Profile

🚀 Django 6.0 is out! This is a super exciting new release, introducing the tasks framework, template partials, Content Security Policy support, improved email handling, and lots more! Here are my annotated and expanded highlights from the release notes:

Django: what’s new in 6.0 - Adam Johnson

#Django

🐎 Django-related deals for Black Friday 🐎 Divert from the typical shopping frenzy to check out these deals from Django-related creators to help you learn and use the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

Django-related Deals for Black Friday 2025 - Adam Johnson

#Django #Python #BlackFriday

🚀 Yesterday, I released version 1.2.0 of my new package, django-http-compression. It includes a big change to only apply compression to known-compressible content types, like HTML or JSON, copying the behaviour of servers like Caddy or CloudFlare. This change saves CPU cycles by not trying to compress binary formats that are typically already compressed, like images or zipfiles.

GitHub

django-http-compression/CHANGELOG.rst at main · adamchainz/django-http-compression

Django middleware for compressing HTTP responses with Zstandard, Brotli, or Gzip. - adamchainz/django-http-compression

#Django

Give this a go to help guide the future of the web!

Mastodon

FirefoxDevTools (@FirefoxDevTools@mastodon.social)

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most. So, here's a web app where...

Haha, it turns out the LLM test SWE-Bench uses Django, and agents have been caught solving a bug fix by using git log to copy what @npub1qav9...xu3f did! 😂

GitHub

Repo State Loopholes During Agentic Evaluation · Issue #465 · SWE-bench/SWE-bench

We've identified multiple loopholes with SWE Bench Verified where agents may look at future repository state (by querying it directly or through a ...

#Django #AI