Announcing the 2026 Django Developers Survey 🌈

❓ Tell us how you use Django.
🧠 Inform the Django ecosystem and DSF to make great decisions.
🔁 Re-share with your communities.
🏁 All survey results are published after the survey closes.

https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/md-django-developers-survey-2026

#Django

I am very happy with GoToSocial. Collaborative blocklists are a great feature, and for a single user instance, the footprint is a lot lower than my Mastodon instance.

At this point, barring anything zany, I am planning on migrating @vkc over to this account sometime in the coming weeks.

GitLab is pivoting to "the agentic era."

If you can afford it, donate to Codeberg. Right now.

https://docs.codeberg.org/improving-codeberg/donate/

"AI" is going to do to humanities jobs what big box stores did to local shops: kill them dead, then make them more valued than ever before.

Buying local is now a cri de coeur.

The beige experience of buying Targetified objects with no real origin but almost Amazon-level branding incoherence is considered low-key trauma, endured only for the most basic of the basics.

Hand-made things are huge; thrifting and re-use are surging; quality and longevity is Queen, and worth saving up to buy

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Out of the eight new #curl CVEs, four of them had existed in code for over twenty years when we published.

CVE-2026-5545 clocks in at 22.75 years old

CVE-2026-7168 at 21.91 years

CVE-2026-6429 at 20.95 years

CVE-2026-6253 at 20.66 years

And yet CVE-2026-5545 only becomes the 5th oldest vulnerability ever found in curl so far.

🎶 National Library Week is wrapping up.

Hear from WNYC’s Simon Close on how libraries help power the Public Song Project. From public domain books to music, archives, and even recording spaces, your local library is a hub for creativity and discovery.

Submit your song by May 10 👉 https://www.wnyc.org/story/2026-public-song-project/

#WNYC #PublicSongProject @internetarchive