🎉 I hadn't kept up with what Django's Steering Council had been up to outside of random board updates, and I'm happy to share how impressed I am with how transparent they are. They are meeting several times a month and sharing their minutes as they go.

GitHub

GitHub - django/steering-council: Meeting notes of the Django Steering Council

Meeting notes of the Django Steering Council. Contribute to django/steering-council development by creating an account on GitHub.

They are even sharing on the Django Forum to bring more visibility to what they are doing

Django Forum

Django Steering Council Meetings - 2025

👋 Hi everyone! The Steering Council has been meeting on a regular basis since the start of 2025. We’re working on finding the best ways to co...

These are very welcoming changes. 👏👏 #Django #Python

Times I have been asked if I have tried Omarchy today? 3 Times I have tried it: 1 Times I have installed a Linux Desktop only to discover that Linux might work on a desktop, but it still sucks: every time and going back to the late 90s. No hate, but just because someone discovers a tiling windows manager is cool, but it's hardly something to write home about.

🤔 What's with all the framework (non-laptop) hate lately? 🤷 Just because React is overkill for most projects, doesn't mean all frameworks are bad. If your default reaction to someone using a framework is that the underline technology isn't that hard, and they should just suck it up, then you have exceeded your gatekeeping quota for the year. Which should be zero, btw. 0️⃣ That's spelled ZERO.

It's SOOOO... CLOSE.... The Django DEP 💯 (PR number) is so close to be accepted. The goal of this DEP is to shorten Django's default cli command from `django-admin` to `django`.

GitHub

Add django command by ryanhiebert · Pull Request #100 · django/deps

Motivated by a desire to remove confusing papercuts in Django and to follow common convention in the Python ecosystem, this DEP proposes to add a n...

Back story:

🤔 Rethinking Django's Command-Line Tool: Why We Should Rename `django-admin`

Django has been a key tool for Python web developers for many years. But as new frameworks like FastAPI become prevalent, it’s important to e...

#Django

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daniel:// stenberg:// (@bagder@mastodon.social)

Joshua Rogers sent us a *massive* list of potential issues in #curl that he found using his set of AI assisted tools. Code analyzer style nits all ...

It's refreshing to see someone knowledgeable use AI assisted tools to find more than 70 bug fixes for the Curl project. Daniel has been transparent about his struggles managing the project because of bad AI usage, so this isn't coming from someone who hasn't seen it all. Please read Daniel's 🧵 View quoted note →

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Django News (@djangonews@mastodon.social)

Django security releases issued: 5.2.7, 5.1.13, and 4.2.25 https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/oct/01/security-releases/

Just a reminder that @npub1qsd5...3jep is a great way to get the latest @npub1l0ck...kt92 security releases and other details, often hours before they appear elsewhere. #python #django #security View quoted note →

It’s wild how **Django** has become an implicit standard in LLM benchmarks. Even when companies are not building in Django, they use it to measure AI code performance. In **SWE-Bench Verified**, over **40% of the tasks come from the Django codebase** — but the benchmark focuses on tiny edits (median ~4 LOC), not the real complexity of maintaining production software. 👉 [Read the analysis](

nilenso blog

What are popular AI coding benchmarks actually measuring?

I dug into popular coding benchmarks while building StoryMachine, an experiment in breaking down software tasks into agent-executable units.

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I'm not sure why, but my brain seems to work well with bending LLMs. @npub1mjxs...httg told me that he couldn't get the word "VOTE" to appear in an image, and it only took two suggestions to get it working. My other suggestion was to have it spell it out via "V" "O" "T" "E", which I have had to use before to get some signs printed for our office once, and it was confused by "revsys". Anyways, enjoy:

William Vincent

ChatGPT Dark Arts: Make An Image with the Word 'Vote' In It - William Vincent

ChatGPT won't generate an image with the word 'vote' in it, unless you ask the right way.

What a shame, Omarchy looked appealing, and I lost all desire to want to install it after the last few weeks. What a liability.