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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 14h

"As you can see this admin UI is… brutally developer-focused" 🤣 @tomd.org at #WagtailSpace talking about Mux, the "ffmpeg in the cloud"

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 15h

Hope #WagtailSpace attendees liked my presentation! Recording is available already if you register at wagtail.org/wagtail-spac.... Slides are here: wagtail.org/sow

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 1d

Is it a new thing that macOS "find and select text in images" also makes that text available… for the VoiceOver screen reader. That’s an #accessibility feature right, not a bug? Spotted on the @wagtail homepage video: wagtail.org

Screenshot of Safari VoiceOver interface with "Meet" highlighted on a video player with word "Meet Wagtail"

Screenshot of Safari Elements panel with shadow DOM HTML for video element

Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 6d

Ooh @usher.dev @laymonage.com there’s a little story right there via the commit activity graphs!

wagtail-ai vs django-ai-core contribution graphs in GitHub, showing a spike in wagtail-ai followed by slowdown, while django-ai-core has a spike starting right after

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone up for helping Tom and I run the 2026 DSF Board elections? forum.djangoproject.com/t/preparatio... No one’s volunteered for this yet, which I’ll take it to mean you all trust us to do a great job 😛 feedback would be nice though!

Preparations for 2026 DSF Board elections

👋 we’re preparing for the next Board elections of the Django Software Foundation and we could use help! Our plans We will run the elections of the 2026 Board of Directors over the next three…

forum.djangoproject.com

Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 11d

Dans trois jours à Paris – “le futur de Django” 🚀 www.meetup.com/django-paris... au meetup Django Paris à Octopus Energy 🇫🇷 30 minutes de franglais, venez, ça va être super! #Django #WagtailCMS #Franglais

2025 September Meetup, Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Hi there! Long time no see! It is time for a Django Meetup! 💼 Once again, a great moment to meet people and speak about dev topics and of course Django! ✨ ***Talks*** **

www.meetup.com

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Wagtail @wagtail.org · 13d

Heads’up – we have new guidance for AI-led contributions from our core team: wagtail.org/blog/guidanc... TL;DR; let us know how AI is involved in PRs with a disclaimer!

Guidance for AI-led contributions | Wagtail CMS

New contributor guidelines in the generative AI age

wagtail.org

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 14d

OH @laymonage.com "I wish I could npm install wagtail" 💥 at the @torchbox tech day

Sage on stage with a slide "Wagtail UI for U and I … and AI

Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 14d

Another option I’ve seen occasionally is "ask people to run your analysis script on their projects and share results". Yet another type of bias in the data so not suitable for much of anything. Anyway, I think "top 8000 PyPI" is a pretty good pick for this specific analysis! ⭐️ ty for the context

Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 14d

re corporate codebases, I guess the simplest I’d have thought is open source code on GitHub? Select repos on GitHub based on number of stars or activity levels. I have a small dataset of @wagtail.org projects for that reason.

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 14d

ty! yeah my assumption is packages probs have more scrutiny on avg than apps, so probs if your analysis shows a clear enough problem with top packages, it’d only be worse with other packages, and with apps? No hard data to validate my assumption but seems intuitive enough.

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 14d

I really liked your talk, hope it’s ok to ask a bonus question! I wanted to ask how/why you selected the code of the "top 8000 PyPI packages" as a dataset to analyze? Why PyPI packages and why top 8000? Feels valid but skewed towards packages, and specifically ones that have more scrutiny than avg

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 14d

one of the questions Jake got started with "this isn’t a question more of a comment" 💯💥 someone knows what they’re doing

Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 14d

Ticket #36389 gets a shout-out!

Jake on stage next to a slide about ticket 36389

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 14d

Oh noes, @theorangeone.net is at it again, tricking Django at the @torchbox.com tech day 💥

Jake on stage next to a slide titled "Tricking Django"

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 18d

“I’ve spent hours troubleshooting issues. It’s always DNS” 🤣 Jayrup at #PyConUK on self-hosting jayrup.me

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Django @djangoproject.com · 18d

Our Django tasks contributor @theorangeone.net on stage at #PyConUK dives into some of the low-level design choices in the upcoming tasks support in Django 6.0 ⭐️

Jake on stage with a slide about threads

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · 18d

My @pyconuk.org talk is done! 🥳 Now I can enjoy the rest of the conference!

(Slides and recording to follow)

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 18d

Feud starting on who has the best stickers at #PyConUK - Becky says it’s Django Girls 💥

Becky on stage introducing day two, with a Young Coders Day slide

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 19d

“Nothing is inevitable” – @cj.shearwood.games #PyConUK

CJ on stage, with a slide "A Computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision"

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 19d

Today I’m at #PyConUK 🐝 I’d love to chat about AI challenges, environmental impact of tech, accessibility in the Python world. Bonus points for all three in the same convo. Come say hi! I’ll be wearing a hoodie with pineapples 🍍

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 25d

With our flagship Wagtail Space event coming up soon (wagtail.org/wagtail-spac...), this is the best time to get involved with Wagtail!. Looking forward to the crossover Djangonaut Space @ Wagtail Space 🤯

Wagtail Space 2025 | Wagtail CMS

Wagtail Space is a a free, flexible, three-day virtual event for people who are improving the world through code and content.

wagtail.org

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 25d

was fun doing that with others! ☺️

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 28d

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

#DjangoCon @djangocon.us

Thibaud hooks his laptop up while Afi introduces them and Frank, Paolo, and Jacob talk behind her

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 25d

Later this month I will be mentoring new @wagtail.org contributors as part of @djangonaut.space! 🐦️🚀 Applications for participants close soon, you should totally join: djangonaut.space/sessions/ #Django #OpenSource

Djangonaut Space - Where contributors launch!

Djangonaut Space is a contributor mentorship program placing an emphasis on group-learning, sustainability and longevity.

djangonaut.space

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