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If you're new to contributing to Django and you're using an LLM, please consider reading this. We want to bring you into the community, but we can't do that only interacting with an LLM's output.
https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/
My favourite piece of internet today is the theory that Jesus was actually a type of yeast.
Turns water into wine
Floats on water
Makes bread for 5000 people
Put in a cave for 3 days and lo - he has risen!
Jesus was a sourdough starter.
Also this would imply: We should be calling him 'Mother' not 'Father'
There are two problems in computer science:
1. We could do this better
2. We should not do this at all
I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.
It was a *really* good app.
New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing
https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/
I'm an old Mac-head at heart, and I've been using Macs since the mid 1990s (the first Mac I used was an LC II with System 7.1 installed on it). I don't tend to think that the computing experience was better in the olden days — sure, there's a thing to be said about the simplicity of older software, but most of my fondness for those days is nostalgia. An exception to that, however, is Apple's Aperture.
"I made a model of the Himalayas."
"To scale?"
"No, just to look at."
I've published a small #Django library to solve a need I had to simply my site's navigation logic in the template, it may be useful to others!
Define your site’s navigation in settings, and simplify your templates.
Features:
➡️ Supports single or multiple navigation menus.
➡️ Automatic active state detection based on URL names or custom logic.
➡️ Conditionally display navigation items based on user permissions or other request attributes.
➡️ Supports nested navigation structures.
🛠️ https://github.com/benbacardi/django-nav-spec
📦 https://pypi.org/project/django-nav-spec/
I'm aware there are other libraries out there that do this, but this one's mine 😉 ideas and suggestions appreciated!
This is also my first time building a package to submit to PyPI using GitHub Actions, which was a fun adventure.
I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.
It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked
Finally got an update to Pendulum out, my iOS app for keeping tabs on the letters you send and receive from your penpals around the world.
A new home design with a map front and centre, Liquid Glass elements for iOS 26, and a couple of new features. Go check it out!
Tim Schilling
Dog Noise Generator
Matt Weagle
Daniel Kennett
AkaSci 🛰️
David Penfold 
JA Westenberg