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The Illusion of Progress: Why AI Still Can't Replace Human Programmers

May 1, 2025 » Josh Karamuth » [Archived Version]

AI still can't replace programmers—it only handles trivial code well while complex systems require human expertise.

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Reflecting on Djangonaut Space Session 4

April 30, 2025 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

How Djangonaut Space has expanded my worldview and created meaningful global connections.

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Don't use upper bound pins

April 28, 2025 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]

Quoting Richard Si From the post on What's new in pip 25.1 - Dependency groups!, a footnote on improvements to Pip's dependency resolution: Please don’t add upper bounds unless you know for a fact your codebase is incompatible with the newer versions. Pre-emptive upper-bounds will not help dependency resolution and are generally considered harmful. Nice to have an authoritative something to link to when trying to make this case to package maintainers.

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New Features GitHub repo and project

April 26, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Django is experimenting with a new GitHub repository specifically designed to manage feature ideas and their progression. This is a significant shift away from the previous process of posting those to the forum. Introducing the Django Features Repository The Django Steering Council has launched a new GitHub repository, django/new-features dedicated to managing feature requests and ideas. This repository works in conjunction with a GitHub project to provide more efficient tracking of feature ide…

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Django News - Revamp Your Django Admin and Supercharge Search - Apr 25th 2025

April 25, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News See you at PyCon US in Pittsburgh! Django invites community members to visit and volunteer at its PyCon US 2025 booth in Pittsburgh for stickers and project engagement. djangoproject.com 2025 PSF Board Election Schedule Change Starting in 2025, PSF will move board election timelines to August and September to relieve PyCon US planning pressures and give candidates more campaign time. blogspot.com Django Software Founda…

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DjangoCon Europe 2025

April 24, 2025 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

DjangoCon Europe is an international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in Europe.

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DjangoCon Europe 2025

April 22, 2025 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

DjangoCon Europe is an international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in Europe.

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How to Add Blazing Fast Search to Your Django Site with Meilisearch

April 21, 2025 » REVSYS Blog » [Archived Version]

How to Add Blazing Fast Search to Your Django Site with Meilisearch

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Django: deleting a large queryset may lead to high memory usage

April 20, 2025 » Thomas Loiret - Random thoughts » [Archived Version]

Calling .delete() on a queryset matching a large number of objects may lead to high memory usage.

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Django Admin Theme Roundup 2025

April 18, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

One of Django’s most appreciated features is the built-in admin functionality. In fact, it was ranked as the most useful contrib app in the 2023 Django developer survey. With a few lines of code, Django automatically generates an administrative interface to add, update, and edit objects in your database. While it's not meant to replace a full-featured frontend, the admin makes rapid prototyping possible and provides a lot of functionality out of the box. However, the admin’s focus is not on a …

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