PyPI, PyCon US, and core Python infrastructure. blogspot.com Wagtail CMS News A new approach to search and more in Wagtail 7.2 With fully revamped search, readability checks, and more, this is a collection of new features you don't want to miss wagtail.org The 2025 State of Django’s top packages The … -
Hitting Limits and Noticing Clues in Graphs
Sometimes the limit you hit when dealing with high traffic on a website isn’t the limit that needs to be raised. We encountered this recently on a site we’re helping to maintain and upgrade. The site has been around since the very early days of Django. It was built back in the days when Apache with mod_wsgi (or even mod_python!) was one of the more common Django deployment environments. -
Cursor vs. Claude for Django Development
This article looks at how Cursor and Claude compare when developing a Django application. -
Thoughts about Django-based content management systems
Thoughts about Django-based content management systems I have almost exclusively used Django for implementing content management systems (and other backends) since 2008. In this time, content management systems have come and gone. The big three systems many years back were django CMS, Mezzanine and our own FeinCMS. During all this time I have always kept an eye open for other CMS than our own but have steadily continued working in my small corner of the Django space. I think it’s time to write down why I have been doing this all this time, for myself and possibly also for other interested parties. Why not use Wagtail, django CMS or any of those alternatives? Let’s start with the big one. Why not use Wagtail? The Django administration interface is actually great. Even though some people say that it should be treated as a tool for developers only, recent improvements to the accessibility and the general usability suggest otherwise. I have written more about my views on this in The Django admin is a CMS. Using and building on top of the Django admin is a great way to immediately profit from all current and future improvements without having to reimplement anything. … -
Weeknotes (2025 week 45)
Weeknotes (2025 week 45) Autumn is nice I love walking through the forest with all the colors and the rustling when you walk through the leaves on the ground. Updated packages since 2025-10-23 feincms3 5.4.3: Small fix for the YouTube IFRAME; it seems that the referrerpolicy attribute is now necessary for the embed to work everywhere. django-json-schema-editor 0.8.2: Allowed forwarding more options to the prose editor component; specifically, not just extensions but also the undocumented js_modules entry. This means that custom extensions are now also supported inside the JSON editor component. django-prose-editor 0.20: I reworked the menu extension to be customizable more easily (you can now specify button groups and dropdowns directly without using JavaScript code) and I also extended the NodeClass extension to allow assigning predefined CSS classes not only to nodes but also to marks. -
PyUtrecht (NL) meetup: streaming telemetry (network monitoring with gRPC and gNMI) - Maurice Stoof
(One of my summaries of the PyUtrecht meetup in Utrecht, NL). "From SNMP to gRPC". Maurice is working on network automation. (The link goes to his github account, the presentation's demo code is there). SNMP, the Simple Network Monitoring Protocol, has been the standard for network monitoring since 1980. But its age is showing. It is polling-pased, which is wasteful. The mechanism will continually poll the endpoints. It is like checking for new messages on your phone every minute instead of relying on push messaging. The better way is streaming telemetry, the push model. He uses gRPC, "A high performance, open source universal RPC framework" and gNMI, "gRPC Network Management Interface". You can ask for capabilities: used in the discovery phase. Get is a simple one-time request for a specific value. With set you can do a bit of configuring. The magic is in subscribe: it creates a persistent connection, allowing the device to continuously stream data back to the client (according to the settings done with "set"). (For the demo, he use pyGMNI, a handy python library for gNMI.) When to use streaming? With high-frequency monitoring. If you need data more frequent than once every 10 seconds. When you … -
PyUtrecht (NL) meetup: the future of Python typing - Victorien Plot
(One of my summaries of the PyUtrecht meetup in Utrecht, NL). Note: Victorien is currently the number one person maintaining Pydantic. Pydantic is basically "dataclasses with validation". There was a show of hands: about 70% uses type hints. Type hints has been around since python 3.5. There have been improvements during the years like str|None instead of Union(str, None) in 3.10, for instance. Something I didn't know: you can always introspect type hints when running your python code: typing.get_type_hints(my_func). Getting typing-related changes into Python takes a lot of work. You need to implemeent the changes in CPython. You have to update the spec. And get it supported by the major type checkers. That's really a difference to typescript, as typing is built-in from the start, there. Something that helps typing in the future is 3.15's lazy from xxx import yyy import. There's an upcoming PEP 764, "inline typed dictionaries": def get_movie() -> {"name": str, "year": int}: # At least something like this ^^^, I can't type that quickly :-) ... He has some suggestions for a new syntax, using something like <{ .... }>, but getting a syntax change into Python takes a lot of talking and a really solid … -
The silent mistake that's slowing down your Django app
Hey, Happy Monday! Why are you getting this: *You signed up to receive this newsletter on Built with Django. I promised to send you the latest projects and jobs on the site as well as any other interesting Django content I encountered during the month. If you don't want to receive this newsletter, feel free to unsubscribe anytime. News and Updates I’ve been dedicating less time to Built with Django unfortunately, but this is not for nothing. I’ve been working on a few side projects. One of them is TuxSEO. I launched on Product Hunt today, so if you could check it out, it would mean the world to me. Made a bunch of upgrades to libraries used and hopefully this should mean smoother website experience. I have a few posts in the making so stay tuned. Trying out a new subject format for the newsletter. Let me know what you think. Sponsors Instead of doing a sponsoring block this week, I want to share a launch of my product: TuxSEO. If you could check it out, it would mean the world to me ❤️ Projects Starminder - GitHub starred project reminder Bank Statement Generators - Your Reliable Partner for … -
Django News - Django 2025 Survey Results and Django's annual fundraiser - Oct 31st 2025
News PyCharm & Django annual fundraiser Boost productivity and contribute to Django initiatives by purchasing PyCharm at a 30% discount while supporting Django Fellows, the DSF Foundation, and many conferences and events including Django Girls. djangoproject.com Django Developers Survey 2025 Results The Django Developer Survey 2025 highlights widespread adoption of recent Django versions, increased async integration, and robust community preferences in tools, testing, and infrastructure. Have thoughts? Share them on the State of Django 2025 forum post. jetbrains.com Django is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) Django Software Foundation has been authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)! This means Django can be more autonomous as part of the process for assigning CVE IDs to vulnerabilities and creating/publishing info about the vulnerability in the associated CVE Record. djangoproject.com 2026 DSF Board Nominations (last call) LAST CALL: If you are interested in helping to support the development of Django we’d enjoy receiving your application for the Board of Directors. Please fill out the 2026 DSF Board Nomination form by 23:59 on October 31, 2025 Anywhere on Earth to be considered. djangoproject.com State of MariaDB 2025 Survey If you use MariaDB with Django, please take a moment to … -
Reliable Django Signals
Django signals are extremely useful for decoupling modules and implementing complicated workflows. However, the underlying transport for signals makes them unreliable and subject to unexpected failures. In this article, I present an alternative transport implementation for Django signals using background tasks which makes them reliable and safer to use in mission critical workflows. Table of Contents A Common Workflow Creating a Payment Process Placing an Order Decoupling Modules Circular Dependency Polling Changes Django Signals Robust Django Signals Django Signals and Database Transactions Fault Tolerance Simulating Failures Atomicity Reliable Execution Django Tasks Using Django Tasks Execute Receivers as Django Tasks Testing Reliable Django Signals Reliable Signals Limitations Future Work Finals Thoughts A Common Workflow Say you have an application that accept payments from users. Usually, you don't go and implement your own payment solution. Instead, you integrate with some 3rd-party provider. Creating a Payment Process This is a common workflow for integrating with a 3rd-party payment provider: You create some payment process in the provider's system You redirect the user to some URL, or you get something to pass to the provider's client SDK Sometime in the future you get notified about the status of the payment, usually by webhook or … -
Django Survey 2025 - Jeff Triplett
🔗 LinksDjango Survey ResultsDjango Fundraising pageDjango Ecosystem PageDEFNA Call for 2027 Venue ProposalsLaravel MCP and Laravel BoostRevSys, Jeff's personal website, and micro blogDjango News newsletterDjango TVDjango Packages📦 Projectsdjango-prodserverAtuin Desktopenvirons📚 BooksWhy Machines LearnEfficient Linux at the Command LineJessie Sima books🎥 YouTubeYouTube Channel: @djangochatSponsorThis episode was brought to you by Buttondown, the easiest way to start, send, and grow your email newsletter. New customers can save 50% off their first year with Buttondown using the coupon code DJANGO. -
Django News - Django 6.0 beta 1 released - Oct 24th 2025
News Django 6.0 beta 1 released Django 6.0 beta 1 is now available. It represents the second stage in the 6.0 release cycle and is an opportunity to try out the changes coming in Django 6.0. djangoproject.com PyCharm & Django annual fundraiser JetBrains and the Django Software Foundation have launched their annual “Buy PyCharm, Support Django” fundraiser, running from October 23 to November 11, 2025, offering 30% off PyCharm with all proceeds donated to support Django’s development and community programs. djangoproject.com Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3 2025! 🎉 Quite a few friends of Django are newly-announced Fellows! blogspot.com CPython Core Dev Sprint 2025 at Arm Cambridge: The biggest one yet For one week, Arm’s Cambridge headquarters became the heart of Python development. Contributors from around the world came together for the CPython Core Developer Sprint. It was the largest gathering in the project’s history, with 35 core developers and 13 invited guests collaborating in person. blogspot.com Updates to Django Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀 Last week we had 26 pull requests merged into Django by 15 different contributors - including 4 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Lev Zlobin, Segni Mekonnen, Augusto … -
Weeknotes (2025 week 43)
Weeknotes (2025 week 43) I published the last weeknotes entry in the first half of September. Drama in OSS I have been following the Ruby gems debacle a bit. Initially at Feinheit we used our own PHP-based framework swisdk2 to build websites. This obviously didn’t scale and I was very annoyed with PHP, so I was looking for alternatives. I remember comparing Ruby on Rails and Django, and decided to switch from PHP/swisdk2 to Python/Django for two reasons: The automatically generated admin interface and the fact that Ruby source code just had too much punctuation characters for my taste. It’s a very whimsical reason and I do not put any weight on that. That being said, given how some of the exponents in Ruby/Rails land behave I’m very very glad to have chosen Python and Django. While not everything is perfect (it never is) at least those communities agree that trying to behave nicely to each other is something to be cheered and not something to be sneered at. Copilot I assigned some GitHub issues to Copilot. The result wasn’t very useful. I don’t know if I want to repeat it, local tools work fine for when I really need … -
My favorite Django packages
My favorite Django packages Inspired by other posts I also wanted to write up a list of my favorite Django packages. Since I’ve been working in this space for so long and since I’m maintaining quite a large list of packages I worry a bit about tooting my own horn too much here; that said, the reasons for choosing some packages hopefully speak for themselves. Also, I’m sure I’m forgetting many many packages here. Sorry for that in advance. Core Django speckenv: Loads environment variables from .env and automatically converts them to their Python equivalent if ast.literal_eval understands it. Also contains implementations for loading database, cache, email and storage configuration from environment variables (similar to dj-database-url). I added this functionality to speckenv when some of the available environment configuration apps’ maintenance state was somewhat questionable. django-cors-headers: CORS header support for Django. This would be a nice addition to Django itself. sentry-sdk: I’m using Sentry in almost all projects. django-template-partials: Template partials for Django! This has been added to the upcoming 6.0 release of Django. While the Django template language has always been evolving and improving, this feels like the first larger step in a long time. As I and others … -
An Introduction of sorts
I realised this week after a short conversation on Mastodon that I haven't ever shared my personal Django journey, so hear goes! As a recent graduate in 2012, I first encounter Django while working at Ocado Technology, tasked with building internal tools for other developers. I was shown the ropes of Django by Ben Cardy (@benbacardi) and Mike Bryant. Essentially this was about putting a frontend to some scripts which would provision users and allow them to upload their ssh keys. This progressed to automating application provisioning with some hackery using the rubypython package if I remember correctly and storing data in an LDAP database. I started using Django 1.4, explored packaging these projects into .deb files, setup an internal pypi instance and tried to created a unified UI package across multiple projects. Finally we did start to open source a few packages on Github. 2015 saw me leave Ocado to join a small charity startup using Django. Here I joined Bruno Alla (@browniebroke) building out a Django application hosted on heroku. For a long time it was just us two as developers, but this eventually grew to a team of 6. Again we published a few packages that we … -
Django on the Med - Paolo Melchiorre
🔗 LinksDjango on the Med and #DjangoOnTheMed hashtagPaolo Melchiorre’s Website and LinkedInMy Django on the Med postDjango GitHub Issues for Django on the Meddjango-rapid and django-boltDjango: One ORM to Rule Them All📦 Projectsdjango-http-compressionbasedpyrightPython 3.14 uuid📚 BooksHow Infrastructure Works by Deb ChachraDjango for Professionals by William VincentMore Everything Forever by Adam Becker🎥 YouTubeYouTube Channel: @djangochatSponsorThis episode was brought to you by HackSoft, your development partner beyond code. From custom software development to consulting, team augmentation, or opening an office in Bulgaria, they’re ready to take your Django project to the next level! -
Async Django: a solution in search of a problem?
A client recently asked me a seemingly simple question: “If we switch our Django backend to run on an ASGI server, will it get faster?” The short answer is no. The slightly longer answer is that switching the server from WSGI to ASGI does nothing on its own. To see any change, you have to start rewriting your views to be async, and even then, the benefits are marginal at best for 99% of web applications. For their specific workload, offloading heavy tasks to a background worker is a far simpler and more effective solution. This conversation got me thinking. My experience with async in the Django ecosystem limited to Django Channels for WebSocket support. It works, but the setup is complex. If I were starting today, I’d probably use Server-Sent Events, or maybe build a tiny, separate WebSocket server in TypeScript and have my Django app post updates to it. Simple, decoupled, and far less cognitive overhead. But I have never used async views, and nobody that I know has used Async Django apart from Channels. No async views or async database calls. So if the performance gains are elusive and the complexity is high, why did the Django … -
Django Chat - Episode 187
A podcast on the Django Web Framework by William Vincent and Carlton Gibson. -
Moving a Domain to Another Registrar
The Situation The domain for my first SaaS project 1st-things-1st.com was registered with GoDaddy. Even though the whole project was already running under my company’s name, I never really bothered to move the domain to my company’s account at Namecheap. Last week I noticed that the domain was about to expire, and I thought, alright, time to finally do it. I had never transferred a domain before, so I wasn’t sure how it would go or whether I could pull it off without any downtime. Here’s how it went. The Story Namecheap has this feature called “Transfer to Us.” You just follow a few simple steps: request a transfer for your domain, enter a one-time Auth code (also called as EPP - Extensible Provisioning Protocol - code) from another registrar to confirm you’re the owner, and pay for another year. At GoDaddy’s side, there was a whole confirmation process to make sure I really wanted to transfer the domain and understood it couldn’t be undone. Once that was done, I got the code I needed for Namecheap. Then came the waiting part. It took almost a week to get the confirmation that the transfer was successful, which was expected according … -
Fixing the `Query` import error while upgrading Wagtail from 5 to 7
While upgrading an old project from Wagtail 5 to 7, I encountered this error: ImportError: cannot import name 'Query' from 'wagtail.search.models' After some searching, I found out what’s wrong. It turns out Wagtail moved the Query model from wagtail.search.models to wagtail.contrib.search_promotions in version 5, but until version 6, you … Read now -
Django News - 2025 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize awarded to Tim Schilling - Oct 17th 2025
News 2025 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize awarded to Tim Schilling The Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize for 2025 was awarded to Tim Schilling. Check out Tim's post about winning it too. djangoproject.com 2026 DSF Board Nominations DSF board nominations are now open, inviting candidates to help shape Django governance, marketing, and global event outreach through strategic leadership. djangoproject.com Python 3.15.0 alpha 1 Python 3.15.0 alpha 1 introduces experimental features including a dedicated profiling package, default UTF-8 encoding, a new PyBytesWriter C API, and improved error messages. blogspot.com Python 3.13.9 is now available! Python 3.13.9 quickly fixes a regression in inspect.getsourcelines when decorators are followed by comments or empty lines, enhancing introspection reliability for modern development. blogspot.com Announcing PSF Community Service Award Recipients! PSF Community Service Awards recognize exemplary Python community contributions with awardees like Katie McLaughlin whose diverse efforts include advancing Django and open source outreach. blogspot.com Updates to Django Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀 Last week we had 9 pull requests merged into Django by 7 different contributors - including 1 first-time contributor! Congratulations to Tim Kamanin for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board! In Django 5.2 it's … -
Make Personal Dashboards with Python Shiny
Conveying meaning using data, Dave will walk through the importance and key features of dashboards. He will also showcase a dashboard he made for a his classical guitar practice using Python Shiny, a tool for building ‘reactive data & AI apps in pure Python,’ according to their website. -
Pycon NL: programming, past and future - Steven Pemberton
(One of my summaries of the Pycon NL one-day conference in Utrecht, NL). (Note: I've heard a keynote by Steven at pygrunn 2016.) Steven is in the python documentary, he co-designed the abc programming language that was the predecessor to python. ABC was a research project that was designed for the programmer's needs. He also was the first user of the open internet in Europe in November 1988, as the CWI at the university had the first 64kbps connection in Europe. Co-designer of html, css, xhtml, rdf, etc. 1988, that's 37 years ago. But only about 30 years earlier, the first municipality (Norwich, UK) got a computer. 21 huge crates. It ran continuously for 10 years. A modern Raspberry pi would take 5 minutes to do the same work! Those early computers were expensive: an hour of programming time was a year's salary for a programmer. So, early programming languages were designed to optimize for the computer. Nowadays, it is the other way around: computers are almost free and programmers are expensive. This hasn't really had an effect on the way we program. He's been working on declarative programming languages. One of the declarative systems is xforms, an xml-based declarative …
