Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.

A week ago, I wrote about how Generative and Agentic AI may be amplifying what I’ve been calling cognitive debt: the accumulated gap between a system’s evolving structure and a team’s shared unders...

Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.

Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns

Use the :heading pseudo-class to style all headings (h1-h6) with a single CSS rule. Reduce repetition in design systems and component libraries while maintaining consistency.

Fast, Python-based infrastructure automation. Deploy to SSH servers, Docker, and local machines. 10x faster than Ansible.

Posted by Natalia Bidart on Dec. 3, 2025

Django 6.0 was released today, starting another release cycle for the loved and long-lived Python web framework (now 20 years old!). It comes with a mosaic of new features, contributed to by many, som...

:envelope: :white_check_mark: no more invalid or disposable emails in your database. - GitHub - fabiocaccamo/django-email-validators: :envelope: no more invalid or disposable emails in your database.

The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

Log4Shell proved that open source security isn't guaranteed and isn’t just a code problem.

Comparing the Django ORM support across official database backends, so you don’t have to learn it the hard way.

Fluid responsive design

Our popular Learn CSS course has been updated with new modules covering the latest CSS features.

Django’s generic class-based views often clash with the Zen of Python. Here’s why the base View class feels more Pythonic.

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Lockfiles are an absolutely unnecessary concept that complicates things without a good reason. Dependency managers can and are working without it just the same.

Within Django’s popular admin site, you can override ModelAdmin.get_queryset() to customize the queryset used by the admin views. It’s often used for performance optimizations, such as adding a select...

SQLModel is a library that lets you interact with databases through Python code with Python objects and type annotations instead of writing direct SQL queries.

Thanks to JSON module scripts and import attributes, you can now directly import JSON in JavaScript modules. Both features are now Baseline Newly available.

Posted by The Fellowship Working Group on June 9, 2025

I’ve often seen a GitHub Actions workflow defined with a trigger like:

Introducing ActionSerializerModelViewSet, a ViewSet that allows you to choose a serializer for each action and method combination.

Some history on term “technical debt” and on better language to use when communicating about it.

One of the most perplexing and befuddling things in CSS for me, for many years, was the behaviour of percentage-based heights. Sometimes, seemingly at random, setting “height: 100%” would have no effe...

A simple tool to transform an SVG shape into a CSS shape. Get a modern and optimized code in no time!.

Unveiling MCP: The groundbreaking protocol transforming AI connectivity, empowering businesses with revolutionary agent interactions and unprecedented workflow capabilities.

GitHub Copilot has a new feature: a coding agent that can implement a task or issue, run in the background with GitHub Actions, and more.

Posted by Emma Delescolle on April 26, 2025

When you want your images to look good in Markdown on GitHub, you might have to adjust for the UI around them.

Everything that has changed since the RFC post for this feature.

Django 5.2 was released last Wednesday, another exciting step forward for our favourite web framework. It comes with a composite of new features, contributed to by many, some of which I am happy to ha...

I have met a lot of developers in my life. Late…

Welcome to the second post in a subscriber-only series on finding your market, and niche, in the software. In case you missed it, part one was a high-level...

Chrome is currently prototyping CSS Functions, which is very exciting!

To help clarify these common challenges, I'll show how I typically set up Python projects and organise package structures using the Python package and

Open source software is worth trillions to the economy. However, researchers warn that companies contribute too little to the development of open source tools.

Some thoughts and opinions about AI. In a stretch, I compare AI to automobiles.

In this article, we'll look at the differences between Django QuerySet's defer, only, and exclude methods.

Easily distinguish between direct and transitive dependencies for npm packages

A compendium of themes for the Django admin (with screenshots!) - adamghill/awesome-django-admin-themes

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