Django Web Studio
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Hi, I am Gerald, CEO of Django Web Studio. We are specialists in the web framework Django, hence the name, but more importantly we help companies manage their SaaS platforms. From helping design product roadmaps to user support, and the other way round!
Many people are opposed to AI for many different reasons. They might worry about copyright, how AI floods the internet. They might worry about their job.
All valid concerns. But there are others.
I was always cavalier about the danger of AI. But maybe I should start paying attention.
All valid concerns. But there are others.
I was always cavalier about the danger of AI. But maybe I should start paying attention.
Those warnings about the dangers of AI, can they be taken at all seriously?
I sometimes think that there’s a lot of fear-mongering going on in AI safety circles. But maybe they’re on to something after all.
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January 6, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Many people are opposed to AI for many different reasons. They might worry about copyright, how AI floods the internet. They might worry about their job.
All valid concerns. But there are others.
I was always cavalier about the danger of AI. But maybe I should start paying attention.
All valid concerns. But there are others.
I was always cavalier about the danger of AI. But maybe I should start paying attention.
In this the first Good New Sunday of the new year I’ve just one good news item. Or I have many, depending how you look at it.
I cite from an article in Der Spiegel on how much better 2025 was than we might think. From behind their paywall. And isn’t that Good News in itself?
I cite from an article in Der Spiegel on how much better 2025 was than we might think. From behind their paywall. And isn’t that Good News in itself?
Good News Sunday: Happy New Year!
Not. This year has started badly, with the US asserting its power for whatever reason. Here’s some cheer anyway.
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January 4, 2026 at 1:40 PM
In this the first Good New Sunday of the new year I’ve just one good news item. Or I have many, depending how you look at it.
I cite from an article in Der Spiegel on how much better 2025 was than we might think. From behind their paywall. And isn’t that Good News in itself?
I cite from an article in Der Spiegel on how much better 2025 was than we might think. From behind their paywall. And isn’t that Good News in itself?
The AI we use daily is an enormous achievement. In our small software company, it has permeated into the tiniest details of our workflow.
What every professional realises very quickly though, is that AI fails utterly in creativity.
Here’s my take on how AI might overcome its failings.
What every professional realises very quickly though, is that AI fails utterly in creativity.
Here’s my take on how AI might overcome its failings.
AI is like anything else. It’s not the invention that counts, it’s what you do with it.
We learned to control fire, then to cook with it. Control our larynx, then to talk with it. What are we going to do with AI?
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January 3, 2026 at 1:19 PM
The AI we use daily is an enormous achievement. In our small software company, it has permeated into the tiniest details of our workflow.
What every professional realises very quickly though, is that AI fails utterly in creativity.
Here’s my take on how AI might overcome its failings.
What every professional realises very quickly though, is that AI fails utterly in creativity.
Here’s my take on how AI might overcome its failings.
In this week’s Good News Sunday more love for the city of Christchurch NZ, love for tiny pakahē chicks, love for high life expectancy and experience, and love for tiny robot rovers on the surface of Mars.
Good News Sunday: Christchurch is haunted but vibrant, miracle chick, old people have a future…
More good news stories. We’ll be talking about the perseverance of my home town, Christchurch NZ, the perseverance of an almost extinct NZ…
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December 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
In this week’s Good News Sunday more love for the city of Christchurch NZ, love for tiny pakahē chicks, love for high life expectancy and experience, and love for tiny robot rovers on the surface of Mars.
Not too long ago, small and medium-sized businesses managed their own networks and their own data. The satisfying hum of servers in the IT department is one of my fondest memories.
If it’s up to Big SaaS that world will never return. But now, coding agents are making ownership possible again.
If it’s up to Big SaaS that world will never return. But now, coding agents are making ownership possible again.
Your SaaS subscriptions are eating up your company budget.
The software-as-a-service goliaths are losing out now that companies are discovering how to succeed without them.
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December 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Not too long ago, small and medium-sized businesses managed their own networks and their own data. The satisfying hum of servers in the IT department is one of my fondest memories.
If it’s up to Big SaaS that world will never return. But now, coding agents are making ownership possible again.
If it’s up to Big SaaS that world will never return. But now, coding agents are making ownership possible again.
It’s a familiar story. You’re moving house, you’ve packed up everything. Then you suddenly realise you’ve an attic full of fond memories you haven’t thought of in years.
Your whole life is in there, but the removal van is chocka. Wouldn’t it be great if it would all fit on your phone?
Your whole life is in there, but the removal van is chocka. Wouldn’t it be great if it would all fit on your phone?
That grand idea for our company has one fatal flaw. Me.
I’m the founder, the CEO and the CTO. That’s far too much “me”. Let’s get AI to build a pseudo-me.
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December 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It’s a familiar story. You’re moving house, you’ve packed up everything. Then you suddenly realise you’ve an attic full of fond memories you haven’t thought of in years.
Your whole life is in there, but the removal van is chocka. Wouldn’t it be great if it would all fit on your phone?
Your whole life is in there, but the removal van is chocka. Wouldn’t it be great if it would all fit on your phone?
Some are interested in detail, intricacy, and science. You might call them nerds. Others are interested in the big picture, and you might call them builders. But AI is driving the nerds away from traditional software. And we need both.
Senior programmers are giving up on software development, but not why you might think.
Developers who are particularly interested in syntax, structure and architecture are moving into areas that AI hasn’t yet penetrated.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Some are interested in detail, intricacy, and science. You might call them nerds. Others are interested in the big picture, and you might call them builders. But AI is driving the nerds away from traditional software. And we need both.
Today is winter solstice in my part of the world. Humans from times immemorial have celebrated this day as the turning point of the year, from the bleakness of winter towards the fruit of spring and summer.
I wish it was so easy.
Here’s some good news to warm you while you wait for redemption.
I wish it was so easy.
Here’s some good news to warm you while you wait for redemption.
Good News Sunday: money for Ukraine, alone on Christmas Day, Danish letterboxes, and other Good…
In this week’s Good News Sunday, stories about how the EU is supporting Ukraine, how California is supporting the environment, how those…
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December 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Today is winter solstice in my part of the world. Humans from times immemorial have celebrated this day as the turning point of the year, from the bleakness of winter towards the fruit of spring and summer.
I wish it was so easy.
Here’s some good news to warm you while you wait for redemption.
I wish it was so easy.
Here’s some good news to warm you while you wait for redemption.
Please forgive me this rant about how great my coding agent is.
My coding agent and I built a feature in 30 minutes.
We built an interactive interface for our internal reporting tool in the time our competitors have their lunch break.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Please forgive me this rant about how great my coding agent is.
I use AI for research, for snippets. And I have autocomplete turned on. All the time.
I write to be understood, and for that I need all the help I can get.
I write to be understood, and for that I need all the help I can get.
We write like an AI even when we’re not using AI to write.
Already, there’s a marked change in writing style, influenced by AI and autocomplete.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I use AI for research, for snippets. And I have autocomplete turned on. All the time.
I write to be understood, and for that I need all the help I can get.
I write to be understood, and for that I need all the help I can get.
In this week’s Good News Sunday, we have some firey good news that’s about 400,000 years old, a museum that’s 225 years old is finally to give birth to a spinoff, and Dick Van Dyke, star os TV series we watched as kids, has turned 100 years old. But we’re not old. Oh no.
Good News Sunday: stories around the fire, a new Dutch museum, and Dick Van Dyke turns 100.
This week I’ve again found some good news stories that may lighten your heart in the face of so much grief and suffering in the world.
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December 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
In this week’s Good News Sunday, we have some firey good news that’s about 400,000 years old, a museum that’s 225 years old is finally to give birth to a spinoff, and Dick Van Dyke, star os TV series we watched as kids, has turned 100 years old. But we’re not old. Oh no.
Trump’s rant against the European Union has gotten some on my side of the Atlantic spooked.
But while the White House seems to want us back to the free capitalism world of poisoned air, poisoned water, and poisoned minds, the EU has other plans.
But while the White House seems to want us back to the free capitalism world of poisoned air, poisoned water, and poisoned minds, the EU has other plans.
Is the European Union’s AI Act killing EU Artificial Intelligence in the bud?
Trump wants to rid US AI of all restrictions while China’s state-driven AI is surging ahead. Is the EU the loser? Or THE benchmark for…
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December 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Trump’s rant against the European Union has gotten some on my side of the Atlantic spooked.
But while the White House seems to want us back to the free capitalism world of poisoned air, poisoned water, and poisoned minds, the EU has other plans.
But while the White House seems to want us back to the free capitalism world of poisoned air, poisoned water, and poisoned minds, the EU has other plans.
Lately, it’s become more and more apparent that AI companies are causing issues when crawling our clients websites.
They’re eating up CPU cycles big time. But contrary to traditional search engine indexers, AI crawlers deliver our clients nothing.
They’re eating up CPU cycles big time. But contrary to traditional search engine indexers, AI crawlers deliver our clients nothing.
AI is after your language not your content.
You may think that OpenAI crawling your website is somehow good for your business. You’d be wrong.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Lately, it’s become more and more apparent that AI companies are causing issues when crawling our clients websites.
They’re eating up CPU cycles big time. But contrary to traditional search engine indexers, AI crawlers deliver our clients nothing.
They’re eating up CPU cycles big time. But contrary to traditional search engine indexers, AI crawlers deliver our clients nothing.
We’re a small software company. Specialised in Django, but we also do frontend frameworks, like Next’s. And as a company, we have a website, and a blog.
Recently a new cyber threat surfaced, and of course we were on it for our clients. But we fixed our own blog just a little too late…
Recently a new cyber threat surfaced, and of course we were on it for our clients. But we fixed our own blog just a little too late…
AI-powered cybercrime is eating up our servers, and our sanity.
We cleaned up a bot that was using 100% of our cpu to mine coin. The intruder was let in in by React2Shell.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We’re a small software company. Specialised in Django, but we also do frontend frameworks, like Next’s. And as a company, we have a website, and a blog.
Recently a new cyber threat surfaced, and of course we were on it for our clients. But we fixed our own blog just a little too late…
Recently a new cyber threat surfaced, and of course we were on it for our clients. But we fixed our own blog just a little too late…
In this week’s Good News Sunday, we celebrate Frank Gehry, legendary architect, who passed at 96, a child prodigy who’s just 3, and New Zealand finally getting their very own Ikea after being on the waitlist for 80 years.
Good News Sunday: The Flatpack Has Landed
Ikea finally reaches the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand, three-year-old becomes chess champion, and we celebrate the world and work of…
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December 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In this week’s Good News Sunday, we celebrate Frank Gehry, legendary architect, who passed at 96, a child prodigy who’s just 3, and New Zealand finally getting their very own Ikea after being on the waitlist for 80 years.
We might already be using AI a lot, but for those involved in foundational research, we’re just skimming the surface. The ultimate goal is Superintelligence, or what is otherwise called AGI.
This is me trying to understand what it is, and what’s in in for us little people.
This is me trying to understand what it is, and what’s in in for us little people.
What does Ilya Sutskever mean by “AI going well?”
Let’s build a superintelligence that doesn’t destroy us.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We might already be using AI a lot, but for those involved in foundational research, we’re just skimming the surface. The ultimate goal is Superintelligence, or what is otherwise called AGI.
This is me trying to understand what it is, and what’s in in for us little people.
This is me trying to understand what it is, and what’s in in for us little people.
Like many of my generation, a substantial part of my intellectual upbringing was religion. Yes, I now consider myself an atheist, but formative years are not called formative for nothing.
Religion is a strong force that continues underground even when you think it might be conquered.
Religion is a strong force that continues underground even when you think it might be conquered.
Ray Kurzweil, Ilya Sutskever, Venture Capital, and the concept of heaven.
Tech-optimists envision a perfect future where a benevolent AI cares for us all. And makes a lot of money.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Like many of my generation, a substantial part of my intellectual upbringing was religion. Yes, I now consider myself an atheist, but formative years are not called formative for nothing.
Religion is a strong force that continues underground even when you think it might be conquered.
Religion is a strong force that continues underground even when you think it might be conquered.
Am I a music lover? I used to be. As a student, there was little else to talk about. Too young for the Stones and The Beatles, we were on about Velvet Underground, the Sex Pistols, Style Council, Einstürzende Neubauten.
That music is made behind a computer is no news. But now, increasingly, by AI.
That music is made behind a computer is no news. But now, increasingly, by AI.
Very soon, everyone will recognise AI-generated marketing and ignore it. Then what?
But the opposite might be true. People will recognise it’s AI but still like it. And buy.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Am I a music lover? I used to be. As a student, there was little else to talk about. Too young for the Stones and The Beatles, we were on about Velvet Underground, the Sex Pistols, Style Council, Einstürzende Neubauten.
That music is made behind a computer is no news. But now, increasingly, by AI.
That music is made behind a computer is no news. But now, increasingly, by AI.
This Good News Sunday, a nasty museum guide that does a museum good, a poor country that has the worlds best performing beverage packaging recycling programme, and a politician who is making the news for something personal.
Good News Sunday: when first impressions deceive
The unexpected often makes you feel uneasy, but sometimes it warms your heart. Or just makes you feel good.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This Good News Sunday, a nasty museum guide that does a museum good, a poor country that has the worlds best performing beverage packaging recycling programme, and a politician who is making the news for something personal.
Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of OpenAI, is now leading Safe Superintelligence Inc.
The goal is to create superintelligence capable of solving all our problems.
But you don’t have to be smart to realise that we don’t need superintelligence for that. Just consensus and perseverance.
The goal is to create superintelligence capable of solving all our problems.
But you don’t have to be smart to realise that we don’t need superintelligence for that. Just consensus and perseverance.
What’s Ilya Sutskever’s superintelligence supposed to do for us anyway?
Feed the hungry? Solve world peace? We could do that all ourselves.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of OpenAI, is now leading Safe Superintelligence Inc.
The goal is to create superintelligence capable of solving all our problems.
But you don’t have to be smart to realise that we don’t need superintelligence for that. Just consensus and perseverance.
The goal is to create superintelligence capable of solving all our problems.
But you don’t have to be smart to realise that we don’t need superintelligence for that. Just consensus and perseverance.
I like to think of myself as relatively creative, but a recent encounter with My AI reminded me that I’m actually just another single-minded old guy.
I asked if AI could replace advanced frontend frameworks like React and I was surprised by the…
The way My AI answered what I thought was a serious question caught me totally off guard.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I like to think of myself as relatively creative, but a recent encounter with My AI reminded me that I’m actually just another single-minded old guy.
The digital marketing archive we built for our client is one of the linchpins of their success. Now we’ve come up with an idea to take it to the next level.
We built a chatbot that can create new campaigns out of 35 years of marketing history.
To put a digital archive to good use is easier than it might seem. For next to nothing in time and effort. And money.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The digital marketing archive we built for our client is one of the linchpins of their success. Now we’ve come up with an idea to take it to the next level.
Some weeks are golden. Most are not.
This week, with the US once again demanding Ukraine surrender, a COP30 just barely making a deal, weak as it is, and the turmoil and uncertainty in business and in life, was again awash with anguish.
But here’s some specks of gold I found in the pan.
This week, with the US once again demanding Ukraine surrender, a COP30 just barely making a deal, weak as it is, and the turmoil and uncertainty in business and in life, was again awash with anguish.
But here’s some specks of gold I found in the pan.
Good News Sunday: someone found a Rembrandt in a pile of junk.
We’ve had a lot to endure this week. But here’s to the specks of gold panned at a riverside bend.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Some weeks are golden. Most are not.
This week, with the US once again demanding Ukraine surrender, a COP30 just barely making a deal, weak as it is, and the turmoil and uncertainty in business and in life, was again awash with anguish.
But here’s some specks of gold I found in the pan.
This week, with the US once again demanding Ukraine surrender, a COP30 just barely making a deal, weak as it is, and the turmoil and uncertainty in business and in life, was again awash with anguish.
But here’s some specks of gold I found in the pan.
Every time I ask My AI a question, I am astounded by the length of their answer. I get whole essays to comprehend.
Millions use AI. Millions upon millions, even. Each interaction adding to the global data store. It won’t end well.
Millions use AI. Millions upon millions, even. Each interaction adding to the global data store. It won’t end well.
Artificial Intelligence is producing content at an astounding rate. What are we to do with it?
For every question I ask, My AI produces 10 pages of text. Millions use AI. Do the math.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Every time I ask My AI a question, I am astounded by the length of their answer. I get whole essays to comprehend.
Millions use AI. Millions upon millions, even. Each interaction adding to the global data store. It won’t end well.
Millions use AI. Millions upon millions, even. Each interaction adding to the global data store. It won’t end well.
We’re a small software company using AI coding agents big time. But as we use them more, the costs are rising.
I wonder, given that the coding agent companies that we’re using are startups, and startups tend to lose money as they, well, start up, how much does it really cost to run a coding agent?
I wonder, given that the coding agent companies that we’re using are startups, and startups tend to lose money as they, well, start up, how much does it really cost to run a coding agent?
How much does it REALLY cost to run an AI coding agent?
The cost of using AI for coding is closer to a human than you might think.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
We’re a small software company using AI coding agents big time. But as we use them more, the costs are rising.
I wonder, given that the coding agent companies that we’re using are startups, and startups tend to lose money as they, well, start up, how much does it really cost to run a coding agent?
I wonder, given that the coding agent companies that we’re using are startups, and startups tend to lose money as they, well, start up, how much does it really cost to run a coding agent?