Ugh, why oh why does the new mastodon web UI scroll all the way to the right when I first load it? Am I holding this wrong?

#Django Probe is at 99 projects, anyone want to tip that over to triple digits? https://djangoprobe.org/

Ah, GitHub is previewing a new PR overview page / UX... Hold onto your butts.

On Tuesday Nov 24th, I'll be at IndyPy (hosted by @sixfeetup) presenting "What's new in the Django community?" Spoiler, it's going to consist of a bunch of questions and for each question the audience gets right, I'll make a donation to the DSF. If you like Django, trick questions or snarky, self-deprecating humor, come join!

It's a hybrid event, so as long as you're awake you can join in and participate. Please register ahead of time though.

https://www.meetup.com/indypy/events/311855037/ #Django #Python

Some fun #Django numbers for you:
- 22,000 published Django packages on PyPI
- 9,000 have had 5+ releases
- 4,300 have had a release in the last three years
- 2,800 have had a release in the last year
- 725 / 9000 packages list a maintainer email
- 450 unique maintainer email addresses

This article from @be_haki is absolute gold 🪙. https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-get-or-create The linked articles about concurrency and #django model concurrency are excellent as well.

But "How to Get or Create in PostgreSQL" goes through a variety of approaches, explains various gotchas and things you may need to consider. If you're needing to dabble in handling concurrency with #PostgreSQL, it's worth a read.

I'm a big fan of the show Community and I see "darkest timeline" references frequently, but where are the brightest timeline mentions?!

I wrote about why I believe the Django community is in one currently, specifically around adding new features. If you sit and look at the tools and processes being built, we're headed in a fantastic direction.

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/10/18/djangos-brightest-timeline/

#Django #Python

Part of that funding definition is a process to allow any Django Commons package to have their own Open Collective project.

https://django-commons.org/funding/open-collective/

What this means is that any project can do their own fundraising. Be it a monthly maintenance fee or raising funds for a future version of a project. 💸

Django Commons has been making significant governance changes to better support the community-maintained #Python and #Django packages.

https://django-commons.org/blog/posts/2026-10-14-policy-changes-for-better-community-maintenance/

- We now allow dormant and archived projects
- Identified a trust ladder for taking over as maintainer for said projects
- Adopted a default security policy

The other major thing we've defined are the variety of ways a project can be funded!

Oohhh, we had 4 new projects start sharing since yesterday. And we have our first on a version < 5.2 🤩 All are on Python 3.13+ which is kind of wild.

https://djangoprobe.org/stats/

Keep signing up! #Django

And we're live! https://djangoprobe.org/stats/ This page contains basic stats on how projects use Django.

I realized sort of late that I needed an allow list on all the APIs that are shown in the reports. That sort of puts a damper on the idea of supporting a broader set of Python/Django packages, but doesn't make it impossible either.

It's a small sample size (21 projects), but `transaction.atomic` is used in 76% of projects and `JSONResponse` in 52% of projects.

#Django #Python

Shout out to @Stormheg for his wonderful service as a Django Commons Admin. Thank you!

https://django-commons.org/blog/2026/09/21/thank-you-storm/

#Django

Classic 11pm Saturday night post: I'm looking for someone who actually likes how they validate unique constraints in a #Django form / view. I keep running into needing to wrap the save method in an atomic block and then adjust the form's errors. It's gross.

I strongly suspect I'm doing something wrong.

Roland has something to tell you today. #Caturday

The @talkpython episode with @carlton is great. They covered so many topics about async in Django and Python, it's definitely worth people's time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1WXYE1Wjzo

We're at the end of the originally scheduled Nifty Django Feature series 🥳

To celebrate, this iteration is the hackiest of them all. Using the Index class to define custom schema migration operations. 🤪

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/09/02/nifty-feature-use-index-for-custom-migrations/

#Django

RE: https://indieweb.social/@djangonaut/117151063598332639

Such a cool map!

This week's nifty #Django feature is counting on multiple columns via a Subquery subclass.

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/08/19/nifty-feature-counting-on-multiple-columns/

This is a good example of how Django's ORM provides a flexible API that allows us to customize existing expressions to do exactly what we want.

Are you running #Django 6+ and using the fancy Django Tasks framework? Welp the Django Debug Toolbar now (7.1.0) has a tasks panel for all your debugging quests.

https://django-debug-toolbar.readthedocs.io/en/latest/panels.html#tasks

Shout out to onxxdatas and @codingjoe for bringing that to life!

Not sure if people are aware, but there's been an increase in #GitHub suspending accounts. When this happens, their created issues disappear because the account is effectively disappeared. Beyond that, when it happens to a person who is a sole maintainer of a project, the impact is extremely high. We've seen at least two #Django community members have this happen to them in the last six months. I hadn't heard of this happening in my N years before that.