Notices by Jeff Triplett (webology@mastodon.social)

@ericholscher @carlton @maxine I feel for people thinking they can just self-host and everything will sort itself out.

While I think companies can spring up like they did for hosting Mastodon, even that's one heck of a barrier for the average dev.

Then I fear we have 1000s or 10s of 1000s of these unpatched servers in the wild.

@carlton @ericholscher @maxine Sure, but that doesn't mean it's not a real concern.

I have run my own Forgejo for a few years, and I know what it costs me a month to keep https://djangopackages.org up, and it's not free or even particularly easy. I mostly know what I'm doing, so it's fine. 😬

The average dev, won't know, and as Eric pointed out, it's a hostile world out there. ☕

None of that means we shouldn't have these conversations, and maybe something will sprout from them.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@manualdousuario/116012882385058951

I'd avoid MoltBook completely, but OpenClaw is useful.

If you are doing anything useful with LLMs, run a local OpenClaw instance or put it on an old machine.

I have mine giving me daily briefings and tracking todos for me. I can see the weather, tips on how to dress the kids, track school events, birthdays, important upcoming events, and a ton of small details I have always wanted.

I don't think it's doing anything; all operating systems won't have the option of doing for you in five years.

@manualdousuario, sadly, they can't be achieved without it. I don't want a bullet list with a ton of templating to make it kind of readable. I respectfully disagree about the rest. There are too many studies pushing back on previous studies that greatly overstated the usage compared to streaming video and non-tech sectors that can actually move the needle.

I would love to see a better REST story going forward too, which Emma alludes to.

While the web world pendulum is going to sway between client and server side rendering for the foreseeable future, it's a good excuse to have some underline opinions and emit JSON or some other serializable format along with some more RESTful http verbs.

🤔 I have been sitting on Emma's Django Admin Deux article all day and I think it's super cool.

I struggled with it at first out of fear of how different the examples looked compared to the existing Admin code which IMO should continue to just work.

Seeing "7. Familiar Django Admin Patterns" really took the edge off for me, and it seems like once complete, we might have the best shot at expending the Django Admin another decade or two.

https://emma.has-a.blog/articles/django-admin-deux-bringing-admin-back-to-django.html

#Django #Python

@simon This is super cool. I have been experimenting with something similar mostly by piping the same text prompt into different `claude -p` sessions. Although I bet codex's cli probably works better for this.

I have been mostly using this to add new deps, update docker containers, and other fiddly bits.

It feels sort-of like un-versioned migration files which hasn't quite sat right with me yet.

📺 DjangoCon US 2025 videos are up 🎉

This also caps off a week's worth of updates on DjangoTV, including the dreaded, very random 153 errors, which should finally be gone.

https://djangotv.com/videos/djangocon-us/2025/

#DjangoConUS #DjangoCon #Django #Python

@carlton I haven't looked at this one yet, but the more you work with Agents, the more it stands out what's missing in Python today.

@carlton @djangonews Tomorrow. By this time every week, we rarely have much on it.

I bet our "Updates to Django" contributors wonder if this is the week we ship a blank newsletter with only their update 🤣

@simon It's the year of MCP....

https://mastodon.social/@webology/114223252783320706

@brettcannon @pauleveritt congrats!

When can I use it?

Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie.

✨ So @justin did everyone a solid and wrote "Any Updates?"

If you are an open-source maintainer and dealing with "Any Updates?" comments on issues, you can now copy and paste the url to Justin's article, and no other reply is needed.

https://justinmayer.com/posts/any-updates/

https://mastodon.social/@justin@ramble.space/114223316349198309

I have hated LastPass for over a decade, but we have entered a new era.

🤔 Storing your passwords as a Google doc that you print into a PDF and share with your entire company is more secure than using LastPass levels of bad.

Do NOT use LastPass.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/feds-link-150m-cyberheist-to-2022-lastpass-hacks/

🤔 This aged well.

https://micro.webology.dev/2024/07/14/why-i-deleted-firefox-from/

@baconandcoconut What do you mean, "close all the tabs?"

I thought they grew until the browser crashes then you get to start over.

@ehmatthes @kattni I really enjoyed not having to commit to anything outside of inviting people out for pierogies which I did a lack luster job of. 😄

@CodenameTim If you already have Django running, then you have solved most of these.

I think about privacy, too.

Do you trust Google and someone managing share permissions who might accidentally be making the data public over a system you can control?

Google trains on any data that's marked as public, accidentally or not.

🤷 Why do the Django and Python communities use so many Google Forms?

https://micro.webology.dev/2024/12/17/why-do-the.html

🗳️ If you haven't voted yet in the DSF's Steering Council election, and *you can vote* then please do that Monday or Tuesday. By Wednesday, it will be too late.

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/dec/10/django-6x-steering-council-candidates/