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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

[…] There is so much money around open source, there is not a company out there that is not directly more profitable because they're using free software and yet very very few people actually are getting paid for their work on open source.’”

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

another quote from the same source, “T]he one that annoys me personally is Facebook buys Instagram for a billion dollars, and Instagram has not donated a cent or a line of code to #Django or to #Python which they built that on top of. […]

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

[…] and car payments and that sort of stuff, so I had to do like double work one out of a feeling of obligation and one out of a feeling of like, we live in a capitalist society and I need money.’” -- from one of Jacob’s interviews, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqcu...

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Open Source & Feelings 2015 - What Part of "... for Life" Don't You Understand? by Jacob Kaplan-Moss

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Excellent #FOSDEM talk about burnout in open source by @mirandaheath.website. She quotes @django co-creator and Board member @jacobian.org “I wasn't getting paid to do the work that I felt like I had to do, and I had to do the work that I was getting paid to do because like mortgages and bills […]

Miranda on stage next to a slide about Workload and time commitment

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Do we have any #Django users of llms.txt / docs-focused MCP servers here? I’m interested to know what people are doing in this space and which tools work well

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Mia Bajić @clytaemnestra.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

What does digital sustainability really mean? Is it about rewriting everything in Rust? Check out the full episode with @thibaudcolas.bsky.social on YT and all podcast platforms! youtu.be/t4B11C2oGNc

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 19/11/2025

Yesterday all of my sites were down. I could have brought them back up by changing one flag in a dashboard, but the dashboard was also down. So I just made sure I'm better prepared if this happens again. Little guide if you want to do the same: www.coryzue.com/writing/clou...

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How to disable CloudFlare proxying when you can't access the dashboard

Just in case, you know, CloudFlare goes down or something...

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Tentative plans for the next two #WagailCMS release, now ready for review ✨ github.com/wagtail/rfcs... - Autosave MVP - Block settings - Model search improvements - llms.txt for Wagtail docs - AI checker concepts - Independent security audit - Package maintainers guide - Natural language search

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RFC 111: v7.3* roadmap updates by thibaudcolas · Pull Request #111 · wagtail/rfcs

Wagtail 7.2 is out! :) 🚂. Starting for the next release now: View the RFC in HTML. Once reviewed with enough feedback and approved by the core team, those changes will go live on the Wagtail Roadma...

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Django @djangoproject.com · 11/11/2025

Django runs on community power—and it needs yours! 💚 We are extending the fundraiser until November 19 to give you another chance to support Django and get a powerful tool for yourself. Get 30% off PyCharm Pro, and JetBrains will donate 100% of your payment to @djangoproject.com 👉 jb.gg/yw1huf

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

TL;DR; rewrite it in #Rust! 😛 Just kidding, there are lots of things we can do as #Django / #Python tech people to build leaner. More nuance coming up in the full podcast

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Wagtail @wagtail.org · 05/11/2025

Wagtail 7.2 is out now! We have a totally revamped search backend, readability checks, and more! See all the great things you can do with Wagtail 7.2 in our release blog. wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...

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A new approach to search and more in Wagtail 7.2 | Wagtail CMS

With fully revamped search, readability checks, and more, this is a collection of new features you don't want to miss

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

This is just from the books3 dataset (included in The Pile). obvs goes well beyond this dataset, it’s just unique because we can name exactly which torrented books were part of training data [3/3]

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

And more! - Beginning django CMS - Django By Example - Django Design Patterns and Best Practices - Django: Web Development with Python - Learning Django Web Development - Mastering Django: Core - Pro Django [2/3]

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Taking a look at the list of #Django books confirmed to be used in AI training… 5013 pages across 12 books 🥲 - Lightweight Django - Web dev with Django Cookbook - Django Project Blueprints - Building Django 2.0 Web Applications - Beginning Django: Web app dev and Deployment with Python [1/3]

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"As you can see this admin UI is… brutally developer-focused" 🤣 @tomd.org at #WagtailSpace talking about Mux, the "ffmpeg in the cloud"

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Hope #WagtailSpace attendees liked my presentation! Recording is available already if you register at wagtail.org/wagtail-spac.... Slides are here: wagtail.org/sow

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Is it a new thing that macOS "find and select text in images" also makes that text available… for the VoiceOver screen reader. That’s an #accessibility feature right, not a bug? Spotted on the @wagtail homepage video: wagtail.org

Screenshot of Safari VoiceOver interface with "Meet" highlighted on a video player with word "Meet Wagtail"

Screenshot of Safari Elements panel with shadow DOM HTML for video element

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Ooh @usher.dev @laymonage.com there’s a little story right there via the commit activity graphs!

wagtail-ai vs django-ai-core contribution graphs in GitHub, showing a spike in wagtail-ai followed by slowdown, while django-ai-core has a spike starting right after

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Anyone up for helping Tom and I run the 2026 DSF Board elections? forum.djangoproject.com/t/preparatio... No one’s volunteered for this yet, which I’ll take it to mean you all trust us to do a great job 😛 feedback would be nice though!

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Preparations for 2026 DSF Board elections

👋 we’re preparing for the next Board elections of the Django Software Foundation and we could use help! Our plans We will run the elections of the 2026 Board of Directors over the next three…

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Wagtail @wagtail.org · 25/09/2025

Heads’up – we have new guidance for AI-led contributions from our core team: wagtail.org/blog/guidanc... TL;DR; let us know how AI is involved in PRs with a disclaimer!

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Guidance for AI-led contributions | Wagtail CMS

New contributor guidelines in the generative AI age

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

OH @laymonage.com "I wish I could npm install wagtail" 💥 at the @torchbox tech day

Sage on stage with a slide "Wagtail UI for U and I … and AI

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Another option I’ve seen occasionally is "ask people to run your analysis script on their projects and share results". Yet another type of bias in the data so not suitable for much of anything. Anyway, I think "top 8000 PyPI" is a pretty good pick for this specific analysis! ⭐️ ty for the context

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

re corporate codebases, I guess the simplest I’d have thought is open source code on GitHub? Select repos on GitHub based on number of stars or activity levels. I have a small dataset of @wagtail.org projects for that reason.

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

ty! yeah my assumption is packages probs have more scrutiny on avg than apps, so probs if your analysis shows a clear enough problem with top packages, it’d only be worse with other packages, and with apps? No hard data to validate my assumption but seems intuitive enough.

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I really liked your talk, hope it’s ok to ask a bonus question! I wanted to ask how/why you selected the code of the "top 8000 PyPI packages" as a dataset to analyze? Why PyPI packages and why top 8000? Feels valid but skewed towards packages, and specifically ones that have more scrutiny than avg

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

one of the questions Jake got started with "this isn’t a question more of a comment" 💯💥 someone knows what they’re doing

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Oh noes, @theorangeone.net is at it again, tricking Django at the @torchbox.com tech day 💥

Jake on stage next to a slide titled "Tricking Django"

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

“I’ve spent hours troubleshooting issues. It’s always DNS” 🤣 Jayrup at #PyConUK on self-hosting jayrup.me

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Django @djangoproject.com · 20/09/2025

Our Django tasks contributor @theorangeone.net on stage at #PyConUK dives into some of the low-level design choices in the upcoming tasks support in Django 6.0 ⭐️

Jake on stage with a slide about threads

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · 20/09/2025

My @pyconuk.org talk is done! 🥳 Now I can enjoy the rest of the conference! (Slides and recording to follow)

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Feud starting on who has the best stickers at #PyConUK - Becky says it’s Django Girls 💥

Becky on stage introducing day two, with a Young Coders Day slide

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Today I’m at #PyConUK 🐝 I’d love to chat about AI challenges, environmental impact of tech, accessibility in the Python world. Bonus points for all three in the same convo. Come say hi! I’ll be wearing a hoodie with pineapples 🍍

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

With our flagship Wagtail Space event coming up soon (wagtail.org/wagtail-spac...), this is the best time to get involved with Wagtail!. Looking forward to the crossover Djangonaut Space @ Wagtail Space 🤯

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Wagtail Space 2025 | Wagtail CMS

Wagtail Space is a a free, flexible, three-day virtual event for people who are improving the world through code and content.

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

was fun doing that with others! ☺️

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Now I know we definitely need nanowagtail! #DjangoConUS

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Finally got my tickets for #PyConUK! See you soon in Manchester 🇬🇧 We’ll have a Django booth and work on Django during the sprints. Oh and I’m bringing a whole army of Django pony stickers 👀

Close-up of train tickets on a table, and piles of stickers, with a design of a winged Djangi pony holding a cake

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

PSF board elections: voted 🗳️ ✅ This is super important. With the Django Software Foundation, we work with the PSF all 👏 the 👏 time 👏, they feel like colleagues!

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Wagtail @wagtail.org · 27/08/2025

Our #GSoC2025 contributor @joelwilliam2005.bsky.social tells the story of his Media listings UX improvements project ⭐️ wagtail.org/blog/media-l... Five long-requested changes shipped, with support from our core contributors Coen van der Kamp, @laymonage.com, @thibaudcolas.bsky.social, Ben Enright!

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Media listings UX improvements via Google Summer of Code 2025 | Wagtail CMS

Enhancing the user experience of Wagtail’s media listings over the summer

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Daniel D. Beck @ddbeck.com · 21/08/2025

On August 27, @emckean.bsky.social and I are presenting at Open Source Summit Europe about resources that can help open source maintainers create and maintain docs. I'm looking forward to it (or at least I will be, when I've practiced my outline a few more times). sched.co/25Vub

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Open Source Summit Europe 2025: OSS Documentation Workshop - Erin McKean...

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Thibaud Colas @thibaudcolas.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

🤔 it’s very interesting how many talk proposals we got in the "Wagtail as a framework" space. Is @wagtail.org turning from CMS to framework like #Django did? (for wagtail.org/wagtail-spac...)

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Wagtail Space 2025 | Wagtail CMS

Wagtail Space is a a free, flexible, three-day virtual event for people who are improving the world through code and content.

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