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Teaching practical programming through real-world applications. Tweets by @MikeHerman and @JanGiacomelli.
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The best thing you can bring to the table is clarity. Even more so in the age of AI.
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Today’s read: why Uber moved from Postgres to MySQL.
Really interesting deep dive into the database internals and scaling problems that led to the decision.
For Uber, things like MVCC, replication, WAL, and write amplification became serious scaling challenges.
The interesting part is how they solved it.
One of those reads that makes you look at databases differently.
uber.com/in/en/blog/postgres…
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It's insane how people sleep on SQLite in production.
It's the absolute cheat-code. The fastest db money can buy. Infinitely scalable. All queries are 90% faster than a single roundtrip to Supabase. Literally unbeatable.
Why wouldn't you start every single app with SQLite?
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pytest Plugins That Actually Change How You Test in 2026 dev.to/peytongreen_dev/pytes…
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[PSF]Announcing the PSF Strategic Plan 2026
The plan adds security baseline and vulnerability-management objectives, expands accessibility to include translation and localization, and clarifies funding pathways and membership value and more. #djangonews
pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/09…
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Serve the Change Password Well-Known URL adamj.eu/tech/2026/09/16/dja…
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new post: the senior engineer death spiral
sunilpai.dev/posts/the-senio…
a friend just started a big job and asked for some advice. so I braindumped a monologue about a super common failure mode I see with engineers and posted it here, hope it helps whoever it can.
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Meet us in Riverside for DjangoCon US 2027!
📅 September 13–17, 2027
📍 Riverside, California
Five days of learning, inspiration, networking, and community.
Get your ticket: ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-202…
#DjangoConUS #Django #Python
TestDriven.io retweeted
A lot of software doesn’t need a rewrite.
It needs someone to delete 30% of it, remove two dependencies, rename the confusing bits and stop adding features for a month😂
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Call for Volunteers: Django Fundraising Working Group djangoproject.com/weblog/202…
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One of the worst things that AI has done in software is convinced low-skill individuals that software engineering is solved and is instantly producible. They then in turn project their unrealistic expectations onto others.
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Code review doesn't have to be your bottleneck
jangiacomelli.com/blog/alway…
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The better the tests, the faster you can ship. Even more so when agents are writing the code.
This course teaches you how to get to such tests
testdriven.io/courses/python…
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I highly recommend to read at least one technical blog per day or even per week ... the amount of depth you can get in your conversations with interviewer/friends/seniors solely from this highly appreciable
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Storing Django Static and Media Files on Cloudflare R2 bit.ly/467urvS
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Why OOP Exists mathspp.com/blog/why-oop-exi…
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Here is a great recap of DjangoCon 2026 if you missed it! dwayne-mcdaniel.com/blog/Dja…