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🐴 @djangoproject.com blogger and contributor ✍️ Author of three books on Django and Git 🍕 Django London co-organizer 🇬🇧 London / 🇵🇹 Lisbon

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · Jan 28

🎉 Wahoo, I updated my Git book!

This is a free update for all readers, as always, and a good reason to become one if you’re not.

There’s a new chapter, “init and clone”, many extra sections, and it’s updated for the latest Git. 28 new pages for a total of 391!

#Git

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Boost Your Git DX second update out now - Adam Johnson

Today I have released the second update to Boost Your Git DX, my book of developer experience (DX) recommendations for using Git. Since the last update (2024-04-04), it has grown again by 28 pages, fo...

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 18h

Yes! All versions down to 1.8 are available for offline instant search.

Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 1d

This afternoon, I opened a ticket on Django and later closed it as "wontfix", all by myself.

What looked like a regression turned out to be extra protection alerting me to some missing foreign key constraints.

code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36645

#Django

#36645 (PostgreSQL migration regression: `InternalError: cannot drop column id of table ... because other objects depend on it`) – Django

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South Devon Green Party @southdevongreens.bsky.social · 2d

Bringing back hope.

Leader Zack Polanski makes a powerful case for taxing wealth not work in the Green Party's new party political broadcast.

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 2d

Heck yeah

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev · 2d

Just released! 🚀

Please install and enjoy Python 3.14! 🥧

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

#Python #Python314 #release

Two snakes enjoying a pie with 3.14 on the top and π crimping.

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emmatyping @emmatyping.dev · 2d

Python 3.14.0, the first stable release, is out!

And it comes with a spiffy logo! discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

I'm probably biased, but many of the features in 3.14 seem huge to the future of the language:

free-threading stable, subinterpreters, zstandard, too many others to list!

#python

Python 3.14.0 (final) is here!

Python 3.14.0 is now available This is the stable release of Python 3.14.0 Python 3.14.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimis...

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Django London @djangolondon.com · 2d

See you this evening! Remember to bring your laptop 😉

Django London @djangolondon.com · 14d

🚨 Django London is back — Hacktoberfest edition!
🗓️ Oct 7
📍 Kraken Tech (London)
🍕 Free food, no talks — just open source!

No experience needed, just bring your laptop & curiosity.
RSVP: bit.ly/4pEVuXR

#django #python #opensource #hacktoberfest

Django London Meetup October, Tue, Oct 7, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup

**October edition!** This month we are going to have a **Hacktoberfest edition**! Our key concepts will be: * Encourage people to contribute to open source. * Increase th

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 2d

🚀 django-upgrade 1.29.0 is out!

It ships 4 new fixers for Django 6.0, to help ease the upgrade for this new version expected in December.

Test out Django 6.0 alpha today and use django-upgrade to automatically update some of your code!

django-upgrade.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ch...

#Django

Changelog - django-upgrade 1.29.0 documentation

django-upgrade.readthedocs.io

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 3d

Oh that’s a shame. I guess only certain stuff will ship well…

Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 3d

🏁 django-stubs 5.2.6 is out!

Little by little, Django gets easier to type check, thanks to some pretty dedicated and fearless contributors.

github.com/typeddjango/...

#Django

Releases · typeddjango/django-stubs

PEP-484 stubs for Django. Contribute to typeddjango/django-stubs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 3d

Do they sell Colin the Caterpillars??

Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 5d

You'll need to add "lazy" keywords to speed it up, if this goes ahead.

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 6d

Huge PEP

Thomas Wouters @yhg1s.bsky.social · 6d

Let me post a *non*-subskeet for once... We made a thing!

discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex...

#Python #PEP

PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports

👋 Hi everyone, We are very exited to share with you PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports: We’re proposing an opt-in lazy import syntax that defers module loading until first use, aiming for faster startup,...

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djangochat.bsky.social @djangochat.bsky.social · 8d

Ep186 with Django Fellow Jacob Walls is live!

We talk about his background, transitioning from music to programming, what to expect in Django 6.0 this December, and more.

djangochat.com/episodes/dja...

Also available on YouTube if you prefer: youtu.be/P-D7DtGJqzY?...

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 12d

You can now read and search the Django 6.0 documentation offline with DevDocs!

devdocs.io/django~6.0/

#Django

DevDocs — Django 6.0 documentation

Django 6.0 API documentation with instant search, offline support, keyboard shortcuts, mobile version, and more.

devdocs.io

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Anže @anze3db.pecar.me · 14d

I'll be giving a talk about Free-threaded Python at the #01 - Python Lisbon Meetup next week (Oct 2)! 🎉

Hope to see you there!

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#01 - PyLM Meetup at Técnico 🎓🐍, Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup

🇵🇹 Vamos encontrar-nos no dia **2 de outubro às 19:00 no IST, Pavilhão de Matemática, sala 3.10**! Desta vez teremos uma sala com projetor, por isso preparem-se para uma

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 14d

Wow, incredible pics. Have fun!

Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 16d

✍️ New post introducing django-watchfiles, a package to make Django’s runserver autoreloading more efficient.

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#Django #Python

Django: Introducing django-watchfiles, for more efficient runserver autoreloading - Adam Johnson

Django’s runserver automatically reloads when you change Python files. Without this autoreloading feature, you’d need to manually restart the server every time you made a code change.

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 19d

who is responsible for?? …I want one

Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 21d

django-minify-html, django-mysql, django-perf-rec, django-permissions-policy, django-read-only, django-rich, django-version-checks, django-watchfiles, heroicons, inline-snapshot-django, whitenoise

Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 21d

🚀 Django 6.0 alpha 1 is out, so let's start testing against it!

I’ve just released versions of these 17 packages with Django 6.0 support:

django-auto-prefetch, django-browser-reload, django-cors-headers, django-harlequin, django-htmx, django-linear-migrations, …

Enjoy!

#Django #Python

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 27d

Haha, it turns out the LLM test SWE-Bench uses Django, and agents have been caught solving a bug fix by using git log to copy what Mariusz did! 😂

github.com/SWE-bench/SW...

#Django #AI

Repo State Loopholes During Agentic Evaluation · Issue #465 · SWE-bench/SWE-bench

We've identified multiple loopholes with SWE Bench Verified where agents may look at future repository state (by querying it directly or through a variety of methods), and cases in which future rep...

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 27d

🕸️ Just released django-htmx 1.24.1, which bundles htmx 2.0.7 that came out earlier today.

This is a small but valuable bugfix release!

github.com/bigskysoftwa...

#django #htmx

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 28d

Word on the street is there’s a related Easter egg for python 3.14 virtual environments

Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 29d

- unittest-parametrize
- whitenoise