hey everyone,

you may have guessed reading between the lines, but I lost my job in the recent tech layoffs…

also burnt out and realised I need to go back to working on stuff I care about.

I hope to gather enough small monthly sponsors to at least cover the bills, so I can:

- 🖥️ create beautiful apps for #Linux / #GNOME

- ✏️ provide free #design support to #OpenSource projects

if you like my work, please consider $1/month to make this possible?

thank you. :)

https://github.com/sponsors/hbons

It's somewhat amusing that you can pass yourself off as a Russia expert commenting on this "peace deal" as messy but at least "a way to end the war" without realising Kremlin sees it as just a tactic to continue it later.

It will end nothing.

I wish more software engineering leaders remembered that typing out the code was never the hard part.

Typing out the right code. That was the hard part.

AI doesn't help with that. AI tools will happily:
- generate 5k line functions
- install 100 packages to handle something built into a language
- optimize for non-bottlenecks
- write 10x tests for the same 5 functions and leave most untested

AI is cool, but you still need brain on, so your AI buddy doesn't walk you into a dead end.

It's been a month since I've been without $job, but that doesn't mean I was lazy 😅 I used this time to prepare a lot of changes to Django 💚 including some old feature requests like database-level delete options and decimal fields with no precision, as well as fixing 15+ years old bugs 🐛 I'm still on the market! Do you need help with your Python/Django app? 🆘 Contact me 📬

#opentowork #python #django

https://github.com/django/django/issues?q=is%3Apr%20state%3Aopen%20author%3Afelixxm%20created%3A%3E2025-09-30