Next month (October) for #djangosocial in #cambridge we're having some sweet treats at Heavenly Desserts! 🍮

See you there!

https://luma.com/35yk8uce

Happy Friday folks! I think https://djangoprobe.org/ is ready enough. I'd like to try collecting what parts of Django people use in their projects. I haven't built the reporting side of things yet, but that's next.

Let me know what you think!

#Django

Hey friends! Got laid off today in an effort to "rightsize" the company. I hate that word. Anyway, lucky for you, that means I'm looking for work!

If you have anything you think I'd be interested in, please let me know!

#python #django

🎙️ In Progress: Week 91
📄 A weekly update on current projects and learnings.
🔗 https://softwarecrafts.co.uk/in-progress/week-91
#podcast,#weekly-standup

Are you interested in contributing to BeeWare, Django, or other Python projects, but feel like you need a little support?

Check-out Djangonaut Space! We'll be hosting a BeeWare team for Session 7. You can read up on all the details at the link above. We'd love to have you!

Applications are open until September 6th for the upcoming session: https://djangonaut.space/sessions/2026-session-7/

@paulox @ehmatthes @janraasch

Some of my thoughts on deployment, probably a part 2 is due once I go through Will's talk from DjangoConUS

📣 Django and deployments
📄 Is it time for Django to have a deployment API...
🔗 https://softwarecrafts.co.uk/100-words/day-311
#100_words,#django,#deployment,#management_commands,#api

Last minute(ish) - next week Django Social in Cambridge - we're doing a Pub meetup

https://luma.com/e1yvnom1

More importantly we're going to stick to the 2nd Wednesday of the month for now in the evening - see the event description for more!

Hope to see you there!

🎙️ In Progress: Week 90
📄 This week, I'm reflecting on a break-filled week and diving back into work, with a focus on streamlining compliance processes for Hamilton Rock, improving card pages for Hamilton Rock, and wrapping up testing and GSoC mentoring.
🔗 https://softwarecrafts.co.uk/in-progress/week-90
#podcast,#weekly-standup

📣 Building large features for Django
📄 The architecture of a modern Django feature
🔗 https://softwarecrafts.co.uk/100-words/day-310
#100_words,#django,#gsoc,#contribution

🎙️ In Progress: Week 89
📄 In this episode, I'm discussing the challenges of developing an API for Hamilton Rock, getting sidetracked by a new package idea, and catching up on company admin and fundraising preparation, while also sharing my experiences with work layout experimentation using Herder.
🔗 https://softwarecrafts.co.uk/in-progress/week-89
#podcast,#weekly-standup

@carlton nevermind found them 😊

@carlton quick question: is mantle (& mantle-drf) part of your experiment with a different contribution model?

I'm looking for repos and finding nothing so I assume the above to be the case?

Adding my first API to Hamilton Rock #django project, which means I'm getting to try out django-mantle for the first time!

So far so good and I have possible a plain API view layer to pair with it as I didn't want to install DRF (...yet?).

🎙️ In Progress: Week 88
📄 In this episode, I reflect on the past week's celebrations with my family, discuss my company's compliance process improvements, share updates on various projects including private company onboarding for Adidas and work with Hamilton Rock, and outline plans for upgrading my personal workflow setup.
🔗 https://softwarecrafts.co.uk/in-progress/week-88
#podcast,#weekly-standup

I'm considering my first API for this project which has been templates to date, it's a small back office API for some automation of feature flags.

I already have attrs/cattrs as serialisation. Opinions of what I chose here?

#django

Thinking about building a little cli tool as I'm considering moving to Ghostty from iterm2 (after listening to the last 2024 changelog episode - my podcast backlog is huge I know!)

Anyway I'm also considering this a chance to learn a new language. Let me know which I should pick!

If it's something else reply to me and let me know!

Call for applicants for a Django Executive Director https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/06/call-for-applicants-for-a-django-executive-directo/

🎙️ In Progress: Week 87
📄 In this episode, I'm sharing the ups and downs of my week as I balance work and personal life, including planning our 10th wedding anniversary celebration and tackling various client projects and compliance submissions.
🔗 https://softwarecrafts.co.uk/in-progress/week-87
#podcast,#weekly-standup

🎙️ In Progress: Week 86
📄 In this episode, I reflect on last week's progress, including updates to Blip Tracker and a major epiphany around our compliance workflow.
🔗 https://softwarecrafts.co.uk/in-progress/week-86
#podcast,#weekly-standup